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Nutty Government, they have gone barking mad!

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Disco Matt:
This one might well bite them. An awful lot of things that aren't "gas guzzling 4x4s" will be hit with high duty rates by this.

Wonder if this will cause Disco 1 prices to shoot up?  :lol:

Boggert:
What bugs me is my car is in this category by 3 months, its only worth about £5k

What they have done is devalued my car big time... I figure its pretty worthless now.

Who is going to buy a 7 year old car, with 80K on the clock that is going to cost £430, not me for sure!

I figure if I was to try and trade it in, they would have given me may be £3500 for it now its will be more like £1000.

No one is going to want them!

Because of this, I figure I will have to lump it and pay the tax, and drive the car into the ground.

sleeplessparadise:
I am like you Boggert in that mine falls into the catergory by 3 months but because it's down on my log book as a commercial vehicle it doesn't have any emissions data and so will be taxed the same as it always was from what I can work out.

ian_s:
and yet the most polluting cars, the old carburetted pre cat petrols, are still only charged less than 200 quid a year!
not that i am complaining about that, mind you

muddyweb:

--- Quote from: ian_s on May 01, 2008, 08:32:35 ---and yet the most polluting cars, the old carburetted pre cat petrols, are still only charged less than 200 quid a year!
not that i am complaining about that, mind you

--- End quote ---

It's always going to be the case that until the dust-to-dust pollution of vehicles is taken into account, there is always going to be an unfair situation.    My 1973 2.25L Series 3 almost certainly is more polluting at the tailpipe than a brand new, cat-equipped, electronically managed car...   but... the pollution caused in the production and recycling of new vehicles every 3 years makes a mockery of the whole thing.

It's not just the fault of the government either...  it's the culture that you have to change your car every 3 years... it is the fault of the endless environmental groups and pressure groups who want to villify a group of people...  they are in turn supported by a global media who broadcast and propagate whatever seems to be "newsworthy".

The "inconvenient truth" is that it is easier to scapegoat people and make ourselves feel better than try to actually understand what is happening and act accordingly.


Save the planet...   drive a 30 year old car  :D

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