Low BIK Hybrid.
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Good evening. My wife has landed a job which includes a company car. Normally there is a company car list where we pick the most suitable car with a BIK that suits us, but in this instance she has been told to go and pick any car she wants (within reason) and they will sort it out.
She’ll be doing plenty of miles so pure is electric is off the list. Full petrol or diesel don’t make sense from a BIK point of view so we are looking at plug in hybrids. We want something a bit bigger, ideally an estate but 7 seats might come in handy but not a deal breaker…. so thought I’d ask the masses in case there’s some bargains I missed.
The main driver I guess is the BIK%. We’ve looked at 3 series and 5 series 330e and 530e estates as they are both 11% in year 1. We’ve also looked at the Land Rover Discovery Sport as this is also 11% and ticks the 7 seats. We looked at the XC90 but as the list price is a good chunk higher and at 16% BIK we discounted this pretty quickly (fuel card BIK on this would also be a lot higher). Hopefully this gives you an idea of our thinking.
What have other people done in a similar situation? Without trawling every manufacturer websites is there some good wins in terms of lower BIKs than 11% I’m missing? What would your pick be?
Any thoughts or advice appreciated.
She’ll be doing plenty of miles so pure is electric is off the list. Full petrol or diesel don’t make sense from a BIK point of view so we are looking at plug in hybrids. We want something a bit bigger, ideally an estate but 7 seats might come in handy but not a deal breaker…. so thought I’d ask the masses in case there’s some bargains I missed.
The main driver I guess is the BIK%. We’ve looked at 3 series and 5 series 330e and 530e estates as they are both 11% in year 1. We’ve also looked at the Land Rover Discovery Sport as this is also 11% and ticks the 7 seats. We looked at the XC90 but as the list price is a good chunk higher and at 16% BIK we discounted this pretty quickly (fuel card BIK on this would also be a lot higher). Hopefully this gives you an idea of our thinking.
What have other people done in a similar situation? Without trawling every manufacturer websites is there some good wins in terms of lower BIKs than 11% I’m missing? What would your pick be?
Any thoughts or advice appreciated.
itz_baseline said:
Good evening. My wife has landed a job which includes a company car. Normally there is a company car list where we pick the most suitable car with a BIK that suits us, but in this instance she has been told to go and pick any car she wants (within reason) and they will sort it out.
She’ll be doing plenty of miles so pure is electric is off the list. Full petrol or diesel don’t make sense from a BIK point of view so we are looking at plug in hybrids. We want something a bit bigger, ideally an estate but 7 seats might come in handy but not a deal breaker…. so thought I’d ask the masses in case there’s some bargains I missed.
The main driver I guess is the BIK%. We’ve looked at 3 series and 5 series 330e and 530e estates as they are both 11% in year 1. We’ve also looked at the Land Rover Discovery Sport as this is also 11% and ticks the 7 seats. We looked at the XC90 but as the list price is a good chunk higher and at 16% BIK we discounted this pretty quickly (fuel card BIK on this would also be a lot higher). Hopefully this gives you an idea of our thinking.
What have other people done in a similar situation? Without trawling every manufacturer websites is there some good wins in terms of lower BIKs than 11% I’m missing? What would your pick be?
Any thoughts or advice appreciated.
This website might help you a bit? https://www.nextgreencar.com/company-car-tax/cars-... I guess you could click through the different percentages.She’ll be doing plenty of miles so pure is electric is off the list. Full petrol or diesel don’t make sense from a BIK point of view so we are looking at plug in hybrids. We want something a bit bigger, ideally an estate but 7 seats might come in handy but not a deal breaker…. so thought I’d ask the masses in case there’s some bargains I missed.
The main driver I guess is the BIK%. We’ve looked at 3 series and 5 series 330e and 530e estates as they are both 11% in year 1. We’ve also looked at the Land Rover Discovery Sport as this is also 11% and ticks the 7 seats. We looked at the XC90 but as the list price is a good chunk higher and at 16% BIK we discounted this pretty quickly (fuel card BIK on this would also be a lot higher). Hopefully this gives you an idea of our thinking.
What have other people done in a similar situation? Without trawling every manufacturer websites is there some good wins in terms of lower BIKs than 11% I’m missing? What would your pick be?
Any thoughts or advice appreciated.
Sc0tchland said:
This website might help you a bit? https://www.nextgreencar.com/company-car-tax/cars-... I guess you could click through the different percentages.
Perfect thanks, this is great as you can just search by BIK rate and already throwing up a few cars I hadn’t considered!Gassing Station | Car Buying | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff