So I'm a little confused about road taxing for the S2000. From what I've read on Parkers the S2000 will only temporarily be in band K if registered before March 2006.

Mine is due this month and DVLA says band K still, which is obviously good.

Is it next year that we're going to be charged £425?

 

Unless it has changed since I last did my research if your s2 is registered BEFORE 23rd march 2006 you will pay £245 a year. After and your in 400+ territory.

 

If the S were still available it would be £750 a year! Maybe thats why it isn't. As it's actualy band L, K was a consession for the older cars.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring...le/DG_10012524

 

Road tax is an absolute joke...

Why do i pay £425 to do 3000 miles a year when some guy/girl does 30000 in a diesel focus and pays £125? I'm pretty sure the focus will polute the environment more than the my s2k!!!

 

Road tax should be reduced to an administrative fee and the rest added to fuel duty. That would be the fairest way to do it.

Just worked out that if a litre of petrol was increased by 20p a litre that would cover what I currenly pay in road tax (@ 5k miles a year).

 

Yeah I've wondered about this too and what the government's response would be to it.

It should be on a mileage system although I'm not sure how it could be enforced. I can just imagine lots of people suddenly saying that they only drive 3,000 a year even when they don't.

I understand why it has to be paid for upfront but it would be alot handier if I could pay my tax by direct debit. I'll never be able to pay for a full year

 

They'll never scrap road tax and add the excess to fuel, main reason being because it'll hit business (especially transportation) hard!

Likewise they'll continue to batter people on the road tax/petrol price front in an attempt to try and conserve fuel deposits meanwhile generating huge sources of revenue (win win situation)

Global warming is completely fictional, the US know this hence why they have done very little about it.

Truth is fossil fuels are expected to run out within the next 30 years. Unfortunately without these fossil fuels we won't be able to power our national grid. There are options but the most suitable is considered to be nuclear. Unfortunately nuclear power stations cost a fortune (something that the government have known about for over 50 years but failed to budget for). Global warming is just an excuse to generate enough revenue to fund the required nuclear power stations. If the government were to openly acknowledge the fact that they have known about this requirement (and failed to put money aside) for half a century then there would be massive uproar, hence why global warming was "invented"

 

So does this mean that Pre 2006 cars will stay in band K indefinitely? Parkers seems to think this is only temporary.

Agree with the sentiments about mileage and road tax. There would be too much protest about an increase in fuel duty though. Perhaps if transportation could claim some of it back. That sounds like a lot more paperwork though!

That's a fine conspiracy theory. At the risk of this degenerating into a global warming thread, the body of evidence from 90+% of the world's climate scientists doesn't seem to be enough for some people...

 

just read that cars > 225g co2 registered before 23 march 2006 would be put into band K until at least 2010/11, so nothing concrete about if/when this rule would no longer apply.

http://www.parliament.the-stationery...80514w0012.htm

 

Thanks for that.

Seems from the wording of that it's unlikely they will keep the reduced rate next year.