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I'm in the fix an older car camp. Mines Euro 2, wifes was euro 5 and actually ran clean and perfect. Both are banned from ULEZ areas or hefty fines. Eyeing up buying a Euro 6 for 2 years now, but prices keep increasing/ choice decreasing, so have said pap it, we don't have to drive in the ULEZ area so just won't, at least we have the luxury of that option.
IMO on newly built but cleaner at the exhaust end of it for those around where the vehicle is being driven, great, but for those often in lower/middle income regions that are producing the raw materials, manufacturing and then shipping out these newer vehicles, they are paying a higher price with their health, for the benefit of our health. Does that make sense?
We also don't do enough/ regularly predictable miles to warrant a new or nearly new car. Our annual per vehicle is 5-45k per annum, try getting a lease that has that kind of variation in it
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I might have misremembered but I think this BBC programme concluded that buying a new electric car was better than a new petrol car if you owned it for a long time, but ultimately better to buy/fix an older car
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00162yr
I could be wrong though, I'm pretty tired right now - it was very interesting regardless.