Petrol vans - making a comeback?
Discussion
hairyben said:
But yeah have the same dilemma here - need to replace my 10 year old PoS Vito but want something that'll give me 10 years and the current options are diesel, diesel and diesel, which is being banned and penalised as we speak - London boroughs are even gouging diesel penalty tariffs on p&d parking now!
See my post on the previous page. A 2.0 petrol Transit is your friend!ChemicalChaos said:
See my post on the previous page. A 2.0 petrol Transit is your friend!
There's nothing new is there though - its all 10+ year old knackers.Annoyingly the Vito was brand new 10 years ago - if I'd known the lpg loophole was here to stay I'd have bought that instead but thought they'd probably close it.
ChemicalChaos said:
Are you looking to buy brand new? A quick Wikipedia check suggests the current Connect comes with Ecoboost Petrol, there is a new PHEV Transit Custom, and the full size Transit can be had with a 2.3 Duratec
I've got my eye on the phev custom which is yet to be on sale but its still diesel-electric. Who knows if that'll be banned anyway in a few years.Edited by ChemicalChaos on Sunday 31st December 19:16
Shame I need a van to carry tools and not something suitably ostentatious to drive a spoilt kid a mile to private school though, dozens of options for these essential urban operations....
hairyben said:
We had a lot of 1.4 astra and combi and (Essex?) engined transits of late 90s vintage on the leccy board when I joined... They seemed up to the incessant thrashing that was dealt them.
Were so much nicer than the insipid Isuzu 1.7d vaux and ldv cr@p that replaced them... Mind I'd rather bicycle than ever drive a sherpa again.
But yeah have the same dilemma here - need to replace my 10 year old PoS Vito but want something that'll give me 10 years and the current options are diesel, diesel and diesel, which is being banned and penalised as we speak - London boroughs are even gouging diesel penalty tariffs on p&d parking now!
where is a new, euro6 diesel van penalised?Were so much nicer than the insipid Isuzu 1.7d vaux and ldv cr@p that replaced them... Mind I'd rather bicycle than ever drive a sherpa again.
But yeah have the same dilemma here - need to replace my 10 year old PoS Vito but want something that'll give me 10 years and the current options are diesel, diesel and diesel, which is being banned and penalised as we speak - London boroughs are even gouging diesel penalty tariffs on p&d parking now!
Jag_NE said:
where is a new, euro6 diesel van penalised?
London boroughs are charging extra for parking on diesel vans regardless of led zone rating.Anyway my new van will need fitout at least 5k+ and lots of hassle, and as the current one has 70k on the clock at 10 years old I'd rather keep it long term, rather than have to swap it in a few years because some prick has arbitrarily decided its propulsion system is now ranked uncool instead of cool. I know its terribly off-message of me to want to keep something long term instead of binning it every few years but heyho...
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