Three lattes a day or a year of classic car ownership? According to a new report, the two could be comparable in terms of CO2 emissions.
Bicester Heritage-based PR and communications agency, loop, has done some number-crunching in an attempt to measure the carbon footprint of the UK’s classic car fleet, and it has come up with some interesting observations in its study, ‘Quantifying classic car emissions’, released this week, on 17 October.
To put it another way, if you’re not a coffee drinker, loop also states that, on average, a classic car’s annual emissions are roughly equivalent to a return flight between London and New York, or most people’s three-day Christmas celebrations.
Many classic cars registered with the DVLA have no recorded build date, including 17,918 Morris Minors
For the study, loop defined all cars manufactured before 1992 as ‘classic’ – it found that there are 874,083 registered with the DVLA, however 461,515 of these are declared as SORN (Statutory Off Road Notification).
It is difficult to quantify classic car emissions, because a majority of the vehicles were manufactured prior to formalised standards.
