As you have seemed to have pigeon holes decent cars into the premium sector then you can’t really ignore the Porsche Panamera and cayenne flagship model plugin hybrids?
But then we are talking about replacing an old focus here so I’m not really sure why something like a Prius, Auris or Insight fails the brief?
what’s the budget for this costly new car to save pennies? I would focus on what you want, it might already be the Focus.
well, ive been looking on and off for 2 years now
my list as a minimum seems to come back with cars costing £10K +
Auto
Focus Sized car
LED lights or Xenons
LED DRL
Automatic Emergency Braking
Blutooth
USB port for my music
Sat Nav (optional) (i use my TomTom but id like integrated )
Parking Sensors
Folding Mirrors
1L Ecoboost Titanium X = £12K minimum
Toyota Auris Hybrid £12K minimum
Lexus CT200h Hybrid £12K minimum
Leon 1.4 Petrol FR near enough the same
others seem to be higher fuel consumption or tax
Hybrid seems best option ?
£0 tax
More economical
Same / less service costs
Less moving parts = more reliable
thats what ive been looking at , but i could be wrong here
keeping the car so as i thought manufactures are only going to be making Hybrids and Electric cars soon, and more and more people going over to Hybrids and Electric cars, then cost of hybrids wont depreciate as fast as the petrol alternative will