Road tax rises next year

[Harold_Shand]

https://www.parkers.co.uk/News/Road-tax/Family-cars-made-worthless-by-road-tax-changes/

...and there was me thinking about about a 2.5 Mitzi Galant. Mmm, makes you think twice.

Be prepared to get fucked hard, not only with the tax, but what you eventually get for it when you sell it. The end is nigh.
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Harold_Shand's theory might be the best explanation.

[MarJay]

I can't see anything on that list worth crying about in any way.

Perhaps the Mitsubishi, but the rest are just Japanese and Korean white goods.
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[The Artist]

+1 for sticking with just a bike. I can't see a car being viable for me now for quite a few years.

[Kickstart]

Hi

Unfortunatly anything interesting is going to be hit with hideous road tax. Certainly a Impreza turbo.

All the best

Keith
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[defblade]

[Kickstart]

Hi

I agree, same for older cars. But I expect that gap to be plugged at some point.

All the best

Keith
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[Harold_Shand]

Just to think, vehicles for fun will be something talked about excitedly over a half litre of 1% beer in a state run alcohol addiction centre after a lunch of GM carrots with people from the same work/life zone that you have been bred in to.
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[Kickstart]

Hi

Not sure I agree. Maybe:-

Just to think, vehicles for fun will be something talked about in hushed terms normally reserved for the depraved over a half litre of 1% beer in a state run alcohol addiction centre after a lunch of GM carrots with people from the same work/life zone that you have been bred in to.

People brainwashed to that extent won't find vehicles for fun to be anything other than something to be disgusted about.

All the best

Keith
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[Wave2k]

Thanks Labour you fucking cunts
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[CaPo]

Not sure I believe the link above. Its contradicted elsewhere on the Parkers site and also on the DVLA site.
Wave, are you on the RX8OC? Ive got a 231 as well, '04 plate so hoping the above isnt true.

[Wave2k]

Yea i am mate, but i very rarely post, its just a very good and informative site to be a member of.
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[aaronb74]

I'm happy to stick with my 1995 BMW 328 until it finally dies (which, frankly, could be a while).

But yeah, it sucks the way drivers get taxed up to their eyeballs. Most people who drive older cars are the ones who can't afford to replace them with newer cars, so the gov't are just punishing the poor even more
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[Phoenix]

[iCraig]

I love my car, £90 a year road tax from April!

[karoshi]

[Phoenix]

The old Galant/Legnum are nice looking cars, as you say though, the old nicely styled ones fall outside the new tax brackets and the Legnums are all Japanese imports so also evade it. Galants are seriously underpowered though, the 2.5 V6 is not quick given the engine size and horrendous on fuel and again the VR4 is fairly exclusively Japenese imports, only a handful of UK ones.

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

[Kickstart]

Hi

Trouble with running older cars is the spares situation. Plenty of bits will become unobtainable. No fun having your car off the road for 6 months while you try and source an engine mount.

All the best

Keith
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[Clanger]

I got stung hard when I renewed the tax on my newer Micra...it's because its an auto...

Also the insurance has gone up a full £100 than last year too.

It's a bad time to have no income.
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[27cows]

Good. Fucking cars
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[owdamer]

If you read the comments at the bottom of that page then you'll realise that the story dates back to 2008.

[Wave2k]

[Blackwolf]

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]