Something interesting under 50 g/km C02

[Jonathan-pnibs]

I have started working for a new company that has a policy where you only receive a car allowance if you drive a vehicle emitting less than 50 g/km CO2.

I currently own a beautiful Emerald Green 272bhp 4x4 Skoda Superb Estate in the top spec, L&K. It has everything you could ever want and more.

Frustratingly, I only bought it about 4 months ago for £30k (over the odds, but I wanted to keep it for the long term), and I have received a PX value of £18k and a Motorway valuation of £20,850.

I can stretch to about an £8k top-up, so I should have about £29k for the new car.

The simple choice is the Skoda Superb plug-in hybrid, but I wonder if anyone has any other suggestions? I have owned a V90 T8 in the past and did not like the R-Design seats but would consider an Inscription model, though I'm struggling to find one with reasonable miles within my budget. I am reluctant to go fully electric as it seems like the used prices are dropping even quicker than my current car has.

The final option I have is to sell up and take a company car. It's electric only and offers a fairly limited choice, but I could get a RWD Polestar or Model Y for about £35 per month, along with the loss of my £6k car allowance.

A couple of requirements that the car must have: a boot large enough for a Labrador-sized dog (so it must be a hatch type), adaptive cruise control, and Android Auto. Some nice-to-haves are a heated windscreen and a sunroof.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[Mabozza]

is it a very generous car allowance to justify such a stipulation?

Why should you be taking a £10k hit?

[BoRED S2upid]

BMW i3 is quite cool looking IMO.

[esuuv]

So you're going to take a 10k hit, and invest another 8k - so 18k in all, to get a 6k p/a car allowance?

Maybe keep the Skoda and look again in 3 years?

[ZX10R NIN]

Your maths is upside down, keep what you've got & forego the allowance.

[Jonathan-pnibs]

Yeah I hadn't really considered that as an option.

I suppose because it feels like if I am going to do that, I would be better off taking an electric company car, selling the Skoda and putting the money in the bank. The tax and insurance alone are more than the £35 per month I would pay in BIK.

But I also like owning my own car... less concerned about the dog and kid making it a mess.

[Vsix and Vtec]

If this was to justify getting into a sports car I'd get it, but you're literally man-mathing your way into a worse car. I think I'd be ignoring the company car option and keeping the skoda until something prohibitive breaks.

[MrGTI6]

Definitely keep the Skoda. Otherwise you're chucking loads of money down the drain only to end up with something worse.

[soad]

ZX10R NIN said:

Your maths is upside down, keep what you've got & forego the allowance.

This.

[Mr E]

If you don’t take the allowance, what car do they give you?

Could you take the cheapest thing they have, use it as a second car and keep the skoda?

Do you need to do lots of miles for work?

Edited by Mr E on Saturday 18th November 21:59