Will my car fall into the £400 pounds a year tax bracket, I've seen the websites but don't know what band mine is as I haven't got the log book back.

I think you will find nice Mr Brown has just slashed the resale value of your car.

It will be £300 next year and £400 the year after mate.

As your post says Sideways your 2007 WRX will be £300 this year then £400 next year to tax .

If it was registered before 31st March 2006 then its £205 for the year.

Wolfie.

Don't want to rub it in, but the residuals of the 2007 are going to be terrible, the last model before a redesign and also twice as much to tax as a pretty much identical previous model.

Unless of course the redesigned 2008 model is rubbish!

All the info I've read suggest that the 2008 'Impreza' (if that's what they call it) is going to compete more with cars like the Golf. There is a good reason for that - which is that Subaru cannot prosper by selling only 'niche' versions of the Impreza like the WRX/STi - they need to sell reasonable volumes of the 'mainstream' non-performance variants - and that means building a more mainstream-looking hatch.
For this reason I think that the 2007-reg cars will retain their value reasonably well since they will be sufficiently different in concept from the new model. The only major concern would be if you paid full UK dealer price - in which case the flood of EU-import cars are knockdown prices won't do much for your retained value!

The car tax is an issue, but I can't see it affecting values massively. These cars are bought by people who are looking at high insurance and fuel costs anyway.

I have to say I am looking to get out of my 2006 56 plate WRX ASAP

Yeah I know, but £300.00 VED in November plus an expensive service plus prob. near on £700.00 insurance all just befor Xmas is not good. It still has a resonable resale value and I did get it at a good price.

The extra road tax is a bloody rip off, but not a reason to sell it. Its not really going to make that much difference to the running costs is it?

so if I owned a Bugatti Veyron (did consider but to common for me ) I would pay the same tax as a 06 WRX


That seems reasonable to me

I am afraid it just pushes it over the edge.

tell that too my wife

Like I said, I think the new tax is rather unfair. My point is that with the fuel consumption and servicing costs, a turbo impreza costs significantly more to run than anything i've owned previously. The reason we do it though is how they feel to drive. Nice car by the way

This£400 tax thing is yet another example of this government ripping us off. I work bloody hard to buy and run my car. Both my cars will fall into this £400 bracket so thats £800 a year just to tax the things! When labour came to power it was about £130 each car I think. They also now get insurance premium tax off us (prob about £25 for av Scoob driver) I do not class myself as well off at all. I can afford nice things because as said above I am prepared to work damned hard. Seems you get punished for having any ambition at all in this country now. I am also expecting the council tax snoopers shortly taking piccies of my house inside and out. No doubts they will bang up tax cause I have a conservatory and a fancy garden nome. Mr Brown will tax anything he can to pay for his mistakes and wastage. When road pricing comes in it will work out cheaper to buy a helicopter than drive.

^well said. Tax and spend other peoples money on low lifes.

Listen mate the new road tax is total rip off but not enough to sell your car. If you done your homework you would know that these cars have high costs to run, maintain and insure. I put up with this because every time I drive the car its all worth while. Think hard.

Why not bring in a new tax on emmisions from peoples mouths as well. Mr Blair and Brown would be fecked with all the crap they emit. Liars and con men!!!

True and yes I refuse to give in to this shambolic labour government but WHY should we be hit in the pocket for their mistakes. This whole global warming thing is not totally understood anyway. I agree that cars emit greenhouse gases but surely we were made to fit catalytic converters years ago and if traffic lights were not deliberately sequenced to cause congestion, and if u got rid of speed humps the need to get less efficient cars off the road would be removed. I am a taxi driver and can honestly say that a journey that took say 15 minutes 10 years ago takes 25 sometimes 30 minutes now. How often do you sit at traffic lights for no reason at all. Burning fuel unnecessarily! I have a relative (retired) who worked in town planning and tells me a directive was sent down by Labour in 1997 telling councils to create congestion in order to cut vehicles on road. I rest my case!!!