A "Modern Classic" with low VED rate.
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Having it seems sold my slightly older "modern classic" today, (VED £375) and it's raining and wife is watching the tennis, I was musing what Modern Classics are out there with low VED rates, It's going to be post 2001 as before that it was a blanket £375 unless older than 40 years.
Can't afford one, and likely can't get in or out of one but the Alpine A110 is I believe £200.
Can't afford one, and likely can't get in or out of one but the Alpine A110 is I believe £200.
Anything before the 2006 megatax banding kicked in is fair game to me - 40 quid a month is realistically all I want to pay to tax a toy.
Not at all similar to the suggested Alpine but I've just picked up a 4.2 X350 XJ for £1200 - certainly feels like a classic from the inside!
Not at all similar to the suggested Alpine but I've just picked up a 4.2 X350 XJ for £1200 - certainly feels like a classic from the inside!
Edited by captain_cal on Sunday 7th June 18:02
Huzzah said:
Machine guns in the boot? Had one Merc, some distant years ago, wouldn't necessarily jump to another. Interesting option non-the- less.captain_cal said:
Anything before the 2006 megatax banding kicked in is fair game to me - 40 quid a month is realistically all I want to pay per month to tax a toy.
Not at all similar to the suggested Alpine but I've just picked up a 4.2 X350 XJ for £1200 - certainly feels like a classic from the inside!
Thinking £200 max maybe, what with the family Volvo and wife's Mini Cooper both being £35 and son's i10 less than £200, I was thinking £375, or more than £31/month was a bit much for it to sit in the garage most of it's life.Not at all similar to the suggested Alpine but I've just picked up a 4.2 X350 XJ for £1200 - certainly feels like a classic from the inside!
Interested to hear how you get on with the Jaguar, after a lifetime of 2 door, 2+2 coupes and 2 seater convertibles it would be nice to be able to get all three adults and maybe the dogs in so we could all go out together.
Skyedriver said:
Thinking £200 max maybe, what with the family Volvo and wife's Mini Cooper both being £35 and son's i10 less than £200, I was thinking £375, or more than £31/month was a bit much for it to sit in the garage most of it's life.
Interested to hear how you get on with the Jaguar, after a lifetime of 2 door, 2+2 coupes and 2 seater convertibles it would be nice to be able to get all three adults and maybe the dogs in so we could all go out together.
47p a day difference. If you’re worried about that, I wouldn’t buy another car. Interested to hear how you get on with the Jaguar, after a lifetime of 2 door, 2+2 coupes and 2 seater convertibles it would be nice to be able to get all three adults and maybe the dogs in so we could all go out together.
Closest to an A110 is either a lotus elise, vx220 or a boxster.
Edit seems im confusing modern classic with sportscar. None of the above are £200 road tax, more like £445.
£200 roadtax certainly won't get you anything particularly sporty, just a fairly small engined car.
Edit seems im confusing modern classic with sportscar. None of the above are £200 road tax, more like £445.
£200 roadtax certainly won't get you anything particularly sporty, just a fairly small engined car.
Edited by brillomaster on Sunday 7th June 17:09
Cristio Nasser said:
Virtually all TVRs, except the very last few produced. Job jobbed.
The very last few TVRs were such low volume that they mostly have no emission data, so even post April 2006 cars as well as post March 2001 cars pay VED as an LGV, presently £360 p.a. Slightly less than a pre 2001 car. I have read threads of owners of TVR Tuscans that have (unfortunately) emissions data, and some Cerberas too, so a V5c and an online check would be advisable.
Mr E said:
Add lightness 
Even a 1.1 Citroën saxo is £225 a year... harder to get much lighter or slower than that.Maybe a kei car. Honda beat or suzuki cappuccino maybe...?
Edit. Even a 1998 honda beat is £225 a year. Im out of ideas for lower tax, unless there are any diesels you consider modern classics... plenty of yaris, clios, puntos, prius...
Edited by brillomaster on Sunday 7th June 17:35
Not when it's knocking on £800 for some cars made between 2006 and 2017. It's likely more than the value of some of them!
Like it or not, it is one of the reasons so many BMWs with the 3 litre turbo diesel engines have become popular 2nd hand. Even standard, before they get remapped and basically ruined, they are quick.
Old Mercedes diesel cars from the 1980s are now in the 'classic' bracket, but whether the likes of the 335d ever will be, only time will tell. Personally, I think the SLK 250d, even with adblue, may make it in the end from the low VED bracket.
Like it or not, it is one of the reasons so many BMWs with the 3 litre turbo diesel engines have become popular 2nd hand. Even standard, before they get remapped and basically ruined, they are quick.
Old Mercedes diesel cars from the 1980s are now in the 'classic' bracket, but whether the likes of the 335d ever will be, only time will tell. Personally, I think the SLK 250d, even with adblue, may make it in the end from the low VED bracket.
Leins said:
911Spanker said:
Tax is sod all cost in the grand scheme of things. I don't understand why you wouldn't just buy what you want.
The UK still has one of the lowest VED schemes in Europe too. A 2004 Merc S320 here in Ireland is 1809 pa, for example, and a 2008 E92 M3 is 2400 paPeople saying it's still cheap if it's nearly £800 don't get why us tight gits think this way. Why pay £800 when you could halve that or more by a bit of research ie buying a car that's a year older or a different model with a similar vibe.
Personally, I'd look at an older Audi TT (Mk2 for the lower tax) or some other coupé or roadster with a small engine.
Personally, I'd look at an older Audi TT (Mk2 for the lower tax) or some other coupé or roadster with a small engine.
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