Thirsty, non ULEZ bargains?

[vexed]

Are non ULEZ cars going to be coming down in price? I do a fairly low milage in my daily driver and am in a rural county, so ULEZ and economy aren't particularly important to me. Is now a good time to be shopping?
Personally I'm after a big engined car with a big boot sub 8k- currently in a V90.

[Jamescrs]

I don't see why they will particularly in the current market, where everything is going up, there may be a small number of people around London who are thinking of ditching the thirsty barges but for most of the U.K is pretty much business as usual

[Trif]

I too am thinking along similar lines. I only really do about 40 personal miles a month so depreciation (or leasing costs currently) are a bigger concern then fuel. Got to be some owners 3L+ cars panic selling?

[georgeyboy12345]

Most non-ULEZ compliant cars are diesel, which are not so thirsty by virtue of them being diesel. Since you are doing low miles, a diesel doesn't really suit your needs. Petrol non-ULEZ cars tend to be really old, so they are usually pretty knackered.

Having a look on autotrader, none of them seem to be particular bargains either, prices are high pretty much across the board. Here's some stuff that caught my interest

Subaru Legacy H6
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202203294...


Mercedes E500
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202109067...


BMW E60 535d Touring
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202202102...


BMW E39 530i Touring
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202202022...


Vauxhall Vectra 3.0 CDTi V6 24v Elite
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202012307...


Lexus IS300 Sportcross
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202201181...


Or, take a whole prescriptions worth of brave pills and get this Lamborghini engined Audi S6 Avant
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202203304...

Edited by georgeyboy12345 on Thursday 31st March 22:04

[jagot]

georgeyboy12345 said:

Most non-ULEZ compliant cars are diesel, which are not so thirsty by virtue of them being diesel. Since you are doing low miles, a diesel doesn't really suit your needs. Petrol non-ULEZ cars tend to be really old, so they are usually pretty knackered.

Having a look on autotrader, none of them seem to be particular bargains either, prices are high pretty much across the board. Here's some stuff that caught my interest

Subaru Legacy H6
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202203294...


Mercedes E500
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202109067...


BMW E60 535d Touring
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202202102...


BMW E39 530i Touring
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202202022...


Vauxhall Vectra 3.0 CDTi V6 24v Elite
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202012307...


Lexus IS300 Sportcross
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202201181...


Or, take a whole prescriptions worth of brave pills and get this Lamborghini engined Audi S6 Avant
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202203304...

Edited by georgeyboy12345 on Thursday 31st March 22:04

All of those petrols except for the Subaru are ULEZ compliant - not sure if you meant for that to be the case

[Roger Irrelevant]

It gets a lot of attention on here but for the vast majority of the UK population the ULEZ is utterly irrelevant so it's not going to have any great impact on prices. Case in point - my XC70 D5 is Euro 5 so I believe not ULEZ compliant. However despite being three years older and having done circa 45,000 miles more than when I bought it, it would retail for about the same today as I paid for it back then. If fuel prices stay as they are that's a different matter though; I've said on another thread that powering a 2-ton family barge with a petrol engine (which has become popular in recent years because diesel is now evil), might not be so appealing at £1.70 per litre...