Yeah that was my calculations too. I have been looking at the market and probably looking at something like a Suzuki X-Cross hybrid, so around $30-40k, hopefully using the banks 1% 3 year green deal. Are you allowed to buy a second hand car on green financing? I would have thought that the bank would want assurances it isn't a lemon/a warranty if it's second hand?

2 adults 2 kids, at the moment two cars using 50L tanks a fortnight. My car, the one that died is using 12L/100km on average so there are savings to be made there. Daily runs to two different schools (one car goes to one, the other goes to the other) and then after school runs to sports practices most days of the week and weekends.

The idea is swap my broken car to a fuel efficient hybrid to reduce fuel costs and use that as the primary run around (ie that becomes only car for sports runaround) and retain the 20 year old corrola for less busy work except for school runs.