New company car time - help me choose

I suppose the options in the Skoda would help bring down the tax bill. If you don’t mind paying the extra tax, you may as well have a nice car, then It’s the Lexus.

Tucson is also quite a nice looking car , the sportage is a curiously cheap??
 
Sportage for me from that lot - nice car nowadays, £70 less BIK per month than the Octavia buys a good bit of fuel

As an aside are those really low mileage leases or something? Very surprised none of those are trade up
 
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I'm really not a fan of SUV's. I also don't mind paying a little more to have a nice car, last time we could trade up and I paid for extra kit on the Mondeo.

For me it's between the Octavia, Corolla and the Lexus ES.
 
Nick1881 said:
I'm really not a fan of SUV's. I also don't mind paying a little more to have a nice car, last time we could trade up and I paid for extra kit on the Mondeo.

For me it's between the Octavia, Corolla and the Lexus ES.
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I think you'd be surprised by the sportage - it's well reviewed. Maybe worth a test drive to see what you think?
 
Nick1881 said:
With the Octavia ES L I can get the 2.0 150 DSG and it will let me add every option.

My colleage has been to look at some cars today, he was very impressed with the Corolla, then he went to look at the Lexus ES300, he tried to put all his tools and equipment in the boot and it all fitted easily, he said he wants it now.
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So highest tax and worst mpg car? Thats heart over head decision there! lol
 
Nick1881 said:
I'm really not a fan of SUV's. I also don't mind paying a little more to have a nice car, last time we could trade up and I paid for extra kit on the Mondeo.

For me it's between the Octavia, Corolla and the Lexus ES.
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lol love that fact you have now included the car which least matches your requirements when you posted your question :D
 
I genuinely couldn’t see myself trundling up and down the motorway in a Corolla with a CVT box. Soul destroying isn’t the word.

I’ve been very very impressed with the Korean offerings over the last 2 or 3 years.

But everyone has different priorities and likes in a car.
 
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Trundling up and down a motorway is soul destroying whether you're driving a manual, an auto or a cvt. A diesel dsg octavia sat in 7th is hardly exciting or inspiring is it? :p

In fact, that sort of driving is probably where the gearbox is of least concern, because it'll barely be doing anything whatever it is.
 
Tinders said:
I genuinely couldn’t see myself trundling up and down the motorway in a Corolla with a CVT box. Soul destroying isn’t the word.

I’ve been very very impressed with the Korean offerings over the last 2 or 3 years.

But everyone has different priorities and likes in a car.
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The CVT box wil be fine on the motorway. As long as the car is quiet, comfortable and helps the journey go by I don't mind.

Also the Lexus may be more for tax but I should make some back in fuel, as they will pay 26p per mile and it should achieve 50 mpg.
 
Nick1881 said:
The CVT box wil be fine on the motorway. As long as the car is quiet, comfortable and helps the journey go by I don't mind.

Also the Lexus may be more for tax but I should make some back in fuel, as they will pay 26p per mile and it should achieve 50 mpg.
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missed that it had a bigger than 2l engine! So in that case the lower fuel economy will me more than offset by the extra ppm. You still have up to 4 times more company car tax to pay per month.

You just need to cruch some figures based on your mileage and see what the total annual cost of each of them would be (or profit) and then decide if one car is worth the extra money over another one.
 
To be fair I don’t think money is the motivator here. He’s already fallen for the Corolla
 
Tinders said:
To be fair I don’t think money is the motivator here. He’s already fallen for the Corolla
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Money isn’t the motivator, but I haven’t fell for the Corolla yet.

I drove the Lexus ES today and it’s amazing, I could probably cope with the boot, it will just make things more awkward when loading and unloading, but it sure will make every trip more enjoyable from a driving point of view.
 
hmrc fuel rates , had, apparently changed end of Nov
www.fleetnews.co.uk

HMRC publishes new advisory fuel rates effective from March 1

New AFRs have been published by HMRC for company car drivers claiming back fuel costs from their employer.
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As a result, the rates for petrol company cars have all been cut, with the AFR for petrol vehicles up to 1,400cc now 14p per mile (ppm), down from 15ppm. Petrol vehicles with an engine sized from 1,401-2,000cc also decrease by 1ppm, from 18-17ppm.

The AFR for vehicles with an engine over 2,000cc, which rose by 2ppm in September, from 25-27ppm, have now been cut by 1ppm to 26ppm from December 1.

HMRC has announced that the advisory electricity rate (AER) will increase from 5ppm to 8ppm from December 1
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Surprised they dropped the rate for petrol cars tbh, it didn’t go by enough in last round, at the very least they should have stayed where they are now.
 
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They get updated quarterly as routine, in line with latest fuel prices.
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yep the article says that - the earlier data in the thread had been out of date,

although 26p OP said he'll get on lexus 2.5 is correct .... why are they making a 2.5 - no substitute for cc's ? from the taxmans perspective anyway.
 
jpaul said:
yep the article says that - the earlier data in the thread had been out of date,

although 26p OP said he'll get on lexus 2.5 is correct .... why are they making a 2.5 - no substitute for cc's ? from the taxmans perspective anyway.
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Its purely based on the average fuel price for the previous 3 months. Simple as that. Which means if its been a low previous 3 months and the price of fuel suddenly shoots up, then the agreed allowance rate isnt enough to cover peoples actual costs.. Equally if its been a very high previous three months and then the price drops quickly, people make a good profit. Swings and roundabouts and probably evens itself out over time.
 
Tinders said:
Surprised they dropped the rate for petrol cars tbh, it didn’t go by enough in last round, at the very least they should have stayed where they are now.
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I think they are really generous. take the over 2l petrol. Its assumes 28.8 mpg and £1.644 per litre. Its easy to find a petrol car which will do more than 28.8mpg and petrol is less than £1.49 per litre now.

Of course you can chose to buy a car where the 26p wont cover your fuel costs but thats your choice.
 
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I think they are really generous. take the over 2l petrol. Its assumes 28.8 mpg and £1.644 per litre. Its easy to find a petrol car which will do more than 28.8mpg and petrol is less than £1.49 per litre now.

Of course you can chose to buy a car where the 26p wont cover your fuel costs but thats your choice.
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I wish i had gone for a Kuga PHEV, with the bigger engines, its worthwhile. Mines 1995cc or similar and its been a struggle with the fuel still being close to 160 in my area, only yesterday, tesco dropped their UL to 154. I use costco a lot, which has helped.

I need to be doing 45mpg (@ 1.56/l) to break even (that includes the cost to charge the car). On a typical journey of 200 miles, thats just about do able.
 
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