From: Martin Gutkowski <webmaster@xxxx> Reply-To: doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To: doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [doc] #2727 now road worthy Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 14:18:13 +0100
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
>
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