Car Tax Due!!
 

And it's gone UP!!
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Damned Tories!!
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It's now £115!!! :(
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Mind you, I could have bought a car where the request would be for £460!! :eek:

Tories having to raise it to try and put in dent in the crippling debt Labour have left the country in :(

My Skyline is only £215. No bad for an actual performance car as oppose to the white-good on wheels you drive.:thumb:

It's about £1 per horsepower for him.

340Nm ..... cheaper power cannot be found!! :D

That's torque Pete not power. Did you not do physics at school?:)

£30 per year for mine. :cool:

I'm just not paying mine this year. I'm going to use the money I've saved to replace the passengers side suspension arms for the second time in three years thanks to our wonderful potholed roads.

T'was labours planned increase from previous budgets, as their part of helping the debt crisis.

Didn't Thatcher promise to do away with Car Tax, and put it all on petrol? Instead she put both up.

But then along came Lying Labour and put THAT right.............oh...........wait............

I have just bought a 'bike which is officially historic so does not need road fund tax.

Les :)

Road tax is a joke.

But wouldn't it be good if it WAS all spent on transport?

It has been for more years than I can remember. There used to be a time when our roads were as good as any anywhere...long gone I am afraid,and getting worse.

Les :(

I would favour the Tax going on fuel .... the lobby against is too strong I'm afraid :(

I'm about to buy it online right now. I do look back nearly a year when I was looking to buy a new Impreza STi and one of the stumbling blocks was the fact that I would, 12 months on, be looking to pay £460 - and how would I feel about that?

Well, I would feel pretty sick I guess .... putting that fact against what the extra fuel would have cost me in that time too!

So, £115 it is then ..... better than it could have been!

It's NOT road tax, it is Vehicle Excise Duty and is levied on the amount of CO2 produced.

Rubbish!

£30 per year for mine too :thumb:

I am only paying £15 a year at the moment, but it should be going down to zero by next year :)

Only a fule would buy a deesul ;)

mb

Mine too :D

Pete you are a couple of years away from your wooden overcoat, you were waving your wedge around one here the other day about the scale of your investments and you are today you are whinging about your £115 road tax. Would have thought a man of your means would have £115 lying about in your change jar.

You crack me up man....

You haven't yet learnt the secret of getting rich, have you??

I'll give you a tip - if you spend less money than you need to, you get wealthy :D

Why do you still come on here? I presume you like performance motors? In this day and age nothing is cheap. I wouldn't be happy paying that for a van.. sorry civic, you may as well drive something quick and take the outgoings on the chin.
Petrol is a joke at £1.40+ for super unleaded but if you do 12,000 miles a year which is around the average mileage for most people it isn't that much about £160 a month which is less than 5% of our joint income so it's not that bad in the grand scheme of it. Servicing costs is more expensive than I'D like and don't get m on food shopping.

You cant take it with you- live a little.

Whats the use in being wealthy if you never enjoy your riches. Just sad.

12,000 miles at 22 mpg = 545 Gallons @£1:40 a litre that is £3467.

Add £460 Car Tax and £550 a year Insurance.

That's a basic annual cost of £4477.

Do the same maths for the Honda Diesel and you get an annual cost of £1750.

Now, this is not including the massive depreciation on the STi - I would imagine a loss of £10,000 in the first year?

Yes, I can afford the financial hit ..... and I would, if it was worth it - it isn't!! Simple as that. It has no quality about it whatsoever .... it's fast to the rear of the next queue - granted - but that's it! One trick pony as I said - but the financial hits come again and again and again.

You presume that I HAVE to spend my riches on a car?

I can spend it on many more things I can enjoy :D

with those maths you should be able to afford that cruise you've always promised yourself

Who wants a boring cruise?

Dunno. Who wants a boring civic?