The "what will/has the budget done to car values?" thread

[mr_spock]

I've been delaying buying a car, partly because I want to see if the Budget moves the price of cars much. Rumours so far:

• Diesels will be "hammered"
• Fuel escalator will be applied after many years of leaving it alone, or;
• Fuel escalator will be deferred again
• Hybrids/electric vehicles will be encouraged more, somehow
• Stuff about road freight from overseas

I'm particularly interested in used diesel values (Euro 5 and later) and how the Mercedes diesel/electric hybrids are treated as I'd quite like one!

My crystal ball predictions:
Diesel up 5 p/l
Petrol stays the same
Incentive scheme stays for full electric vehicles under £40K (basically, screw you Tesla buyers)
RFL up for diesels, same for petrol
Luxury car tax up

So used diesels down at least 10% pretty much overnight.

What speculation have you read, and what do you think will happen to used car values?

[mr_spock]

E36GUY said:

mr_spock said:

I'm particularly interested in used diesel values (Euro 5 and later) and how the Mercedes diesel/electric hybrids are treated as I'd quite like one!

I may be wrong but I thought the Merc Hybrids are all petrol?

No, E300 is the 4 pot diesel with the hybrid gear in the gearbox. For example: this one

[mr_spock]

Looks like a non-event then! Ah well.