geoffxr4

Just been reading that the goverment is gonna abolish the current exemption from the highest rate of road tax for cars with a CO2 outpout more than 225g/km bought before 2006. I'm sure others will know more about this than me but looks like if you got a focus RS then your road tax is going up...

what does it mean for other older cars?

Anybody know?

slammedorion

http://www.parkers.co.uk/cars/road-tax/?deriv=24069

Its going up on a FOCUS RS to £415 quid next year and £430 quid the year after...pre march 2001 cars will be pretty much as they are now... below 1600cc will be £120 quid a year, 1600cc and above will be £200 quid a year as I understand...
Everything march 2001 onwards will be taxed on its emission... Doesn't work out to bad for the run arounds, but most performance cars ie, the Focus RS, Impreza's, Evo's etc... Get alittle expensive...
If you want a quick car... buy a pre march 2001... lol...

Mr RS500

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Thats just added even more value to cossie powered Mk1 and 2 escorts ,lol,

iansoutham

Works out bad even for runarounds.

I have a MK5 Fiesta 1.25 in my collection. It was built in 2000 and is on a n X-reg. The tax will be £120 per year.

an identical car registered on a Y-reg will be £180. £60 more expensive for EXACTLY the same car.

How can a 1.25 Fiesta be that polluting? A friend has a BMW 535D M-sport on a '07 plate. His tax will be £145 per year

dojj

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looking at that site, i'm not as bad off as i thoguht i would be

but still, they can take a running fuck if they think i'm going to be forking out £300 a year for road tax
i'll just bolt in an engine from an earlier car

or

as the insurance thinks, i'll admit it's an 1998 car and not a 2002

Martin-Hadland

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Why is that? Cosworth models are hardly affected anyway.

Turbosystems

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i'm sure you'll find this is just the start of higher road tax in the future born free taxed to death

percybigun

on another note, i seem to remember when the rolling 25-year tax exemption thing was frozen in 1998 (so only pre-1973 cars would be tax exempt) some people who had 1974 registered cars managed to prove that the build date of their chassis was in 1973 and successfully got tax exemption.

i wonder if this is possible for post march 2001 cars? i know of a few people with late registered 51 plate mondeo ST200's who will have to pay the £415 a year, yet all mk2 mondeo's ceased production in late 2000...

frog

How would a new mondeo with a cossie engine fare then ??? Is it the chassis build date, or the engine that takes precedence ???

Likewise, if I stick a brand new polluting engine in my 1991 sierra

I appreciate it will be a minority of people who do that... however...

percybigun

its all on chassis build dates AFAIK.

so you would be no better off.

you would be better getting something like a new-ish fiesta 1.4TDCi which has the really cheap tax, and sticking a cossy lump in that.

dojj

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but if you make your car older it's worth less

so you lose both ways

frog

That's what I expected and it clearly makes no sense whatsoever... I can stick a gas guzzling 8L V8 in a fiesta and get away with 1.4Diesel tax

* Such a large engine may not actually fit in a little fiesta, but that's not the point...

kjc300

iTrader: (1)

AFAIK it goes on the engines age - i.e. if you stick a pre aug 92 cossie lump in your cossie (and can prove it) You dont have to pass stricter cat emmission tests.

percybigun

there is some big Chevy V8's been fitted to the fiat 126 hotrods, so anything is possible

percybigun

thats about MOT's though, not road tax.

RichardPON

£400 a year for the E46 M3! What a joke!

AndyBrew

the wifes clio 197 sport will be £430 per year, my escort cossie will be £185 she's well pissed I'm trying to convince her she needs Evo 6 LOL!!!