1.3L...RX8 anyone?
Defenders quoted combined is 28.2 mpg so not fantastic.
Matty, come on stop siding with this goverment as they have a habbit of destroying the systems that were working. NHS on its way to serious problems, prisons at bursting point, illegal immigrants and sex offenders disappearing, need i continue.
People could afford to run the cars they had when the tax was lower, its been a bit of a surprise and has landed lots of people in it. And without sounding like i'm having a go mate, get off that high horse!
I won't ever side with a Labour government (certainly not this one) on anything, but it doesnt matter who is in power, taxes are something we as a developed western nation have to expect. We can't really moan too much about them, because every time we need to go to the doctors or the hospital, or our children need to schooling etc, we get it.
Im not agreeing wholely on which cars should be taxed, and certainly dont like the way a lot of the tax is spent (well, to be truthful, wasted).
But at the end of the day, as many people know, really I want an MR2 but at the present moment in time, I cannot really aford to insure it, so I can't afford it, so I don't have one, pretty simple imho. I don't want to live beyond my means. Some people choose to have 4x4's that see 21mpg if they are lucky some of them, they run them about as though they are as economical as Lund's mini, so at the end of the day an extra couple of hundred quid won't bother them. And if it does, like everything in life, if there comes a time you suddenly can't afford a certain standard of living, for whatever reason, you make comprimises, one way or another, so that you can afford to live.
And yes, it is strongly influenced by the eco-warriors in Brussels, something I strongly don't agree with, for the simple reason, whilst it may be cutting global warming, it is also impacting on global dimming, which is in a way a saving grace from global warming, even if it might only last a few hundred years.
I knwo your not avin a go matey, and you raise some good points and its a good debate, its just I am slightly inclined to agree with the government on this one, but don't let that be seen as me loving them hehe cos their nob's the lot of them.
PS. Talking of car tax, I just felt it, had to tax me car today and got to the counter and was told the price had gone up £3.00 from what the notification said lmao.
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