Environmentally sound Cars

Vetinarugbian

Hi there,

I have a job that involves me carrying a lot of stuff around, I don't need a van but certainly a 2 door car with no back seat.
Id really love to know what my green options are, what has the greenest emissions out there. To be honest Im not cracked on a Prius, Ive heard that the "greeness" attributed to them is false and the battery alone is heavy, toxic to dispose of and takes a million year.
Does anybody have any suggestions, am I right about the Prius? I would love to just drive a city car like a smart and get a thousand miles to the gallon but its not an option.

Any suggestions would be great. Thanks

Cookie_Monster

any big old car is the way to go, esp diesel for the mileage.

Manufacture is the costliest part of a cars life from a green point of view, followed by disposal and then running so an older 2nd hand car with a bigger low revving engine (less stress, longer living, cheaper to maintain) is your best bet form an impact point of view.

Owen

How big is the stuff you're carrying around?

Del2005

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

any big old car is the way to go, esp diesel for the mileage.

Manufacture is the costliest part of a cars life from a green point of view, followed by disposal and then running so an older 2nd hand car with a bigger low revving engine (less stress, longer living, cheaper to maintain) is your best bet form an impact point of view.

And stay away from Diesels. They emit low CO2 but on nearly every other level they are terrible for the environment.

Daegerty

Peugeot 308 HDi, VW Polo diesel

both get around 90mpg on the open road. they have all sorts of filters which make it troublesome to run them off biodisel but remove a lot of the pollution from dino diesel.

a prius is not particularly efficient, especially outside of cities. besides being a boring Automatic ould heap

for petrol the honda cr-z is fairly decent

BryanF

Del2005 wrote: »

And stay away from Diesels. They emit low CO2 but on nearly every other level they are terrible for the environment.

can you elaborate on this statement?

BryanF

Daegerty wrote: »

Peugeot 308 HDi, VW Polo diesel

both get around 90mpg on the open road.

Re the Polo, can you give more details, which years, models, engines sizes will give this sort of mpg.

I was under the impression the Lopo was one of the best for fuel efficiency at circa 80mpg.

Del2005

BryanF wrote: »

can you elaborate on this statement?

Your already on the internet, just use google and see what each emits.