Good News From The Budget

[daveyjp]

VED bands have been revised - now up to band M.

With emissions of just 109 g/km the Aygo sneaks into the new Band B of VED meaning a charge of just £20 a year from 1 April 2009! And from that date if you buy a new one the first year's tax is £0.

[weevicky]

Now only if they would reduce the cost of petrol...

[Cokeman]

It is worth having 2 Aygo's at that price, one for thrashing, one for cruising.............

[Batfink]

All the savings certainly make it worth having been blown all over the motorway today!

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[Red Yaris 54]

It is worth having 2 Aygo's at that price, one for thrashing, one for cruising.............

One for each foot? ;)

[Aimee]

meh, they may have put the petrol increase on hold.. what the hell was the point? in 6months time theyll probs increase it by twice as much as they wouldve done this week!

remember when i passed my test back in 2006 and petrol was a lovely 82p a litre!

god, imagine how much itd cost to fill an aygo up with that... its £30 at the mo for me... itd be like, £25 full tank!

[Dinky_05]

when did my test it was 32p.....oh dear....!

[Aimee]

lol.. its mad to think u cant even buy a chocolate bar for that these days! lol

[Cokeman]

when did my test it was 32p.....oh dear....!

Sorry to say that when I passed mine in early 70's, I could get 4 gallons for about £1.50............ :(

[Jan van de Wouw]

As I'm not from the UK and couldn't Google any proper answers: what's a "VED band"???

Vehicle Emissions something???

Is it something like the "Energy Labels" we have in The Netherlands???

As over here the Aygo is rated Label A, being most clean in its' class and as of

April 1st (no joke) road tax is being HALVED for cars with less than 110g/km for CO2!!!

[feldman]

As I'm not from the UK and couldn't Google any proper answers: what's a "VED band"???

Vehicle Emissions something???

Is it something like the "Energy Labels" we have in The Netherlands???

As over here the Aygo is rated Label A, being most clean in its' class and as of

April 1st (no joke) road tax is being HALVED for cars with less than 110g/km for CO2!!!

Vehicle Excise Duty: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_excise_duty

It used to be based on other criteria, but nowadays it's based on emissions. :)

[Jan van de Wouw]

Very helpfull, tanks!

[adilmon]

VED bands have been revised - now up to band M.

With emissions of just 109 g/km the Aygo sneaks into the new Band B of VED meaning a charge of just £20 a year from 1 April 2009! And from that date if you buy a new one the first year's tax is £0.

EXCELLENT! I’m confident that the overall revenue for the tax man will be greater, but I don’t really care.

Used to be called Road Fund License, but the people in charge changed the name to VED because they want to use the money however they please, instead of on the roads/public transport