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Laughs in 20 year old ULEZ compliant 3dr 1.1l petrol car.
What's that? I thought a petrol car needed to be 2006 or newer?
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What's that? I thought a petrol car needed to be 2006 or newer?
If the (petrol) car is 2006 or newer it's pretty much guaranteed to be ULEZ compliant because cars manufactured after that date would have satisfied certain emissions limits, but that doesn't stop older cars happening to be compliant. It's about emissions not just the age of the vehicle.
It's a 2001 Citroen Saxo 1.1L
The car also happily runs on E10 petrol, which is no great surprise as the French have used that for far longer than we have. I know someone who's having problems with their 2011 car now that the UK has switched to E10 petrol.
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The main problem is that you can't really squeeze the majority of people that own the big stupid cars.
For many people in the big £2m+ houses near me (in the SW London bubble) the monthly payments on a £60k wankpanzer are just a rounding error in their monthly household accounts. You could treble fuel duty, VED, etc and it wouldn't change their behaviour one bit. They'd probably vote for a party that proposed that as it would price huge numbers of people in littler cars off the roads.
(Laughs in 20 year old ULEZ compliant 3dr 1.1l petrol car.)