Question about your main vehicle

Thinking of the main vehicle used by your household, is it ...

  • Bi fuel

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Diesel

    Votes: 20 58.8%
  • Diesel hybrid

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Diesel plug-in hybrid

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Electric

    Votes: 3 8.8%
  • Hydrogen

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Petrol

    Votes: 7 20.6%
  • Petrol hybrid

    Votes: 3 8.8%
  • Petrol plug-in hybrid

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • n/a, we are a vehicle-less household

    Votes: 1 2.9%

  • Total voters
    34
  • Poll closed .
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No specific reason for posting this, other than I've been mulling over what type of car (engine/fuel wise) I'll buy next time round. Interested to know what the spread is across forum members.

If you can be bothered, also let us know the make, model and age of the vehicle you've referenced in the poll. And, if you don't currently own an electric vehicle, might you be tempted to go down that route when you next change vehicle?

Mine is an 08 plate SEAT Leon FR TDi.
 
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Next car will be electric. Was going to get a Model S, when the model 3 came out, but the wait was too long so I bought a 435d convertible.
probably looking at Model 3 performance. Might convince the g/f to swap hers in first, but its a 116d and as far as I can work out uses a teaspoon of fuel a week.
 
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Pretty sure our next main vehicle will be a petrol hybrid. Can’t see the benefits of a fully electric car now they are going to tax them and what with the price of electric. Our current main petrol car will become the second car when this happens but it probably won’t be for a while.
 
Both got diesels.
Mine, Peugeot Partner car. 1.6HDi (I think). 10 years old
Wife. Citreon Picasso Exclusive. Also 1.6 and 7 years old.

Neither is the main one as we swap and change which one to use when we go out together, but I use mine for work each day.
Fuel consumption on both is great, especially compared against petrol similars.
Won't touch electric at the moment for various reasons. One being I would worry, if going on a long journey, about having to charge up en-route and not being able to find a point without having to wait a long time to charge up. Another worry is the variance on prices depending on where you charge them. No objections to having to pay a tax duty on them. They cause wear and tear of the roads just the same as carbon fuel vehicles.
The security company that does night time patrols where I work use electric vans. A few weeks ago their driver skidded off the road and impaled the van on a steel spike. The spike apparently punctured the battery compartment and caused a fire. Heat was so intense it actually melted a big bunch of keys to various sites so that they were totally useless. They had to collect sample keys off all their clients so they could get new ones cut.
 
not going electric , havent got the range , plus the cost of electric now ... and cost of charge points

Hybrid can be an issue if you have to charge - rather than the self chargers
my son lives in a flat - so impossible to charge , as the carpark is across a main road !!!!!

my 2nd son was looking , but he was in a 2nd floor flat in central london, so another none starter

Also i would not touch a diesel again, or 2nd car is diesel and all my old company cars - changed every 2 years was diesel - up to i retired
I was doing long runs frequently , which diesel need to have - short journeys cause issues - I had EGR valve issues

my current car is Audi A3 Petrol 14reg
and wifes car is a
C4 Grand - 2L diesel

When i come to change the Audi - I guess I will have no choice but electric - maybe water by then

They need to standardise the batteries and then make them easy to swap - so you pull up at a petrol station - push a button and swap out the batteries
then drive off
 
Petrol. Both Ford.
Next one will be another petrol Ford, might be hybrid or mild hybrid.
Wont be fully electric due to the cost of the vehicle for the one that does few miles (won't get the extra cost back on the fuel saving) and due to the available range for the one that does a lot of miles (can't be assed waiting around for ages for a charging point to become available and then another half hour to get a charge).
 
Wife....... Range Rover evoque 2.2L Diesel...........7 years old.

Me......... Mercedes E400 3.5L Petrol..........6 years old.
 
personal cars both diesel automatics .
my work car for the odd wee job diesel manual
 
Mine is an 08 plate SEAT Leon FR TDi.

We had one of these for several years, good car. Traded it in 2016, but it’s still out there somewhere going strong at 174k miles at the time of the last MOT.

We have a Model 3 Long Range. It was a good deal due to salary sacrifice scheme / tax benefit but with increasing electric costs, it’s not really any cheaper than running a non EV car. Very nice car to drive, driven down to London (from liverpool) on a single charge, Brum and back on a charge…so pretty much no concerns about range etc for normal usage.
 
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