Friday 22nd February 2008

New Porsche Website Fights C-Charge Rise

German firm creates website dedicated to its fight against new £25 charge

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Porsche has shown how serious it is about battling the new £25 Congestion Charge by setting up a website dedicated to its threat of legal action.

The firm argues that it is ‘yet another tax on London and the motorist’ and is a disproportionate rise.

Not only will the charge hit drivers of sports cars, such as Porsches, it will impact on families who use people carriers, the company says.

Porsche claims the hike will not make any meaningful difference to the environment and the CO2 saved in a whole year is the equivalent, at most, to just a few hours of emissions from Heathrow Airport.

The site www.porschejudicialreview.co.uk has been set up to explain more about the carmaker’s case.

It also gives drivers the chance to add their names to an online petition that will be presented to London mayor Ken Livingstone.

[kentmotorcompany]

Just signed it.
Good for Porsche. Its great to see one of the big boys standing up for what so many of us believe.

[urban_alchemist]

kentmotorcompany said:

Just signed it.
Good for Porsche. Its great to see one of the big boys standing up for what so many of us believe.

+1

[GingerWizard]

Just signed that bad boy, Red Ken can go swivel as far as i am concerned, just because he is a enviro nutter with little or no intelligence. Global warming? Save the V8!

The Ginger Wiz

[hornetrider]

Superb. Signed.

[dxb335d]

Very good, i wish more Car manufacturers would stand up to the evil tt.

[jimmy_mac]

About time too. +1

[Beaver]

+1 and forwarded

[DamoLLb]

lets hope other companies follow suit, well done porka! signed

[Agoogy]

Website content is a bit repetitive.... but I don't care about that so much as I care about disproportionate tax levies and, the motorist getting targeted when business have yet to make any relevant grade let alone the basic one modern cars already have

[pbarlow0032]

+1

Of course, it could just be a magnificent ploy to get lots of people's addresses for the mother of all Porsche related mail shots!!

In seriousness, i'm relieved someone with sufficient money and power (Porsche) have decided to make a stand. I go to London perhaps once per year, so wouldn't really impact on me, but i'm not naive enough to thing such a charge will remain confined to London

[SystemParanoia]

signed

[minicab]

signed also....

I have also emailed Daimler Chrysler UK asking for their stance, and urging them to follow Porsches suit. Whether they will or not is another matter!

[Negative Creep]

Signed

[shalmaneser]

+1

Down with Red Ken!

[mikemass]

Well done Porsche! lets hope other companies join in

[awg454]

Just Signed, come on lotus/Aston etc lets see you have a go to.

[KEX]

Good on 'em. As an E46 M3 driver I am 100% with this.

Commie fecker needs to be put in his place. Good on Porsche.

Signed.

Edited by KEX on Thursday 21st February 16:28

[Cliffv8]

don't even live in london but signed, its only a matter of time before the rest of us get this commie st

[Noor]

Signed..

And the best of luck to Porsche UK

[MoleVision]

and signed again... now what else can we persuade Porsche to legally challenge.. maybe our democratically elected PM.