Import cars and road tax rip off.
 

Here's one to cheer you up.
Apparently any car REGISTERED OVER HERE after August 2006 is liable for the new band G road tax. That's £300 a year to you right now Sir, and £600 as soon as they think they can get away with it. This includes Import cars, including the 2003 350Z and the 2005 Spec C my brother just imported!
The justification for this theft is CO2 emission levels.
Have a nice day! :mad:

Write to your MP! Its a nonsense after all: how can they state what your CO2 emmissions are when the car (a new car supplied by the manufacturer) hasnt been tested during type-approval?

The regulations were drawn up with a vehicles date of first use in mind, not first registration. This is a mistake (it wasnt applied to all cars, but soon it will be if left unchecked) which is spreading quickly. Soon itll be accepted as the 'norm' (a little like should of instead of should have / should've spoken by the il-educated).

Citizen Simon

I'm in the same boat, sickening!

Someone i know imported a STI6 last year and just got his threw and they want £300 for that :cuckoo:

Not the case for ALL imports though. Our DC5 was registered in Aug 07 and its only £180 per year (renewal though this month). :)

It has lower emissions though.

I heard from March 2008 all cars that are made with 2litre engines + will have £300-£600. But obverasly the usa still pay f*ck all for tax and petrol although there 50times bigger then uk.

Am I correct in thinking this only applies to imports that have had a SVA? My STI 3 was registered in April 07 and is £180/yr.

Gordon Brown is to "heal the world" though....

How that's not a conflict of interest, I don't know :( :razz:
Still, with the economy in tatters and house prices on the way down, it's not going to be quite the happy fluffy spring election that he'd envisaged.

J.

Hey Alex, I'd keep quiet about that! You'll find them sneaking around your place in the night, sniffing your emissions...

Nope but it does use the model reports for ESVA where they get the CO2 value they use from......any car now ESVA'd has its CO2 used to determine its VED band, there is a short discrepancy where ESVA'd cars were older and CO2 on the V5 than new cars, but its only for a few years, and anyway, not enough ESVA cars to justify a change in the law for!

Simon

Without wanting to spit out the egg that youre teaching me to suck (;))... I do understand that, my point is that these values should only be taken from new manufacturer-supplied vehicles submitted for type-approval testing. Figures achieved from a 50,000 mile car used for the comparison test are irrelevant.

Simon