Comments on: Why does this government hate motorists so much?

By: Bazman

Bazman — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:35:27 +0000

Forget diesel, hybrid, bangers, and small cars. Allow Baz to enlighten you as to the cheapest way to get around, and maybe save the planet, or at least do your bit in a family sized car. Drum roll for the fours……..!
A four year old ex-business man Mondeo for four grand with forty thousand motorway miles, from a main Ford dealer. No risk, full service history, with a four month warranty.
Keep the car pefectly maintained with your friendly inexpensive local Indian garage. Easy to repeat anywhere.

By: Adrian Windisch

Adrian Windisch — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:28:35 +0000

John is correct that the energy cost of building new cars should be taken into account, but so should the ineficiency of old cars. So much fuel is wasted, a newer small car will save money and fuel, and pollute less.

Its a myth that the cars are getting more expensive, compared to other transport its getting cheaper. And much older cars ‘lassic cars’ are tax free, buy something before 1973 and pay no car tax. Or buy something with a very small engine and pay

By: Steven_L

Steven_L — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:59:27 +0000

After the initial anger I thought more about the idea of increasing taxes on old cars.

Surely the used market would correct itself for this extra tax burden, meaning that the owners of large old cars would be losing extra money through depreciation, which would be effectively hoovered up by the treasury.

The price of big old cars would go down further than it already is. No one would throw away a perfectly good car, the market will simply discount the new taxes into the price of the big old car. The new lower prices of big old cars will attract new buyers.

Big old cars are already very cheap. You can buy a good seven year old BMW 7 series, an Audi A8 or a Jaguar XJ8 for

By: Bazman

Bazman — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:51:43 +0000

The motorist is an easy target in any country at any time for any government. Cheap food, fuel, housing, government.
In Canada the Conservatives are on par politicaly with the Greens and by the United Nations the best county in the world to live in!?!

By: Steven_L

Steven_L — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 19:03:32 +0000

So they want to increase my taxes on my old car? If they clobber me for having an old car I’m going to clobber them back buy stocking up on all my booze and cigars from France and Spain - enough is enough!

By: Cliff

Cliff — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:58:51 +0000

They believe that they will price people out of their cars. This is fine in our large cities with good transport services, but it is sheer madness to believe we in Wokingham could get about on public transport.
Again, in order to get people onto public transport it needs to be affordable, available and safe. Buses start too late to get non office people to work and stop running befor people even go out of an evening, let alone for the journey home. There are gangs of intimedating drunken teenagers on many of the services that do run especially at weekends. Railway stations are unmanned and full of teenagers.
The fares are sky high….Seaford Rd to Broad Street

By: Peter Turner

Peter Turner — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 13:33:39 +0000

There could well come a time in the near future when the economic life of the country is affected by the number of its citizens who are thrown out of work because their licences have been taken away from them.