Road Tax Set To Double.....

[ThePrisoner]

Was listening to the news yesteday, and it appears that in this years Budget Gordon Brown is expected to double road tax for the most poluting cars from aprox £210 a year to £420 a year.

This will include most 4x4's and sports cars. Will anyone on here be affected? Probably those with V6 motor's will get a rise.

I personally think it is a discrace, we are now officially being taxed to death in this country.

Pris.

[mjb]

I want to know what will happen to the tax on older cars like mine. Think my last disc cost £179

It's ridiculous. We already have a taxation system based on how much pollution you pump into the sky - it's what makes up most of the cost of a litre of fuel!

Thieving arseholes.

[Welly]

To be honest, if they increase road tax on top end cars and 4 x 4's then people will just pay it. You're no going to trade in your Range Rover for a small 1000cc Kia just to save £200.00.

I think a better idea would be to charge motorists maybe for like each mile they drive.. you know perhaps charge a bit more in busy times and less in quiet.......oh wait

[DaiRees]

Once again it's an ill conceived tax. It doesn't take into account all the factors that should be considered. The only fair way to do this is to abolish VED and put all the tax on fuel. The more you use, the more you pay. The less you use, the less you pay.

And I really wish the media would stop banging on about "gas-guzzling 4X4s" . Any tax is going to based on emissions, not drive train configuration. As Pris said, sports cars, executive cars but worse yet large family cars and people carriers are going to get taxed off the road. Great! So your average family with 4 kids has to sell their 806 'cos they can't afford this new, non linear tax and replace it with a pair of 307s, then go everywhere in convoy. That's really going to help congestion and the environment isn't it.

What about the environmental cost of manufacuring all these new "eco friendly" cars? What car has one of the biggest carbon footprints of any on the whole planet? The Toyota Prius.

The Prius Story

Hypocritical pricks!

[Welly]

That is f*cking stupid.

The Prius was on an old Top Gear the other night and Jezza struggled to get 46 MPG when Toyoyo said it would do 63 MPG. Jezza complained that a Diesel VW Lupo he drove the week before did 70MPG on the same journey.

Imagine buying a Prius knowing that you had contributed to all that sh*t being pumped into the air

[mjb]

I was reading about driving law the other day and discovered that people who passed their car driving test after January 1991 can't actually drive electrically propelled vehicles - ie. a Prius!