Future of diesel cars?

Zipppy

In market for a change of car.. have an 08 A3 TFSI Petrol and am looking at 2014 A3s...however they are almost entirely diesel.
I hear lots of cities banning diesel cars or charging extra for access to city centres in the near future and wondering about the sanity of buying a diesel now? If measures are proposed here to ban / charge diesels I'd be stuck with a car noone wants.
Thoughts?

bazz26

Is another A3 your only choice? There are a good few choices in petrol or hybrid/electric if you look at alternatives to the A3.

Cee-Jay-Cee

We’re still 20 years away from banning diesels in this country. The government drove the public en-masse into diesel car ownership that they can’t now go and ban their use in cities.

And to re-affirm that, we’re at least 10-15 years behind Europe in everything else so I wouldn’t be worrying too much about it in the next 10 years st least.

Heres Johnny

Yeah you'll be fine. The lifespan of a car will be shorter than the usefulness of diesel in this country. Work away, worst that could happen is they won't have as good residuals as they do now (not that residuals are very good anyway). I've never had a diesel in my life but I think I'm going to pick up a used F10 530D in next few months, 4 to 5 years old.

Heres Johnny

Heres Johnny wrote: »

Yeah you'll be fine. The lifespan of a car will be shorter than the usefulness of diesel in this country. Work away, worst that could happen is they won't have as good residuals as they do now (not that residuals are very good anyway). I've never had a diesel in my life but I think I'm going to pick up a used F10 530D in next few months, 4 to 5 years old.

In the next 5 budgets tax on diesel will absolutely ramp up every year , most likely negating any savings on fuel consumption

Allinall

Adele Fat Rumor wrote: »

In the next 5 budgets tax on diesel will absolutely ramp up every year , most likely negating any savings on fuel consumption

How much did it go up in this years budget?

Allinall

Allinall wrote: »

How much did it go up in this years budget?

I said the next 5

Allinall

Adele Fat Rumor wrote: »

I said the next 5

With absolutely no basis for saying so, evidenced by this years budget.

bazz26

Adele Fat Rumor wrote: »

In the next 5 budgets tax on diesel will absolutely ramp up every year , most likely negating any savings on fuel consumption

You really should have no problem winning the lotto with that type of information so.

Some people made the same type of claims right up to the budget just gone by, now it's moved on to the next few budgets. The law of averages say you're bound to be right some day.

ongarite

Adele Fat Rumor wrote: »

In the next 5 budgets tax on diesel will absolutely ramp up every year , most likely negating any savings on fuel consumption

They said that this year.
They could have raised duty and tax bands this year but they didn't.

The electorate don't give a f*CK about diesel emissions only the money in their pocket.

With housing expensive and the squeezed middle forced to commute longer distances and in worse traffic than ever, raising the cost of the commute will be an election killer

bazz26

We are looking at a general election in the next few years so it would be political suicide for any of the parties to piss the electret off before then.

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Roger_007

If the Greens get back into any position of influence in government there will be no cars allowed except ones powered by wind. They fcuked up by pushing us all into diesel and now claim that they didn't know about the nitrous oxide emissions.
All the auto manufacturers are into hybrid or full electric cars now, so it does look like the days of diesel are numbered anyway.

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Cantona's Collars

testicles wrote: »

What Greens?

The same ones that put a levy on smokeless coal. They came up with crazy ideas and the big parties went ahead with them.

slave1

Any Gov that touches diesel will be doomed, they will let them die a natural death as petrol hybrids and EV's creep up in efficiency

We are a country where plenty folk commute over 30 miles a day to and from work, 15k miles per annum going to and from work.

There's plenty demand for diesels in the next 10 years IMO, as folks mention this might well taper off over the coming years ..... doubt there'll be any drastic changes in the switch to EV etc in the next 3/5 years.