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VRT will now be 100% Linked to Emissions

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  • #52
    daedalus2097
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 615 ✭✭✭daedalus2097


    The Atheist wrote:
    No, but if they pay for the emissions it makes at the same rates as everyone else, then they should be allowed drive what they like.

    Besides the whole engine size thing is not an accurate gauge of emissions.

    Very true... A larger, more powerful engine doesn't have to try as hard as a small engine that struggles with the weight of its own car. I get similar MPG from my 2.0l Golf and the 1.3l Fiesta I used to drive. The Fiesta would be flat out on the motorway, whereas I barely have to touch the accelerator in the Golf, and so the emissions are going to be not that much more (unless I drive the sh1t out of the Golf of course ;) ). Yet the road tax for the Golf is around double the Fiesta, and the VRT at the moment would be an order of magnitude higher for the Golf as it's a "desirable" car according to our Revenue friends...


  • #53
    unkel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65,725 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    galwaytt wrote:
    If it wasn't for the likes of (me, kinda..), Unkel would never be able to pick up the yokes he does, for the price he does.....

    Exactly. I love people buying expensive new cars and changing them often for even newer and more expensive cars. Far play them!
    galwaytt wrote:
    although we do have to listen to him afterwards..;)

    LOL :o

    Anyway I should keep schtum in future as my comments can only drive up prices of old luxobarges :D

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  • #54
    sesswhat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,177 ✭✭✭sesswhat


    galwaytt wrote:
    ...then you'd better hope all us new-car buyers don't take offence, or, worse, start buying second hand ones......

    Why? Easy -for a car to become secondhand, someone has to buy it new, first. So you, sir, are both suffering from 'funnel vision' as well as being rude.

    If it wasn't for the likes of (me, kinda..), Unkel would never be able to pick up the yokes he does, for the price he does.....(although we do have to listen to him afterwards..;) ), and nor would anyone else..........

    Likewise, Ned & ColmMcm are all feeding your habit..........there isn't a factory I know of punting out used cars.........

    As I've already said, there will never be a shortage of people willing to shovel their hard-earned cash at the Government to have a shiny new car.

    The rest of us are quite happy to let them take the big hit. Maybe thick is not the word but it's a particularly expensive form of vanity.


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