Omega Owners Forum
Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: tunnie on 10 April 2012, 15:22:30
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Popped across to BMW dealer at lunch today, mate I work with was looking at Z4's (not for me, way too small inside, could hardly fit in it) - Out of the bunch they had there I preferred a 2006 3 series, seats were mega comfy, not sure if the 'M' seats are different, but very nice.
Anyway, walked past a 6 month old M3 (very nice I might add), looked at the tax disc, had to do a double take on it.
£1,000 per year :o :o
You could buy a couple of Omega's for that ;D
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Reading into it, all band M cars are like that in the first year
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Popped across to BMW dealer at lunch today, mate I work with was looking at Z4's (not for me, way too small inside, could hardly fit in it) - Out of the bunch they had there I preferred a 2006 3 series, seats were mega comfy, not sure if the 'M' seats are different, but very nice.
Anyway, walked past a 6 month old M3 (very nice I might add), looked at the tax disc, had to do a double take on it.
£1,000 per year :o :o
You could buy a couple of Omega's for that ;D
SWMBOs mother has a Honda s2000 and that's £430 for 6 months and look at the state of the roads :o
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I think that only applies for the 1st registration and not to ongoing annual fee ...........
If you can afford a new M3 from £54k then the £1,000 included in the "on the road" charge isn't really an issue .........
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Popped across to BMW dealer at lunch today, mate I work with was looking at Z4's (not for me, way too small inside, could hardly fit in it) - Out of the bunch they had there I preferred a 2006 3 series, seats were mega comfy, not sure if the 'M' seats are different, but very nice.
Anyway, walked past a 6 month old M3 (very nice I might add), looked at the tax disc, had to do a double take on it.
£1,000 per year :o :o
You could buy a couple of Omega's for that ;D
SWMBOs mother has a Honda s2000 and that's £430 for 6 months and look at the state of the roads :o
RX8's are another 'normal' car that fall into the super-tax bracket.. Which is nuts; costs the same to tax a Maybach!
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Popped across to BMW dealer at lunch today, mate I work with was looking at Z4's (not for me, way too small inside, could hardly fit in it) - Out of the bunch they had there I preferred a 2006 3 series, seats were mega comfy, not sure if the 'M' seats are different, but very nice.
Anyway, walked past a 6 month old M3 (very nice I might add), looked at the tax disc, had to do a double take on it.
£1,000 per year :o :o
You could buy a couple of Omega's for that ;D
SWMBOs mother has a Honda s2000 and that's £430 for 6 months and look at the state of the roads :o
RX8's are another 'normal' car that fall into the super-tax bracket.. Which is nuts; costs the same to tax a Maybach!
Any post-2006 petrol car with reasonable performance will, especially if it likes a drink like the RX-8.
.. Maybachs are owned by the super-rich, and taxing them is bad for the recovery.. apparently. :-X
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Reading into it, all band M cars are like that in the first year
Yup, seem to recall the media tried labelling it the Showroom Tax
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Maybachs are owned by the super-rich, and taxing them is bad for the recovery.. apparently. :-X
Your problem is that, because the previous government encouraged bone idleness for the lazy, you run out of rich people to pay for those who don't want to work, so it stars hitting the not-so-rich
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Gulp! Guess a Monaro is no better? :o
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Gulp! Guess a Monaro is no better? :o
Only an issue if you buy brand new ;)
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Popped across to BMW dealer at lunch today, mate I work with was looking at Z4's (not for me, way too small inside, could hardly fit in it) - Out of the bunch they had there I preferred a 2006 3 series, seats were mega comfy, not sure if the 'M' seats are different, but very nice.
Anyway, walked past a 6 month old M3 (very nice I might add), looked at the tax disc, had to do a double take on it. £1,000 per year :o :o
You could buy a couple of Omega's for that ;D
That's the advantage to year of registration......M3 was the formerly M-Tech/M-Sport and the road fund licence fee is a lot cheaper for the latter :)
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My Brother has an older M3, it is a right 'Hairdressers Car' even his elder daughter said the same to him.... :y :y :y
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My '57' plate M3 was £460 (or something like that) per year. The £1000/year is the first year only :).
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My '57' plate M3 was £460 (or something like that) per year. The £1000/year is the first year only :).
Why/What is this? not heard of it before..... :-[ :-[
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My '57' plate M3 was £460 (or something like that) per year. The £1000/year is the first year only :).
Why/What is this? not heard of it before..... :-[ :-[
Introduced in 2010, details about half way down the page: http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/OwningAVehicle/HowToTaxYourVehicle/DG_10012524
Just think, if you could still buy an Omega the first years tax on a 3.2 would be £1030.00.. Dropping to a mere £465 after that.
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My '57' plate M3 was £460 (or something like that) per year. The £1000/year is the first year only :).
Why/What is this? not heard of it before..... :-[ :-[
Introduced in 2010, details about half way down the page: http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/OwningAVehicle/HowToTaxYourVehicle/DG_10012524
Just think, if you could still buy an Omega the first years tax on a 3.2 would be £1030.00.. Dropping to a mere £465 after that.
Thanks :y I think I will go and buy a Bond Mini Car, should be cheap enough to run.... :D :D :D
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Gulp! Guess a Monaro is no better? :o
Only an issue if you buy brand new ;)
Still Circa £450 a year after the first year ???
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I made it much easier on myself by just thinking its £8.65 a week :). Although its still unbelievably expensive!
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I made it much easier on myself by just thinking its £8.65 a week :). Although its still unbelievably expensive!
Aha! SO you're the target demographic for the Govt's new plan ;)
I jest, but I posted before on this - when they said they are looking to restructure VED payments I'm convinced this is what they mean; they'll make it weekly/monthly by direct debit and everyone will go "Oh, not so bad then!" ..
.. then they can slowly jack up the price. Because, really, what's so different about £9 a week? or £10? Weekly, not a lot.. over the year? ...
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I made it much easier on myself by just thinking its £8.65 a week :). Although its still unbelievably expensive!
Aha! SO you're the target demographic for the Govt's new plan ;)
I jest, but I posted before on this - when they said they are looking to restructure VED payments I'm convinced this is what they mean; they'll make it weekly/monthly by direct debit and everyone will go "Oh, not so bad then!" ..
.. then they can slowly jack up the price. Because, really, what's so different about £9 a week? or £10? Weekly, not a lot.. over the year? ...
This is exactly what happened with petrol. Once they started selling it in litres it didn't look as expensive as gallons. And who's gonna complain about 1p a litre increase? They might, though, complain about 4.5p a gallon increase!
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I made it much easier on myself by just thinking its £8.65 a week :). Although its still unbelievably expensive!
Aha! SO you're the target demographic for the Govt's new plan ;)
I jest, but I posted before on this - when they said they are looking to restructure VED payments I'm convinced this is what they mean; they'll make it weekly/monthly by direct debit and everyone will go "Oh, not so bad then!" ..
.. then they can slowly jack up the price. Because, really, what's so different about £9 a week? or £10? Weekly, not a lot.. over the year? ...
Of course they will, thing is no one does anything about it now, and I'm afraid you have to look at it in a positive way to overcome how expensive it is. It's half the reason I now no longer own the car.
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Gulp! Guess a Monaro is no better? :o
Only an issue if you buy brand new ;)
Monaro's fall into the £463 bracket. Though I only pay for six months, she's SORN'd the rest of the year.
Holden ceased production of the Monaro in 2005 or there abouts. A new VXR8 will be £1000.00 for the first year.