Christian McArdle wrote:
I get 45mpg out of my elderly Audi and that's without the environmental
expense of producing a new car.

Yep. My wife's car gets 62mph and only costs 40 quid in tax.

I'm definitely in favour of much more punitive taxation for the higher
classes. However, I hope they don't get too arsey with 7 seat Group E
vehicles. I bought the lowest emission 7 seater I could find (and afford),
which was a Zafira 2.0DTi. It had 4g/km too much for Group E. However, as
its use often means that we don't need to run two cars for a journey, I bet,
on average, that it saves us CO2 over a 5 seater Group D. I hope that this
is eventually taken into account when the tax differentials ramp up.

Christian.


Why?

I am definitely in favour of punitive FUEL taxation, but leave the cars
alone...

Fuel savings comes from all the little cars NOT doing the school run,
NOT doing a supermarket run EVERY DAY and not doing 100 mile commutes
every day.

Not from some poor old aristo who takes out the Roller once a week to
visit Harrods..or the Range Rover to go grouse shooting.