Gordon Brown has just explained on TV that he has increased road tax on certain cars, including Freelanders, to reduce pollution. As he is always right this means that when we pay £400 per year tax our emissions will automatically improve. How does this happen? Maybe these clever people will put a chip in the tax disc so that when we put it on our windscreen it sends a signal to our ECU and cleans things up.
I hope they don't intend to make our cars too expensive to run and so have more room on the road for themselves. No, they are not nasty like that are they?

Don't think he'll do much for pollution however just think what he'll do for unemployment, when car makers start making people redundant

increases only affect new cars - the £400 tax band is for the big petrol guzzlers and cars before 2001 are taxed the same as any other car

I don't call my 53 TD4 Auto a gas guzzler, I will be paying £400. The motoring public has not yet woken up to the new road tax rules.

In actual fact, pollution in London has increased since the introduction of the congestion charge, due to the increase in the numder of dirty taxis and buses on the road.

You couldn't make it up!

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Why are the taxis "dirty". Under new rules introduced I think last year, all taxis licensed for London have to comply with the Euro 4 emissions standard so in theory should not be contributing to pollution.

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shirley that only applies to new registrations?
and dunt ferget, there's zillions of "minicabs" in London.

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Not ter mention that they always take you the scenic route, so where you would have travelled 1 mile to get somewhere, they will take you 5 - and then they have to go back again!

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Does a vehicle registered before March 2001 not guzzle coz if not i'll swap my September 01 TD5 for one registered before March of that year

You are rather optimistic to think you can do a swop. Your September 01 has gone down in value while a pre March has gone up. Unfortunately I sold a pre March 01 immaculate SAAB a couple of years ago, I could not afford to buy it back now!