Hi,

My 07/07 WRX STi Spec D is full cream road tax at £475 a year.

If my car was registered a year sooner, it would be £270 a year.

I obviously knew this before I bought the car, but jeez it's rediculous!!

To boot, I'm paying an extra £15 a year for just 2 g/km, pushing me from band L to band M.

Not the governments fault about that, but they are thiefs.

Increasing road taxes = more potholes. Simples.

 

Its a killer one of the main main things putting me off a spec D
oh and the sunroof,hate them never use them and leaks are a pain in my
then damp A**

 

scrap the tax, put it on fuel. Never understood how someone doing 2k a year pays £460 but another guy doing 20k a year pays £250 or so.
Anyways although i pay the higher £460 i wouldnt give it up, id rather pay it then be forced to live in a gutless cloud blowing machine

 

Me too, but it's frustrating that an identical car registered 365 days earlier is getting on for half the price to tax!!

 

They don't come with a sunroof, or at least mine hasn't got one anyway.

 

My car missed out by less than 30 days but still better than a diesel !

 

Sorry was getting my models mixed up

its the blobeye "sl" with leather that has the sunroof
and the tax on the Spec D

 

I have a diesel too, a 54 plate Passat 1.9 TDi 130ps Highline, mapped to 170ps by AMD in Essex.

Can't part with it, just need to start using it as my daily again. When you shut the doors on it, it sounds just like a Golf lol

 

My blobeye was one of the last made i just paid 261 for 6 months it was 470ish for 12, yet if the car was a tad newer it would of been a lot less, same car though.

 

I have a 57 plate hawkeye sti type uk and I pay 475 tax and 550 insurance is that good for the year

 

This is my point. How can they have a cut off point where some people somewhere would have had their car (Porsche, Audi or whatever)registered a day too late and pay nearly double?

 

My hawk was registered on 1st March 2006 so I only pay the lower amount, it was one of the main points I was looking for when searching for a scoob.

 

the insurance is good ! mines a bit dearer although has a few declared mods.
In all fairness we all know the tax status before we buy the car, did it put me off ? no, would i like it reduced , hell yes
But not a deal killer for me

 

I looked into the tax and ins before I got it I thought don't bye it if I can not afford to run it , it is a Scooby they not cheap to run cheers pramas

 

As painful as it is it's only a few £100 more per year ... you'll **** that away in petrol with a heavy right foot over an afternoon

TX.

 

Lads ffs dont be complaining, over here we get bent over on the tax, 2ltr is 600e per year, 2.5 is 1000e per year and my favourite was an e46 m3 which weighed in at only 1600e per year... I beleive the new M3 IS 1900e per year.. You lucky fokrs

 

VED's days are numbered because the greedy government are now losing too much money.
They bought out the zero rated class to promote their BS green targets. Trouble is like everything government they hugely under estimated the amount of zero rated cars that would be sold in the uk.
They cant make a U-turn and charge for tax as they agreed terms with the vehicle manufactures to invest in this green technology. All they can do now is look for another way to tax. The thing that scares me is nothing any government has ever changed in the past has ever actually save us money. May even up the playing field though.

 

I thought my Hawk was registered also on 1st March. Then i got the new tax demand, turned out the dealer had registered it on April 1st thus missing the cheaper tax by 7 days

But the car was a month newer than i thought it was

I take it off the road frequently and cash the road tax in, the new rates have focussed my mind, motorbike tax gets cashed in too. Normally i left them all taxed all year round. This way i have extra administration as does the DVLA. I dont think they thought this through.......

 

That's the best way to force change imo. If we all kept cashing in and renewing tax several times a year it would end up to expensive for the dvla to administrate. Trouble is we dont most of the time if our cars are only off the road for a month.

 

Pmsl, a year ! Try 2 fookin days !

 

Gutted man!!

 

Registration dates are bollox imho as all 300 cars were manufactured at the same time. Some just sat around longer I know at least one spec D registered before 23rd March yet mine on the 25th costs more to tax in one year than both of my other classics put together. I can assure you they are far less green than my Spec D lol !

 

Got to agree they are a bunch of thieving *******s as they always use the motorist as cash cow. In real terms industry does more damage to the enviroment but why would they tax the people giving them back handers.