At 1.40 euros/

The Fabia VRS is 11,999 in it's standard trim, which includes Air con, electric windows, mirrors, central locking, ASR. That is the list price, but in reality you don't have to pay more than

Rob, are those prices including all the weird Dutch Taxes. If they are then I dont think they are to bad. If you take away all the taxes, and remove the vat from uk prices then holland is much cheaper IIRC.

At 1.40 euros/

Mattijs, the entire range of old octavia has just had a massive price cut here in the UK. the Octy vRS is now the bargain of the century at

Perhaps mine were Belgian prices after all with a different structure ?

The prices are from a car mag I bought in the Netherlands last week, but it wasn't far from Belgium...!

Rob

the Octy vRS is now the bargain of the century at

Mattijs, the entire range of old octavia has just had a massive price cut here in the UK. the Octy vRS is now the bargain of the century at

Perhaps mine were Belgian prices after all with a different structure ?

Rob: yes, could well be so. Belgium is quite a bit cheaper to Holland - in many respects...

In POLAND - Skoda Poland is offering the Fabia RS 1.9 TDI/96 kW (130 KM(bhp)) on promotion at

Norway has the same "problem" as Holland. The net prices are extremly low to compensate for all the taxes, 24% VAT, pluss the complex taxes:

weight:

Wow, Christian, that turns our car-tax system into elementary-school arythmetic. :eek:

And it looks like there's no escape. If you go for a turbo car to save on cc tax, you'll still get hit by the kW tax. Ouch!

So the Lotus Elise would be the ultimate cheap performance car for Norway, I gather?

An Elise with a diesel engine, that is...

This also has the implications that once you tune your car you have (if you want it to be legal) pay the additional taxes, power in this case.

So the government uses officially approved rolling roads to come to a fair taxation?

hehe, they rarely put your car on the rolling roads though.. Only when you come with CAI, miltek exhaust, uprated brakes, uprated suspension, body styling, and still claim to be a golf pd 130 (happened to a mate) on your EU check is when they put you on the rolling roads (he was on 188 bhp). He got a nice bill of