Classic cars aren’t eco-villains – new data shows they’re cleaner than ever, making them one of the greenest ways to enjoy motoring today
Some people still think classic cars are dirty, polluting dinosaurs that should be shoved into museums, crushed for scrap, or worse – replaced by soulless cookie-cutter EVs. But here’s the bombshell: classic car emissions are lower than ever before. Yes, really. And that’s despite the fact that the number of classics on Britain’s roads has more than doubled in the last decade. From fewer than half a million in 2013, there are now over one million classic cars rolling proudly around the UK.
So how is it possible that emissions are falling when the number of cars has exploded? Here are the facts.