I can forgive my sport for most things such as poor economy and the odd fault or two but taxing it at over £460 hurts
Days like this an X5 looks appealing

Nik. 2015 Golf R DSG
Gone 2013 Mercedes C220 CDi AMG Sport Plus
Gone 2008 2.7 RRS HSE

Don't blame the Sport. Blame the bloody Govt who think that taxing 4x4s heavily will save the environment.

Actually, they don't think that at all, but they reckon that people with 4x4 can afford to pay more tax and therefore they tax them.

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Maybe but X5's are only £260 a year so come on Landrover sort out the emissions

RRSTDV8 wrote:

Don't blame the Sport. Blame the bloody Govt who think that taxing 4x4s heavily will save the environment.

Actually, they don't think that at all, but they reckon that people with 4x4 can afford to pay more tax and therefore they tax them.

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And this government says we want a fairer britain Then reduce our bloody tax then inline with other motors

Governments are all at it one way or another........and will extract your money somehow...
I don't pay road tax here ...... BUT.....
The two hour drive to Barcelona I do most weeks costs £30 in tolls each way.... so in excess of £3,000pa !!!
That's highway robbery for you and it's car non specific so it doesn't matter if its a Prius or a Bugatti...
In Spain car purchase tax is 28%
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Nik wrote:

I can forgive my sport for most things such as poor economy and the odd fault or two but taxing it at over £460 hurts
Days like this an X5 looks appealing

Nik.

Even at £1460......an X5 would never, ever look appealing[/u].............to me anyway. If you don't like paying the "questionable tax", don't buy a Range Rover. You might as well enjoy it, the F s will get the money out of you some other way

IMO considering we are probably weeks away from more riots, the elected (cough, splutter) should be working out how to keep peace and quiet by removing RFL completely at current fuel tax rates or alternatively reducing those rates significantly and keeping the system, one or the other.........the camels back is about to snap! L322 Big Daddy SUPERCHARGED 5.0 Autobiography - Here & Now!

5 series for the miles

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45 others have been and gone!

£460 is good. If it makes u feel any better, here in Malaysia Tax for a 5.0 would cost you around £2150, and nearly triple its its registered as a company car. And the cars here cost way more

They won't get rid of the tax disc because the police want it kept. It allows them an excuse to stop people, for a start, and it's another step in the process that allows the system to check we're insured etc. Although as there are thousands of uninsured drivers out there, it doesn't seem to work very well.

Me? I'd scrap the RFL and just add a penny to the fuel tax (if they are absolutely sure they can't live without the money). That way, the more you use, the more you pay. Which seems equitable to me. Although the environmental arguments for the fuel duty levy really annoy me - if I had a decent alternative to using the car for every journey then I'd use the alternative sometimes. But I don't, so I can't.

And make driving uninisured punishable by an automatic 10 year stretch. That should keep the bastards off the road. 2012 SDV6 - it's missing a couple of cylinders
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will_wonka wrote:

Even at £1460......an X5 would never, ever look appealing.............to me anyway.

Did make me , that Will.

Lets not forget the first year RFL debacle, I know its paid by the dealer (meaning ultimately us anyway) but that's the best part of 1000 notes, think of all the additional money they will begetting today  ON THE WAY: BMW F21 M140i
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I don't begrudge paying it, but the govenment have got it so wrong, i do about 10,000 mile a year in my motor and pay £460 ayear road tax, my pal is a driving instructor he does 45,000 ish miles per year and pays £20 a year tax who is polluting the atmosphere more as they now tax vehicles on co2

I pay it and only drive the car 3 or 4 months of the year - depending on when I get home ! Can't really complain though, don't have any dealing with the tax man !!!

3 or 4 mths? Sorn it. SVR 2018 in Santorini Black.

Any form of tax that uses emissions per KM as a charging basis without taking into account the actual number of KM the vehicle travels is, in my opinion illegal. Im surprised somebody hasnt challenged this legally before now.

I have before now pumped out 10 times the CO2 from a lower emitting vehicle than I have one of the higher emitting ones, due simply to the very low mileage on the large engine car and high mileage on the low engine cars - yet due to the emissions figure on the V5, regardless of whether it spends 99% of its time in the garage, the higher emissions car gets hit for higher road tax.

It's an absolute utter joke. RRS 3.0D HSE 11MY - Fuji White, a few extras.

Agree 100%

So do i.
I only do around 6k a year so i'm all for putting the tax onto petrol, pay as you go
Plus it would eliminate the problem the authorities have with those not taxing cars.

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Gone 2013 Mercedes C220 CDi AMG Sport Plus
Gone 2008 2.7 RRS HSE