Uk Promotes Keeping Older Cars On The Road

[WylieCoyote]

time to get out of the UK lads.... im glad i did.

low taxes - i pay 8.5%, some kantons/counties its 2%.

no road tax,

roads in very good condition,

effective policing,

no problems with gypos/pissheads etc some "assylum" seekers but the swiss have an effective deportation regime.

safe to walk at anytime in the streets

every man has an assult rifle at home but very rare to have gun crime,

oh and its clean!

The man has a point. It wouldn't take very much persuading to get me out of here. That's the advantage about my jobs, I can do them anywhere. I'm just sick of paying frankly ludicrous amounts of MY money to the government for them to then give it to immigrants, dole scroungers and foreign countries where the only place it ends up is in fat cats back pockets.

One little thing that has always narked me, when I was at university, I tried applying for free prescriptions but was told I couldn't get them. Every lazy f**kwit on income support gets everything for free. Blood boils....!

[Rikos]

We could go on for hours an hours about this and it is obvious that this country is no longer a great place to live. It is a sad day that people who live here want to up and leave!

[84Stoney]

ARGH! Because my car was registered bang on 1st March 01, i fall into the "on or after 1st March 2001" category, how f**king frustrating! :tsktsk: :tsktsk: :tsktsk: :tsktsk:

Gutted mate!!! Thats just bad luck.

I'll sell mine to anyone whos interested.....£12k! Reg Pre march 2001

time to get out of the UK lads.... im glad i did.

low taxes - i pay 8.5%, some kantons/counties its 2%.

no road tax,

roads in very good condition,

effective policing,

no problems with gypos/pissheads etc some "assylum" seekers but the swiss have an effective deportation regime.

safe to walk at anytime in the streets

every man has an assult rifle at home but very rare to have gun crime,

oh and its clean!

I heard there are more guns per person than USA, yet something like 6 gun related deaths a year, half of them suiside! (Jeremy Clarkson book i think!)

[Rob]

ARGH! Because my car was registered bang on 1st March 01, i fall into the "on or after 1st March 2001" category, how f**king frustrating! :tsktsk: :tsktsk: :tsktsk: :tsktsk:

Gutted mate!!! Thats just bad luck.

I'll sell mine to anyone whos interested.....£12k! Reg Pre march 2001

time to get out of the UK lads.... im glad i did.

low taxes - i pay 8.5%, some kantons/counties its 2%.

no road tax,

roads in very good condition,

effective policing,

no problems with gypos/pissheads etc some "assylum" seekers but the swiss have an effective deportation regime.

safe to walk at anytime in the streets

every man has an assult rifle at home but very rare to have gun crime,

oh and its clean!

I heard there are more guns per person than USA, yet something like 6 gun related deaths a year, half of them suiside! (Jeremy Clarkson book i think!)

probably about right....... its a different mentality here.

[italiafirenze]

The tax is only a "planned" increase. I'm in the car trade and have studied this rigorously as it will severely influence what we buy and what's likely to sell towards the end of this year and start of next year. I personally have specifically bought an X plate car because of this.

Not too many people are aware of the planned changes yet and they could still change in the next budget. If they do change however it is most likely to target the pre-2001 cars (X reg and older) is an increase in the tax of the pre-2001 X plate or older cars. They can't tax these cars based on emissions as they don't have the required data, but a more likely increase would be to introduce a greater number of bands based on engine size (data that is available).

Either this change takes place or we will certainly see a situation where an X plate car is worth more than a Y plate car of similar age. If I had a Y plate I'd be worried. 02,52,03 cars will probably suffer a bit but will still be worth more because of the age difference.

As for the cost of it, if you believe in the environmental thing and global warming you have to believe it's for the best. If, like me I hasten to add, you think it might all just be part of the natural cycle of things and I'll be long dead before it really affects me anyway then you have cause to complain, but nobody is listening. It's really not cool to be anti-environmentalist, just ask Clarkson, and no government in the world can be seen to be such.

I asked my girlfriend this question the other day when she complained that the diesel for her car cost £1.16 per litre;

"How much would it have to be before you stopped buying it and got on the bus, or walked, or cycled, or car-shared?"

She couldn't answer it. The price could be £2 a litre and she'd still pay it, as would I, as would most of us and we'd complain in the pub and maybe vote the other way but nothing can break the scarcity value of oil. There is no real alternative.

The same applies to the car tax. Ask yourself "How much is too much?".