I spent a couple of hours this afternoon at one of the local car auction --- planned new road tax bands and fuel costs are not half killing the values of big cars & 4x4s. Even quite oridinary 1.8s are affected.
Hurrah, that'll totally waste the trade-in value of the mrs 2.0L Alfa. Well, provided I can keep the damn thing running long enough to get it
there
I took a gamble and bought one last week, my gamble was the government would do a u-turn on car tax, and now it seems they have
and it cost me next
to nowt
[Edited on 2/7/08 by philw]
I hate to be the bearer of bad news 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7484478.stm
Could be some interesting big-engined donors about then. I've often wondered about doing a Locost styled XJ8 based car
John
quote:
Originally posted by Mr Clive
I hate to be the bearer of bad news
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7484478.stm
What a joke the new system will be, where do they honestly expect people to get the money from.
New Prices:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/629/629/7293011.stm
quote:
Originally posted by 001Ben
What a joke the new system will be, where do they honestly expect people to get the money from.
New Prices:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/629/629/7293011.stm
Governments idea is to tax these 'poluting' cars off the road, yet getting rid of cars that already exist and replacing them with newer cars is more damaging to the environment.
At least the increase does not appear to effect pre 2001 cars,so us really poor people running old cars are not effected yet anyway
ah but it isn't as there will be that much tax on the new cars no one can afford to buy one!
I've just seen the dates on the links you guys have posted, it has all changed today, all will be revealed soon by all accounts, watch the news if you get a chance.
I was amazed to see my company Prius costs £15 per year, which is about the same as a 125cc bike!
I strongly suspect the carbon footprint of the Prius may be bigger!
Stu
they're still going ahead with the new tax laws
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7484478.stm
Just glad my new (to me) 2005 diesel focus is still quite cheap 
To tell you how cheap they are getting !!
Porsche Cayenne Turbo Tiptronic 04/04 done 57 ooo Miles. FullPorsche history . Demo plus one. Cost new £83500. I paid £21750 !!
Regards
Bobs bangers
quote:
Originally posted by PAUL FISHER
At least the increase does not appear to effect pre 2001 cars,so us really poor people running old cars are not effected yet anyway
The really underhand bit is the break points are shifted, with an eye to revenue they didn't just divide the old classes in two but a lot of the
threshold values were moved down.
For example the existing class E was 166-185 g/km and a lot of vehicles were engineered to just fall into this class with emission circa 182 to 184
g/km, the new band J starts at 180 g/km catching a lot vehicles in a much higher taxation bracket.
^^^^ blimey - that's some seriously complicate sh&t for a satruday night!!! 
