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But with a roof box and careful packing, we make it work.
i'm a travel light kind of guy, unfortunately the rest of my family are not! 😂
we can get 4x bikes on and a roofbox plus all the camping gear.our forester is an '06 plate petrol as well (also ULEZ compliant, but i don't live in london's famous london, and when we visit we use the train anyway)
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There is another option beyond modern eco car and giant dirty old diesel though - small old car with small petrol engine. We use our Fabia for weekend trips and camping too, with dog and toddler, and obviously a Forester would be much better suited to this task. But with a roof box and careful packing, we make it work.
It's a 1.4 litre, ULEZ compliant (Euro4), 182g/km CO2 and real world MPG of approx 40. So, much worse than its modern equivalent, but not exactly a climate or air quality destroyer either.
Obviously, whatever kind of car you have, the best thing for the planet is to use it less