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Budget 'to hit gas guzzlers hard'


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ok i'm confused, dont take much! my supra is an L reg therefore under the new budget it would still be taxed by engine size ie £185 a year right?

take it that will also apply to my 1975 landy??

 

Isn't the landie exempt as it's over 25 years old?

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What a load of crap this 'green tax' is.

I own two cars, my UKTT and a Toyota 4 Runner 3L diesel Turbo:)

So I've got 6 litres of planet destroying motors and I'll pay less for them both in tax than my mate and his wife will be paying for a 1.6 Suzuki Vitara :D :p

 

Think I'll go and start them both up and let them tick over just to celebrate:D

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Looks like my Chrysler bus will jump from £190 this last year to £300 and then £400 as it's in band G at 302 g/Km with it's 3.3 V6 4sp auto box.

 

It's just 6 months inside the time period (Sep 01) otherwise it would be the same as the soop. Arse!

 

No, your Chrysler will still be band F, band G only applies to vehicles first registered on or after 23/03/06.

 

By the same principle, a 2006 Ford Street Ka (189 CO2s) and a 2001 Lambourghini Diablo (520 CO2s) both pay £190/year. Crazy system. I'd have thought if they really wanted to tax "gas-guzzlers", then the top band would be 300 CO2s and above or something. Of course, many less people own such cars, so they wouldn't make so much money.

 

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The reason that the big tax hike only affects post-2006 cars is because of the comparatively few number of people who currently own them.

 

If Brown had put a big tax hike on older cars, he would have been committing political suicide.

 

Indeed, plus as has already been said here, he's sending a message to the car companies which I interpret to be "You don't need to stop making big cars, but you do need to cut their emissions if you want to sell any."

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