The Camaro Club (UK)

This only affects cars registered after April 1st 2017.

Does anyone else find it odd and confusing?

I find the "cars over 40k pay extra tax" thing odd (think they were aiming at Tesla there?). Cars over 40k need to pay £310 additional every year for the next 5 years. So if you get a new V8 with over 200gm/k CO2 that's over 40k to buy, which it will likely be, then first year tax is £1,200 (must be taxed for 12 months for the first time, can't do 6 months or monthly) then you pay the additional £310 so it would be £1,510 for the first year, then £450 each year for the next 4 years. So in 5 years, you pay £3,310. Mental.

Even new fully electric cars (over 40k) have to pay £310 Tax each year for the first 5 years :/ Way to encourage cleaner options.

https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-tax-rate-tab ... april-2017

Global warming conversation aside, and just focusing on the issue of clean air, the cities are full of buses and many, many taxi's. Why can't Taxi's be made to go electric. Paris (had the biggest) and London not far behind issue with emissions (mainly diesel NOx) which i think would be hugely reduced if the vehicles that live there (buses and taxi's) became electric. They could always be charged up (taxi ranks = idle time and convenient charge point) and they are bigger vehicles, so have space for batteries and don't need to reach high speeds. Why isn't the government pushing for that to be the way to achieve clean air in London by 2020?

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It's not about emissions or global warming, the governbent have found a gaping hole in their income because some cars don't use fuel or pay tax and other cars use a lot less fuel than their equivalent did 19 years ago, they are just finding ways to plug that gap so just like dave and George before them they can also keep ponies and refurbish military jets to fly about in at our expense, a gravy train is pretty useless to ride in if there's no gravy about

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