EVERYONE’S familiar with crowded returns counters at department stores after Christmas; now Vauxhall is extending the same principle to buying a car. Customers who opt for the extended-range electric Ampera can try it for up to thirty days – and if they don’t like it, they can give it back.
What’s a Vauxhall Ampera?
It’s Vauxhall’s answer to the hybrid, an electric car with a petrol engine as a built-in generator. It has much to offer the company car driver:
- 50 miles on a charge, but a range of over 300 miles
- Zero road tax
- 5% company car tax
- London Congestion Charge exempt
The Vauxhall Ampera has a lot to offer company car drivers.
It’s exempt from the London Congestion Charge and has low fuel consumption in day-to-day motoring thanks to its ability to run for up to fifty miles on a charge of its batteries from the mains.
Add in zero road tax and a five per cent company car tax charge and it’s clear that some business motorists, at least, could do very well by opting for Vauxhall’s high-tech range extender.
On the other hand, the Vauxhall Ampera has quite a high starting price – £29,995 with the government’s plug-in car grant – and many of its features such as its low noise levels, excellent ride comfort and the smooth, unobtrusive way the petrol range extender engine kicks in as a generator when the charge in the batteries has run down, really need to be experienced directly in order to be appreciated.
That makes the Ampera particularly well suited to what Vauxhall is calling its “Love it or Return it” scheme.
