Road tax

[TooT]

How much will you be paying in the next few years.

http://www.parkers.co.uk/cars/road-tax/

Glad i got shot of my V6. MJB don't look

Don't like it? Sign the petition. I have

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/UNFAIR-VED/

[teamster1975]

Glad i got shot of my V6. MJB don't look

He's ok cos it was registered pre 2001!
After 2001 £236.50 for 6 months?!

[TooT]

He's ok cos it was registered pre 2001!
After 2001 £236.50 for 6 months?!

Ahhhh thats ok then.

Yeah you wouldn't want to buy anything in Band M in 2009. Nine hundred odd quid for the first year of tax:shock:

[DaiRees]

How much will you be paying in the next few years.

£270

Signed!

[mjb]

Holy crap!!! £430/year!

Thank god I've got a D8!

[Eric]

Damn the car I was thinking of as a little second car was a Saxo VTS, £300 a year!
What the hell!

It's only a little 1.6 16v

[mbell666]

this is one of the reason i din't get a 406 v6 coupe. i am not paying over £400 a year for tax.

Only left 1 year window to get the 210bhp version and not get raped for road tax.

kind of anoys me i could do 30k+ in a hdi for £200 a year but to do ~5k a year in something a bit more fun you get raped. even thou you'll put about 25% of the co2 you did before!

[Eric]

this is one of the reason i din't get a 406 v6 coupe. i am not paying over £400 a year for tax.

Only left 1 year window to get the 210bhp version and not get raped for road tax.

kind of anoys me i could do 30k+ in a hdi for £200 a year but to do ~5k a year in something a bit more fun you get raped. even thou you'll put about 25% of the co2 you did before!

I agree, the road tax you pay has got feck all to do with the damage you are doing as everyone with the same emissions pays the same no matter what mileage you do.

It's just another money making scam so the powers that be can pay lip service to the hippies and rip us off more

[TooT]

It's also going to damage the price of the used car market something horrible

[mbell666]

most certainly anything pre 2201 with a big engine will be worth more than something 3 or 4 years newer i bet!

[mjb]

this is one of the reason i din't get a 406 v6 coupe. i am not paying over £400 a year for tax.

Only left 1 year window to get the 210bhp version and not get raped for road tax.

Everything I've read says the earlier V6 is actually quicker despite having a few less horses. Loses out on the top end by a couple of mph, but gets there quicker TBH I've not even managed to hit the top end of mine yet. They don't make roads long, straight and empty enough ;)

[teamster1975]

They don't make roads long, straight and empty enough ;)

Without crafty speedtraps too

[ODBFrost]

Just go on the M6 Toll, i've not seen a police car on there yet, had mine topped out a few times and a few others i know.

[teamster1975]

Just go on the M6 Toll, i've not seen a police car on there yet, had mine topped out a few times and a few others i know.

It's a bit far for me!

[mjb]

Just go on the M6 Toll, i've not seen a police car on there yet, had mine topped out a few times and a few others i know.

1) There's often coppers on it. In the daytime there's also camera vans perched on the bridges overhead
2) It's not a straight road at all. Or flat come to think of it
3) There's a HUGE difference between the top speed of the turbo and the V6. 20mph may not sound like much but the handling changes dramatically at that speed and you require much more forward visibility to drive safely. The turbo's top speed of 130mph(*) is about the speed at which the 406s aerodynamics start to behave differently
4) There must be something wrong with your 406 - it'd be illegal to top it out on the M6 toll if your car were capable of doing over 70mph...

(*) Actual speed, not what's shown on the speedo