… and what is more recommended by a committee of MPs headed by a Tory.
Work for the committee showed that when the purchase price and the CO2 emissions were taken into account, the VED on the biggest cars was proportionately about half that paid on the smallest cars.
A wealthy businessman being chauffeur-driven in a luxury Bentley Arnage R V8 auto, a petrol-driven saloon costing £160,203, will pay only 42p per gram of CO2. But the owner of a humble 1.3 litre Ford Ka costing £7,395 pays 68p per gram of CO2 and the driver of the 1.3 litre Toyota Yaris which costs £11,290 about 74p per gram of CO2.
“Tax differentials between higher- and lower-carbon cars must be made much wider if they are to drive market transformation,” the committee said.
Not that I can imagine any of my readers would be so anti-social, but if you were to earn one such I’d recommend getting rid of it quickly – they’ll be – they’ll HAVE to be, priced off the road soon.
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