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NFR Car Tax.

Started by battersea boy, February 13, 2026, 01:58:55 AM

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battersea boy

This is a first for me...Road Tax more expensive than Insurance.
 Mercedes C180 Kompressor Coupe,drives like a dream 69000 miles.
  £340 Road Tax
  Insurance £306.

Jaguar2013

Don't know what mine will be, currently I pay £20 due to adblue and low emissions.

Dodgin



Woolly Mammoth

#3
By the Beard of Zeus.

Luckily for me I have a Horse & Cart.
Although I expect this current odious communist establishment who are the original inventors of horse manure, and are themselves very un Stable will find a way of taxing my horse Dobbin and his sister Neddy some time in the near future, it is extortion of biblical proportions. .
They both already have long faces.
After dark it will be potentially a night Mare.
Its not the man in the fight, it's the fight in the man.  🐘

Never forget your Roots.

Jim©

Car tax just another one of the myriad of stealth taxes that we get hit with.
My car is 3 years old and costs £695 I think per year. If it was new now, the first year tax would be £2190.
Criminal.

ScalleysDad

1972 series 3 landrover. No tax, £90 fully comp with restrictions and ULEZ compliant. Bonkers.


alfie

Pay a lot of money for your car to be on the road, then pay another lot to park on the road you have already paid to be on.
Story of my life
"I was looking back to see if she was looking back to see if i was looking back at her"
Sadly she wasn't

Snibbo

Car registration (Vehicle Excise Duty) does not pay for roads.

Jim©

Quote from: Snibbo on February 13, 2026, 10:40:28 AMCar registration (Vehicle Excise Duty) does not pay for roads.
Though supposedly a larger chunk of it goes to transport infrastructure. Which means that it's all been blown on HS2- which has now, incredibly/stupidly/infuriatingly, become the most expensive railway in the world.


H4usuallysitting

Quote from: battersea boy on February 13, 2026, 01:58:55 AMThis is a first for me...Road Tax more expensive than Insurance.
 Mercedes C180 Kompressor Coupe,drives like a dream 69000 miles.
  £340 Road Tax
  Insurance £306.

Can you do my hair at 2

H4usuallysitting

Quote from: Jaguar2013 on February 13, 2026, 08:48:37 AMDon't know what mine will be, currently I pay £20 due to adblue and low emissions.

Is that part of your 5 a day

H4usuallysitting

My next motor will almost certainly be 100% electric.... current one is hybrid


Holders

Just spent £997 yesterday on MoT repairs due to potholes in the roads.
Non sumus statione ferriviaria

iansthailand

Quote from: alfie on February 13, 2026, 10:29:48 AMPay a lot of money for your car to be on the road, then pay another lot to park on the road you have already paid to be on.

Brilliant Alfie.

St Eve

Quote from: battersea boy on February 13, 2026, 01:58:55 AMThis is a first for me...Road Tax more expensive than Insurance.
 Mercedes C180 Kompressor Coupe,drives like a dream 69000 miles.
  £340 Road Tax
  Insurance £306.

If it makes you feel better, I now live in the States and my Mercedes insurance is 1,500 per year. Insurance here is out of control. House insurance 5,000 per year, health insurance 12,000 per year.


Dodgin

Car insurance for over 80s is criminal

H4usuallysitting

Quote from: Dodgin on February 13, 2026, 12:58:52 PMCar insurance for over 80s is criminal

Yep...all over 80's should be in prison

Craven Mad

Quote from: Dodgin on February 13, 2026, 12:58:52 PMCar insurance for over 80s is criminal

It would be a lot more affordable if regular re-testing was required after a certain age.
 
It's expensive because statistically there are too many older people behind the wheel who aren't capable anymore.


Woolly Mammoth

There are far far more younger people behind the wheel, that never will be capable,
Its not the man in the fight, it's the fight in the man.  🐘

Never forget your Roots.

_Putney_

Quote from: alfie on February 13, 2026, 10:29:48 AMPay a lot of money for your car to be on the road, then pay another lot to park on the road you have already paid to be on.


Yes but parking is a luxury. You could always keep driving around in circles.