Looks like BMW are not happy with the congestion charging either:
BMW UK's managing director has branded London mayor Ken Livingstone's congestion charging scheme "barmy", adding it could cost bigger businesses almost three quarters of a million pounds a year.
Speaking at BMW's annual press dinner in London, Jim O'Donnell was forthright in his views about the problem companies face because of congestion charging. He said: "I know some will agree with the principle that anything will do to restore some form of order to London's congested streets. I, however, cannot and do not see this barmy scheme through such rose-tinted spectacles.
"It will cost our Park Lane dealer £70,000 in 2003. For larger central London businesses, this figure might be 10 times higher. It will prove to be another chunk of red tape, another backdoor tax and another burden on business, quite apart from the regressive effect on nurses at Westminster hospital and other low-paid workers in our capital."
He joked that The Beatles penned the song 'Taxman' in 1966, with the line "If you drive a car I'll tax the streets", and that "37 years later Ken Livingstone is about to turn fantasy into reality."