Engine size and road tax

[four-wheel-drive]

I have recently got a 2007 truck with 2.8cc TD in it and it really peas me off that the road tax is £500 p/y over £200 more than the same truck made in 2005 not happy with it but I will live with it as I could not find a good 2005 one.

 

My question is not that I intend to do it as I have nether the skill or now how but if I could change the engine to a maybe 2ltr newish petrol one or even put an electric motor in it I have seen it done on youtube so not dreaming would the tax band change or would it be fixed with what it came with in the first place.

[Davyo]

I think its more to do with the C0'2 rather than the engine size.Tax i dont know if this would change as its usually based off the time of registration.I may be wrong maybe someone in the know would know.

On the other side,my wifes car has had a full Ford engine mod & remap taking an additional 79bhp.It has not effected the road tax at all as the Ford Mountune papers stated that its still £0 to tax.I could advise if the C0'2 was effected by the Mountune upgrade.

[Twistedsanity]

My 07 3.2 shogun was nearly £ 500 pa, my 1997 5.7ĺ camaro is only about £200

[Chris Bb]

The road tax was the main reason I got rid of my 09 Defender, it was cheaper to run two alternative cars!

[Jay_Russell]

The tax on my truck is about 120 a year... the joys of the euro 4 concession 😊😊

[figgy]

My Audi is band K so cheaper if bought six months later would have been £500 a year now.

 

Always best to look before you buy.

[subsonicnat]

2004 onwards is the cutoff point I believe.

So mine is 1998,lol.

[four-wheel-drive]

I think that it is late 2005 that it changed but that does not imply that later more modern ones are at the high rate as it goes on what comes out of the exhaust rather than the engine size some quite big engines are or can be quite clean in what comes out of the back. I think that they should be encouraging people to use lpg my old 4ltr petrol Jeep ran mostly on lpg but they still made me pay full road tax on it something that annoyed me very much when it was much cleaner that a diesel at the same tax rate.

Edited December 21, 2016 by four-wheel-drive

[Guest]

It's not the size of the engine .its what the emissions are example if the Range Rover had low emissions it would have low tax .

I had a kia

 

sorento 2.5 (2005) tax was£280 new model is a lot lower as it's less emissions.

The antara I have now 2.2 diesel is £220 the antara se is more same car but it's 4x4

[Hamster]

https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-tax-rate-tables/rates-for-cars-registered-on-or-after-1-march-2001

 

K* 201-225 £295 £295 £309.75 £162.25 £154.88

*Includes cars with a CO2 figure over 225g/km but were registered before 23 March 2006.

Pretty sure the cut off is as above. As stated by a few others it's not engine size but co2 emissions i.e, how successful the manufacturer has been in twisting the agreed set of performance data to misrepresent the true MPG figures.

Having said that I have run 3.0 litre diesel SUV cars which destroy family 1.6 petrol ones in economy terms so the quoted figures aren't completely false.

[Lord O War]

My mate has a 3L diesel Audi and I think his tax on that is less than my 2.2L tdi Mondeo! But then it is a VAG car and emissions probably aren't what they say LOL

[old'un]

It's not the size of the engine .its what the emissions are example if the Range Rover had low emissions it would have low tax .

I had a kia

 

sorento 2.5 (2005) tax was£280 new model is a lot lower as it's less emissions.

The antara I have now 2.2 diesel is £220 the antara se is more same car but it's 4x4

Looked at the Antara 4x4 but it's had some really bad press that put me off it (bit like the old Frontera) as a matter of interest what are they like off road? And real life driving.