What is it?
This is the first plug-in hybrid 5 Series. It’s not the first hybrid 5 Series, that being the ActiveHybrid 5 available with the last-generation model range. Less than one percent of the 15,000 or so Fives BMW sells here yearly have been part-electric. The ActiveHybrid 5 was expensive, equipped with six cylinders and 302bhp, 149g/km CO2 performance to suit the US, which is why it made little ground here.
BMW hopes that will change, dramatically, with this new 530e iPerformance hybrid, which is a plug-in propelled by a 181bhp 2.0 litre TwinPower Turbo petrol engine and a 112bhp electric motor. The crucial difference lies in some key numbers: the 530e’s £44,765 list price is £770 more than for a 530d SE and £7405 more than for a 520d Efficient Dynamics, while its 46g/km CO2 emissions score it a 9% BIK rating compared to the 520d ED’s 23% and the 530d’s 26%. That’s vastly more competitive than for the ActiveHybrid 5 and enough, BMW thinks, to see it selling around 5000 plug-in 5 Series in a full year.
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So midway through any lease you're going to get gubbed with more than double the tax rate they're showing now. So much for the government wanting us to go green. You might be cheaper getting one of those horrible double cab 4x4 pick ups, if it's tax you're trying to save.
Or just get the car you want in the first place.
Me, I'm thinking swapping to a car allowance and only running my fleet of old bangers, just getting the bus when they break down.
Outoftowner1969 wrote:
its a sub 50g/km petrol 2019-2020 rate is 16%, a 520d Efficient will be at 27% that year! @40% tax a 330e will cost £2800 a year, a 320d will cost nearly £4000 a year!!!
Cash is best....(if its a good option for you)
Which is exactly why I have taken the cash now for some years......running a Volvo S80 V8 R Design now for less cost than anything on my Co Car fleet. That nice four pot sound quoted in the review is not a fraction of the V8 roar I get (and the grin it produces).
2 grand more than the Kia stinger