Tax disc

[maintenanceman]

Originally Posted by rover54

The tax rate is the rate when the car was registered. You can take a car with a very low tax band, tune it up, supercharge it, create more exhaust pollutants than say a 4 x 4 gas guzzler and you will still pay the same tax rate as a bog standard non-modified car. You car's output will be governed by the map in your ECU, so you new 'engine' will be chucking out 116bhp. Get it xpowered and have the extra gee-gee's.

Got to agree with this! My other car is an mgb and there are several pre-tax mgb's on the scene that have been tuned up to the eyeballs including V8 3.5 conversions that still pay no tax! I guess that if this strategy brings in more revenue either by increased VED or by new car purchase similar to the scrapage scam we'll see more of this. Shame really - I loved the auto box in my old 800.