£735 is what the vehicle excise duty costs on some interesting, and not-so-interesting cars – a Nissan 370Z, Jeep Cherokee 2.5, Mazda 6 MPS or Mercedes GLC 43 for example.per day just for VED is an expensive enterprise - that means you could be spending 10% of the value of a tidy Mazda RX-8 on tax alone each year. But happily, cars registered between . And even those that emit 120g/km will pay just £35, though it goes up rapidly above that.
Depreciation shouldn’t be a worry either - the fact that just 150 were sold here seems to be keeping values firm.A stylish supermini, the A1 Mk1 offers tax-free motoring in some petrol or diesel forms, just like the Mito. All the petrols are helpfully ULEZ compliant, and some of the 1.0-litre 94bhp petrols are free to tax too - performance is adequate and economy is a very respectable 67mpg.
Even a 520d will complete the same sprint in 7.5sec and return 65.6mpg when driven with a lighter foot. Interestingly, the 120d BluePerformance was ULEZ compliant as early as 2013, but these are rare. If you want even cheaper running costs, you could go as low as the 114d with its paltry 94bhp, but don’t do that to yourself.
On the other hand, the petrols suit the supermini character better and even the 129bhp 1.2-litre should in theory return 62.8mpg – but the sweet spot is probably the slightly less powerful and free-to-tax 109bhp version of that engine, still plenty in aEarlier on in the 21st century, before the investment into electric cars, car manufacturers had money to spend, and as such scraped the barrel of niches.
A manual gearbox may put a dent in their stately feel, but it's nice enough to use and leather is standard across the board, so tell any passengers you chose it for the ‘extra driving involvement’ and they won’t even know you skimped on the base engine...The biggest surprise Lexus on this list might have been the most basic trim level of the RX 450h with its 3.
In the real world these figures will never be attainable unless you charge regularly, because as soon as that petrol V6 powers up fuel will be drunk at a rate of knots. The more sensible bet will be the C and E-Class PHEVs as they swap the thirsty V6 for a more frugal four-banger, all in a lighter body.