Values??

[New Duke]

A decatted RX8 that does 1000miles a year would produce far less emissions than some 60-70mpg ecobox that does 15000 miles a year.

Especially if the manufacturer has been proven to lie. I'm shocked that anybody still considers buying a brand new VW.

[Ainmhidh]

Theoretically a fine of up to £1000 for missing either, and you can't renew tax without the MOT. Also, they might impound your car...

[New Duke]

'Impound'? - I think you mean 'secure parking' Alan

It's cool, I was jesting. Although I could really do with the garage free for this: https://mevltd.co.uk/kit-cars/mev-exocet

[dac69er]

A decatted RX8 that does 1000miles a year would produce far less emissions than some 60-70mpg ecobox that does 15000 miles a year.

Especially if the manufacturer has been proven to lie. I'm shocked that anybody still considers buying a brand new VW.

If the faked figures mean the tax is cheap, most people wouldnt actually care.

If mazda fluffed the figures for the rx8 and the tax was £50 a year rather than near £600, would you complain?

[New Duke]

A decatted RX8 that does 1000miles a year would produce far less emissions than some 60-70mpg ecobox that does 15000 miles a year.

Especially if the manufacturer has been proven to lie. I'm shocked that anybody still considers buying a brand new VW.

If the faked figures mean the tax is cheap, most people wouldnt actually care.

If mazda fluffed the figures for the rx8 and the tax was £50 a year rather than near £600, would you complain?

It wasn't 'fluffing' the figures for one model though was it, or even being generous with figures in their favour, as all manufactures are. VW fitted devices and cheat software specifically to fool emissions tests (by a huge margin) in over 11 million vehicles worldwide. The environmental impact of that is predicted to directly cause thousands of deaths in Europe alone. Impact studies are still being done in other territories. VW knew exactly what harm they would cause, and did it anyway on a huge scale.

People should care, I hope most do. If Mazda was caught doing that on the RX8 I would care and would hope Mazda be liquidated by governments and shot into the Sun. Anyone who's bought a new VW Group vehicle since the scandal emerged is IMO endorsing those killings... and has few morals. The recall program for affected models needs to be sped up and compulsory, not voluntary as it currently is. Otherwise any vehicle not 'fixed' should be taxed at the real rate of emissions.

It's the scale of the crime that's the real problem and can be hard to fathom. Especially as the majority of those models are incredibly popular cars.

[bigpete8]

Crikey that's a scary thought - the emission for an RX8 are actually worse than Mazda admitted....

[Scartlead]

as someone with multiple vehicles, i find the road tax system a complete joke. A decatted RX8 that does 1000miles a year would produce far less emissions than some 60-70mpg ecobox that does 15000 miles a year.
the fact you can more easily tax a vehicle for a month at a time is ok, but you are still paying a percentage of a pretty hefty bill.

Totally agree, could have written this myself. I see plenty of dervs , paying sub 150 a year tax, with serious smog coming out the back. Road tax should be based on actual road miles or within the cost of fuel, but that won't ever happen, the motorist cashcow is rolling onwards!

[warpc0il]

Some find it surprising, given that I drive a car that's famous for drinking fuel, that I support the idea of dropping VED in favour of an equivalent increase in fuel prices.

My 8 may only do 20mpg (on a good day) but she does less than 4k miles/year, and yet I pay waaay more VED/mile than 80% of the cars on the road.

[350matt]

the main reason for the high cost of fuel is that the government has a certain level of expectation when it comes to fuel tax
so when about 10 years ago when nearly everything started to get a lot more efficient in fuel use the tax revenue dropped off - so the tax% was ramped back up again to compensate now we have some of the highest fuel taxes in the world and one of the most efficient vehicle fleets in the world

so when you drive an outlier like a rexi its going to sting a bit

and yes road tax should be abolished and roll it into the fuel price its the fairest way

[kopite72]

I reckon our fuel taxes are higher in Ireland. Currently a litre of petrol is circa 1.45 of which the rats get a euro of that or thereabouts which is quite frankly extortionate.

Hurts even more being a rotary owner but what can you do? Switch to electric? No thanks, id rather walk

Diesel? Not a chance, hate the things, always have and I don't fancy a hybrid so I'll just have to suck it up like every other rotary/petrol owner, its maddening!

