Re: [doc] #2727 now road worthy

[Martin Gutkowski <webmaster@xxxx>]

Not quite - emissions only apply to NEW cars registered after Sept 2000. 
This is why we can legally remove the cat etc etc and get away with 
non-catted noisy twin turbos :-)

Martin

Daniel Willis wrote:

> Erm.. it's bad.
>
> We used to have a system of say £80 for six months and £160 for a year (was 
> less) but then it changed to engine size.. so little 1100cc engines got away 
> with £100 a year etc. The DeLorean was always going to be top bracket...
> Now tax is measured on the Co2 emissions of a vehicle. Clean gets cheap... 
> dirty (more powerful/diesel) gets expensive.
> However this only applies to cars REGISTERED after September 2000 (correct 
> me if I'm wrong)... and since my car is a new reg it gets emissions rated. 
> 2.8 V6 is automatically top bracket again! (typical)
>
> Dan