£455 Road TAX..
something like £630 for me next year 
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20 August 2008, 07:21 PM
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20 August 2008, 07:26 PM
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Looks like i'll be putting my forged 2.5 lump into a bug or a classic !! I point blank refuse to pay that sort of money for a road tax it's a blatent **** take.
Hmmm just had an idea of a facelifting a bugeye into a blobeye where there's a will there's a way !!!
Hmmm just had an idea of a facelifting a bugeye into a blobeye where there's a will there's a way !!!
20 August 2008, 07:27 PM
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How many Scoby owner can really afford £455 for Tax next year...im sure they will pay it..but i can see this effecting the sale prices of cars big time...though that has already started...
When i wrote off my m5 near 8 months ago - insurance paid me out £13.8K which was really good considering it had 140k on the clock..8 months on you can pick up a M5 with 80K on the clock for like £8k
When i wrote off my m5 near 8 months ago - insurance paid me out £13.8K which was really good considering it had 140k on the clock..8 months on you can pick up a M5 with 80K on the clock for like £8k
20 August 2008, 07:30 PM
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The whole idea is horsesh*t and is designed to target drivers who they think can afford to pay and will take it lying down.
Forget that they only seem to use the money to erect more feckin speed cameras and don't use it to fix the bloody roads, which was what it was originally designed for. The fact that the income they'll have been making from the recent hikes in fuel prices has probably gone up by 50% obviously doesn't factor in.
What annoys me the most though is the way it's been made a retrospective tax. My WRX was registered on the 3rd March 2001 - just 2 frickin days outside this cut off date
but that's not the point - the point is that what the hell do this shower of useless incompetents expect us to do? Sell our cars - yeah great, except that everyone will do the same thing, and so the government will manage to bankrupt the motorist and destroy the second hand car market at the same time. All in the name of "the environment".
I'm so sick of their drivel - why can't they just say it for what it is - "we have overspent on crap by trillions, wasted your money and now we need to screw you all over some more to try and get it back to fund more hairbrained nonsense schemes."
Grrrrr!!!
Forget that they only seem to use the money to erect more feckin speed cameras and don't use it to fix the bloody roads, which was what it was originally designed for. The fact that the income they'll have been making from the recent hikes in fuel prices has probably gone up by 50% obviously doesn't factor in.
What annoys me the most though is the way it's been made a retrospective tax. My WRX was registered on the 3rd March 2001 - just 2 frickin days outside this cut off date
but that's not the point - the point is that what the hell do this shower of useless incompetents expect us to do? Sell our cars - yeah great, except that everyone will do the same thing, and so the government will manage to bankrupt the motorist and destroy the second hand car market at the same time. All in the name of "the environment". I'm so sick of their drivel - why can't they just say it for what it is - "we have overspent on crap by trillions, wasted your money and now we need to screw you all over some more to try and get it back to fund more hairbrained nonsense schemes."
Grrrrr!!!
20 August 2008, 07:38 PM
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Was looking at Autotrader website earlier in the week and Prodrive STI bugeyes and STI blobs are still fetching over £10k - didn't look like the market had dropped around here... not surprised they're not selling though - everyone's feeling the pinch from fuel, gas and mortgage increases.
It's a right bugger innit likes.
20 August 2008, 07:38 PM
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20 August 2008, 07:48 PM
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Would pay as you drive be such a bad thing??
My company vehicle cost £35 a year road tax, and will stay that way aswell. it does between 60-70k a year. IMO that takes the biscut.
i do 2-3k in my scoob and i pay £300+ so tell me how my scoob is damaging the environment more??
My company vehicle cost £35 a year road tax, and will stay that way aswell. it does between 60-70k a year. IMO that takes the biscut.
i do 2-3k in my scoob and i pay £300+ so tell me how my scoob is damaging the environment more??
20 August 2008, 07:55 PM
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