Slight thread drift - related to the VED starting point, but a country mile away from the £40k threshold...
VED due letter for SWMBO’s eight year old Golf 2.0 TDi arrived earlier in the week. It’s Euro 5, so ‘dirty’ in the eyes of our enlightened leaders. However, the CO2 emissions are 114g/km, so it still falls into the £30/year category that it’s always been in.
Happy with that and didn’t feel the need to pay an additional £1.50 to spread the cost over 12 months! ;-)
...just seems odd that in these days of demonising diesel, they’ve not gone to town on some punitive increases here. We live in a village with off street parking and our local town hasn’t banned DERV yet, so at the moment, we’re still ok.
It’s likely to be replaced in the next 12 months by a petrol vehicle, but a house move is likely first and I’d rather plough money into that than a new motor. Famous last words, but so far it has been a paragon of reliability over nearly 90k miles.
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