Budget 2015

[FROSTYBALLS]

Vehicle Excise Duty - see extract from Honest John: http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/road-tax/budget-2015-new-ved-bands-to-be-introduced-from-2017/

The Government will also consult on extending the first MOT due on cars and motorbikes from three years from first registration to four years from first registration.

[Parts-King]

I have never liked the idea of extending the MOT interval, some drivers never look at their car from a maintenance point of view from one year to the next!

[Cyker]

Ugh what are they thinking??

It just seems like its penalising people for buying low emission cars!

And on top of that it means nobody will give a crap about their car's CO2 emissions any more and we could easily see a return to monstrosities like my old Fiesta and it's tiny engine and massive CO2 output!

On the other hand I supposed this removes engine restrictions so we'll probably see less diesels in favour of high-powered CO2-spewing engines. Why go to all that R&D into making an complex and expensive small low-CO2 engine when you can whack in an old cheap to build CO2-spewing monster?

I think we will be seeing a lot more larger and turbo-charged petrol engines after 2017...

[MikeSh]

Ugh what are they thinking??

It just seems like its penalising people for buying low emission cars!

And on top of that it means nobody will give a crap about their car's CO2 emissions any more and we could easily see a return to monstrosities like my old Fiesta and it's tiny engine and massive CO2 output!

On the other hand I supposed this removes engine restrictions so we'll probably see less diesels in favour of high-powered CO2-spewing engines. Why go to all that R&D into making an complex and expensive small low-CO2 engine when you can whack in an old cheap to build CO2-spewing monster?

I think we will be seeing a lot more larger and turbo-charged petrol engines after 2017...

I don't think so. For one thing the CO2 emissions are generally closely related to fuel economy and you can bet that fuel duty won't be dropping. So then as now, if you do a reasonable mileage fuel economy is going to be more important than VED. For low mileage drivers this will make gas guzzlers slightly less unattractive, but that's not a big deal.

Turbo-charging is already used to get power with decent economy, so I'd expect to see more and more of those regardless of this VED change.

[FROSTYBALLS]

Ugh what are they thinking??

It just seems like its penalising people for buying low emission cars!

And on top of that it means nobody will give a crap about their car's CO2 emissions any more and we could easily see a return to monstrosities like my old Fiesta and it's tiny engine and massive CO2 output!

On the other hand I supposed this removes engine restrictions so we'll probably see less diesels in favour of high-powered CO2-spewing engines. Why go to all that R&D into making an complex and expensive small low-CO2 engine when you can whack in an old cheap to build CO2-spewing monster?

I think we will be seeing a lot more larger and turbo-charged petrol engines after 2017...

Emission standards (CO2, NOx, etc) will continue to be important to manufacturers - they will still need to comply with emissions standards like Euro 6 in order to sell vehicles within the EU. So, for owners in the UK, the emphasis on CO2 emissions may not be as much to the fore as regards choosing a vehicle as they have been, but compliance with ever more restrictive emissions standards will still be there.

The need to reduce emissions isn't going away.

[Parts-King]

There will be more smaller, petrol engined turbo units like the new 1.2 in the new Auris, low emissions with bags of power for the size

[Heidfirst]

"I think we will be seeing a lot more larger and turbo-charged petrol engines after 2017..."

I doubt it, remember that the UK is only a small % of the total EU car market plus it takes years to design, prototype, test, tool for & mass manufacture a new engine design.

On the other hand I expect that we will see in the UK editions of cars designed to just squeak under the £40,000 list price (I am sure that the govt. will go by list price & not the deal that you managed to get ...)

[YarisHybrid2016]

This looks to me like they're setting up for road pricing!