Just heard on the R4 Sunday newspaper reveiw that some papers are predicting a "substantial" increase in Vehicle Excise Duty for city based SUVs in the Budget next week. One wonders how he will differentiate between SUV's that only drive in the city and all the others? 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

but what's a substantial increase? £50, £100, £500??

If it's either of the first two is that really going to put people off buying £40,000 + cars...I doubt it  Chips with everything

Who cares if its just city based owners... makes a change that city folk should pay more rather than us country dwellers supporting London through our taxes. D3 owner from the other side...

And that's another argument  Chips with everything

well... it may yet turn into one Chris  D3 owner from the other side...

Although I am a country dweller I'm also a 2 SUV, single person household... right in the firing line I think!
I think this is just playing to the popular vote, as was said earlier it won't stop those who can afford to run SUV's from doning so. There was a very interesting item on our local radio station on Wednesday where a reporter took a member of the Alliance against 4x4's (what ever they are called) out into the Perthshire countryside where there has been over a metre of snow fallen....... in a Toyota Prius. The idea was to persuade the mothers on the school run that they should give up their SUV's. The person from the protest group got laughed over the horizon............ many roads were blocked and there were heaps of snow everywhere, but live was continuing as normal for those with 4x4's whereas the Prius not only got stuck, they damaged the bonnet and front airdam when they slid off the carriage way into a snowdrift! There was no arguement and the city dwelling lady in her Prius had to admit that SUV's were really quite useful once one of the wives on the school run had attached a tow rope to the back of the Prius and pulled it out of the white stuff! 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

great report !

Do us a favour, post this on their website and others anti 4x4 and see if it lasts more than a few hours online. Bet they remove it.


-s D3 owner from the other side...

Are you joking Si? I would be opening myself up to all sorts of email havoc from them! 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

ah go on

they will ignore you anyway as they are 'right' apparently.

cheers and glad to see you'll have yer RRS fixed tomorrow too.

-s D3 owner from the other side...

Nah, it's the wrong target; the reason for global warming is due to the lack of pirates. Here's a graph to convince you all:

Dr Lex thats a very convincing set of statistics, can you copy Mayor Livingstone on that one - after he's finished his suspension. 11 XFR

08 RRS TDV8 HSE with the good bits taken off the first RRS

05 RR Sport TDV6 HSE Rimini Red (Rimini Brown at events), Stormer wheels (original 19's for events), PTI, towpack. TV tuner (now driven by an employee)

1923 Ford Model T (serious ground clearance)


FFRR TDV8 Vogue my07 (wife won't let me use it in case I go to Salisbury with VA in it)

plus some other bits n' pieces

he would turn it upside down, charge £2.5 billion for the pleasure and put up the congestion charge to pay for the Olympics  D3 owner from the other side...