Cars with CO2 emissions under 120g/km

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The following cars all have CO2 emissions of 120g/km or less, putting them in Vehicle Excise Duty Band B. There are currently no cars in the UK in Band A, so this is the best you’re going to get. With the exception of the Toyota Prius, all the cars are ’superminis’.

• Citroen C1 1.0i petrol & 1.4HDi diesel
• Citroen C2 1.4HDi diesel
• Citroen C3, 1.6HDi 16v diesel, 1.4HDi diesel
• Daihatsu Sirion 1.0 petrol
• Fiat Grande Punto 1.3 diesel
• Ford Fiesta 1.6 Duratorq TDCi diesel
• Mini R56 1.6 diesel
• Peugeot 107 1.0 petrol
• Peugeot 206 1.4HDi diesel
• Renault Clio 1.5 dCi diesel
• Renault Modus 1.5 dCi diesel
• Smart forfour 1.5Td diesel
• Toyota Yaris 1.4 D-4D diesel
• Vauxhall Corsa 1.0i petrol & 1.3CDTi petrol
• Fiat Panda 1.3 16v diesel
• Hyandai Getz 1.5 CRTD diesel



• Toyota Prius 1.5 VVT-i Hybrid, which beats the lot with CO2 emissions of 104g/km, putting it just outside of Band A.

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3 Responses

  1. anon e mouse

    You have missed Honda Hybrid from the low emmission list

  2. Darren Jones

    What about fiat 500?

  3. Simon

    The list of cars achieving 120g.km or better has grown since this original post. There are several family cars, and two so-called ’superminis’ — the SEAT Ibiza Ecomotive and Volkswagen Polo Bluemotion achieve 99g/km.

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