You can look up any car to check its current and future Road TAX (VED) and the band it is in

Road tax - Parker's

Also check out size, performance specs and CO2 outputs

Facts & Figures - Parker's

Bl00dy robbing b******s

Bl00dy robbing b******s

I take it you are a FSI-T petrol vRS

My deepest sympathies ...

Could be worse, they could insist on getting our cars re-tested after mods :eek:

almost £300 for a vRS just what i expected.

I like the fact if you have the same engine in an older golf gti you pay less tax

well though out scheme that

almost £300 for a vRS just what i expected.

I like the fact if you have the same engine in an older golf gti you pay less tax

well though out scheme that

It it fairly transparent, every extra 10 g/km CO2 produced puts you in the next band (for A-M bandings).

So a heavier, less aerodynamic car will have a higher grouping.

I don't see a banding difference, they are 188 and 189 g/km CO2 respectively? (if you mean vRS vs GTI?)

If you mean the early MKIVs, they will be un-rated by CO2 and hence either banded as below 1.5 or above 1.5 litres.

I suspect a new band will be introduced in the next year or two to split out again at 3+ litres (as TFL, Mayor of London has done for congestion charging)

Reckon they have cocked up the new and second hand market too.Do not think they have thought this through properly.Just jumping on the trendy green issue

X trail 210 to 415 to 430

MX5 210 to 300 to 310

I am sick to the back teeth of all of this.

If there is a protest,I will join it

Classic cars are the way to go.

Lets see how much mine is then.... oh yeh... still £120!

I think its a bit steap for some cars...!!

I take it you are a FSI-T petrol vRS

My deepest sympathies ...

Thanks :(

Could be worse, they could insist on getting our cars re-tested after mods :eek:

Shh, don't give them ideas!

£20 increase in two years time for my vrs, Mr Darling you are not welcome in edinburgh anymore ya big bushy eyebrowed idiot!

You caused trouble in edinburgh with your stupid transport plans and now as chancer of the exchequer you making it worse.

They'll wait for everyone to shift to derv then whack the tax up on that 'coz it's dirty and kills baby animals'.

They've done it before.

chancer of the exchequer

Never a truer fraudian slip!

According to that site, my Fabia will be £120 in 2008. £110 in 2009 and £115 in 2010 :confused:

According to that site, my Fabia will be £120 in 2008. £110 in 2009 and £115 in 2010 :confused:

same for me. That £120 will be leaving my wallet all too soon. :( MOT today pending.

My Mazda MX-5 is in the same bracket as an Octy II vRS 2.0 T. Now that doesn't seem right to me.

Right that's it, I'm gonna drive as far as I can every day whilst smoking a massive cigar for the next 12 months to get my money's worth! I'll show the buggers polution! And I'm gonna exhale as much carbon dioxide as I possibly can muster from the bottom of my lungs whilst driving about.

I just can't understand how a government can charge us so much to live in this fetid feckless country, and still run up the biggest national debt ever, and then have the audacity to charge us more and more and more and even more! They're nowt but a set of fat greedy useless lazy moronic simpering F*ckwits, and I hope I get the chance to operate the guillotine come the revolution!

My Mazda MX-5 is in the same bracket as an Octy II vRS 2.0 T. Now that doesn't seem right to me.

Right that's it, I'm gonna drive as far as I can every day whilst smoking a massive cigar for the next 12 months to get my money's worth! I'll show the buggers polution! And I'm gonna exhale as much carbon dioxide as I possibly can muster from the bottom of my lungs whilst driving about.

I just can't understand how a government can charge us so much to live in this fetid feckless country, and still run up the biggest national debt ever, and then have the audacity to charge us more and more and more and even more! They're nowt but a set of fat greedy useless lazy moronic simpering F*ckwits, and I hope I get the chance to operate the guillotine come the revolution!

:rofl:

I suppose us diesel Fabia owners are some of the small group of people in the country to actually see a reduction of road tax

:thumbdwn: :thumbdwn: To everything else to do with the theiving, cheating, robbing, low-life scumbag government

SWMBOs Mini Cooper S (£300/£310) is going to be more expensive to tax than the Octy vRS (£260/£270)???

I really don't think it's been thought through properly at all and will be suprised if it all goes through without something/someone taking issue with it.

I think i'll be getting both cars remapped to get the best bang for buck out of it!

MPM

I ... will be suprised if it all goes through without something/someone taking issue with it.

I think we are taking issue with it here, but if you mean you think it will be canned I will wager you a year's tax on a Veyron it will!

The problem is its not even really our government pushing for it, it is teh European Union - so you know how easy it is to change their mind. The whole EU signed a treaty in Dec 2007 that we will achieve an average CO2 output of 130 g/km by 2012.

There are only two (marginally different) ways to legislate for that: ban dirty cars, charge dirty cars off the road.

I suppose the good news is we still get to drive around in imperial units!

What a joke. Seriously how can they justify this crazy increase in tax?

I think I might knock up SWMBO and not bother building my career anymore, it's cheaper to be scum in the UK.

The funny thing is, driving around with no tax/insurance etc.. would probably land you a £400 fine and nothing else.... anyone else see where I'm going with this?

I bet you uninsured / mot'd / taxed cars go up from people not being able to afford it.

£120 for me this year, a whopping £5 rise the greedy sods!

Looks like a remap will be money well spent then - big performance increase without the road tax liability...

:( ummm just been on Parkers ... as I sold my vRS to buy a Premier Ed Type R im going to have to fork out £300! Its gone up £90. Bad times. Goddamnit I want my Furby back, but at least I dont have to pay quite so much for petrol, hehe. Btw here in Cheltenham Shell fuel prices are like 5p a litre cheaper than in Oxford 30 miles away. :confused: I may sell my car and ride my horse everywhere, like in the olden days, might you they will probably be taxing her soon :P

Its ridiculous the Polititions can claim their car tax back as 'expenses' so they dont care ... as soon as ive got my Law degree in off out the country. Then ill see if they can get their pesky fat fingers on my money!

or I may become one of them.

Rant over.

I had my tax renewal last thursday £112.75 for 6 months.

On sunday I went online to pay for it.

Ended paying £115.50.

Why did they send it for the different amount ????????

I'm going from Group E (£170 P/A) to Group I in 2009, means a £25 increase, but then in 2010 It's going up by another £5 ontop of 2009.

Sod me for having a 1.6 litre hatchback:mad::thumbdwn:

This Country.........!

At this rate i can fast see my vRS being swapped for a Tdi L&K or something.

if the government want us to drive eco friendly cars maybe they should give us more choice instead of the toyota prius which are expensive and butt ugly

they should give us more choice instead of the toyota prius which are expensive and butt ugly

And do more damage to the environment than any other petrol/diesel powered car