They both look great cars Tom; the estate especially, looks fab in that gun metal colour [emoji41]
Have you run any quotes through the comparison sites....you may be pleasantly surprised.
If still too much, try a non spec b 3.0l
On the power loss, I've not heard any stories about this....I know you lose about 20% mpg per litre on lpg, but this is more than offset by lpg being roughly half the price of unleaded
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