[warpc0il]

I still remember when diesel was quite a lot cheaper than petrol, at the pumps, but it was only used for trucks and vans.
Then diesel cars were introduced and people realised that they gave more mpg and the fuel was cheaper.
Then diesel cars became more popular.
Then the price of diesel become much high than petrol.

So what happens when plug-in electric cars become popular...

[PeteH]

So what happens when plug-in electric cars become popular...

Don't you be running thar car on that 'red electricity'. It'll stain all your cables, and the tax man will know......

[ChrisHolmes]

I still remember when diesel was quite a lot cheaper than petrol, at the pumps, but it was only used for trucks and vans.
Then diesel cars were introduced and people realised that they gave more mpg and the fuel was cheaper.
Then diesel cars became more popular.
Then the price of diesel become much high than petrol.

So what happens when plug-in electric cars become popular...

The grid will not be able to cope, especially as fossil fuel boilers are banned from installation in new properties from 2020 placing more demand on the grid at night in winter when the heating will be on as well as all those little cars being charged up.

[Delanor]

So what happens when plug-in electric cars become popular...

Realistically that will only happen when the infrastructure to support electric cars has been put in place (nationwide not just London) they are still working on creating support to fill pot holes in!

One thing at a time please.

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[nightfire10]

So what happens when plug-in electric cars become popular...

Don't you be running thar car on that 'red electricity'. It'll stain all your cables, and the tax man will know......

That'll be another industry for NI, "washing" the red out of the 'lectric

[Ainmhidh]

I did have an ironic chuckle to myself the other week when I saw that the London air quality tax means that, were I to be stupid enough to drive into central London, if I did so in the £20/year VED diesel Focus it'd cost me an extra £13.50(ish) per day over the congestion charge, but to do it in the nasty, polluting, petrol RX-8 (at £550/year VED) it wouldn't cost any extra at all.

[mi60o0]

Petrol is better than diesel. Plus how many rotary cars you have on the road. They should be exempt from ulez etc due the low number rotaries you have on the road.
Also they are full of bull***t one cruis ship pollute the same as thousands of cars and they want to open cruise ship port in Greenwich. They opened IKEA in Greenwich near Blackwall tunnel to and we already struggle with the Blackwall tunnel traffic before the IKEA.
As far I read they will extend the ulez inside North and south circle Road so any diesel even if you don't drive it will pay.

[bigpete8]

I did have an ironic chuckle to myself the other week when I saw that the London air quality tax means that, were I to be stupid enough to drive into central London, if I did so in the £20/year VED diesel Focus it'd cost me an extra £13.50(ish) per day over the congestion charge, but to do it in the nasty, polluting, petrol RX-8 (at £550/year VED) it wouldn't cost any extra at all.

They are considering a similar scheme for Newcastle and did point this out to one of my colleagues who drives a 13 plate Diesel ....

[New Duke]

I reckon our fuel taxes are higher in Ireland. Currently a litre of petrol is circa 1.45 of which the rats get a euro of that or thereabouts which is quite frankly extortionate.

Hurts even more being a rotary owner but what can you do? Switch to electric? No thanks, id rather walk

Diesel? Not a chance, hate the things, always have and I don't fancy a hybrid so I'll just have to suck it up like every other rotary/petrol owner, its maddening!

I have all three at the moment; petrol, diesel and fully electric. (clearly spending too much money on cars)

We try whenever possible to use the most appropriate/efficient car for the task at hand. So the electric for short or inner city journeys, the petrol for fun/track, and the diesel for very long journeys.

Unfortunately the current system penalises us for that and seems to want us to scrap the two fossil cars and spend our lives charging the electric at motorway services. Which is really expensive btw. Most roadside charging is much more expensive than people might think. Last week cost me £12.50 to recharge 60 miles of range... and still took 3 hours at the fastest socket available.

Pro rata that cost to filling up a modern diesel and a charge actually works out more expensive than diesel. But neither the car industry, motoring press nor governments will acknowledge that, they all maintain the line that running an electric is cheap. Can't let facts stop the hype train!

[kopite72]

lets all move to Saudi with our rotaries,with what they pay at the pumps we could all afford two rotaries as daily drives!! Is it true that they pay 20 cents a litre out there or something like that?

[Rotary Potato]

So ... anyone spot a discussion on RX-8 values anywhere around here?