987 2.7L Road Tax bands

[EversmannGT]

Hi,

Could someone please advise on the tax bands and if anything changed much by year.

This looks a bit weird
http://www.parkers.co.uk/cars/advice/road-tax-guid...

Cheers

[woodysnr]

I had a 2006 987 2.7 and paid a staggering £485 Now got a 2011 987 Spyder 3.4 and it is only £285 the saving pays my insurance at £190
A lot is down to year of make 2006 cars suffer badly

Edited by woodysnr on Monday 10th August 23:48

[EversmannGT]

Cheers. I take it yours was an early 2006?

http://www.parkers.co.uk/cars/advice/road-tax-guid...

Looks like it dropped to 290 for the 2007 model year (engine upgrades 2.7L 180 kW (245 PS; 241 hp))

[woodysnr]

EversmannGT said:

Cheers. I take it yours was an early 2006?

http://www.parkers.co.uk/cars/advice/road-tax-guid...

Looks like it dropped to 290 for the 2007 model year (engine upgrades 2.7L 180 kW (245 PS; 241 hp))

It was a March 2006 a lot of early cars not just Porsches suffer this high banding...

[juansolo]

Yep, the 2007 2.7 is the lower tax band.

[uknick]

The 987.1 2.7l is a £285 per year car if you have the 5 speed box. If you have the 6 speed option it goes to the higher rate.

[kingston12]

It is worth looking for a car registered before 23rd March 2006 or after 1st August 2006 IIRC.

All 2.7 cars registered prior to 1st August 2006 have emissions of 229g/km which officially put them into band L which is now £490 per year. However, any car registered before 23rd March 2006 has an exemption which takes them down into band K, currently £290 per year.

After 1st August 2006, the new model had reduced emissions which put it in band K anyway (the threshold is 225g/km.). Therefore it is only cars registered between the two dates that attract the higher tax.

As these cars get older, the £200 a year saving becomes increasingly attractive.

[EversmannGT]

kingston12 said:

It is worth looking for a car registered before 23rd March 2006 or after 1st August 2006 IIRC.

All 2.7 cars registered prior to 1st August 2006 have emissions of 229g/km which officially put them into band L which is now £490 per year. However, any car registered before 23rd March 2006 has an exemption which takes them down into band K, currently £290 per year.

After 1st August 2006, the new model had reduced emissions which put it in band K anyway (the threshold is 225g/km.). Therefore it is only cars registered between the two dates that attract the higher tax.

As these cars get older, the £200 a year saving becomes increasingly attractive.

Cheers. Does the 5 speed / 6 speed case (previous post) still apply? (So, If I look for one prior to 23rd March 2006, does it have to be 5 speed to target the lower tax band)

[woodysnr]

The latest Spyder 3.8 engine puts it at £490 +£850 for first year registration Ouch

[jakesmith]

Although the £200 difference isn't huge when considering the total cost of ownership, it was particularly galling paying £500 tax for my old 2.7 when it was registered only a few days too late for the March 26th band K discount. Unlike a big service or repair, you get no betterment out of a tax disk.

The irony wasn't lost on me when I chopped it for a 997 C4S that uses about 40% more fuel, but which was in the lower emissions category

[JackReacher]

Slight thread drift, but do all Gen 2 caymans fall into the lower tax rate, i.e. not the most expensive?

[kingston12]

EversmannGT said:

Cheers. Does the 5 speed / 6 speed case (previous post) still apply? (So, If I look for one prior to 23rd March 2006, does it have to be 5 speed to target the lower tax band)

Not as far as I am aware. I am pretty sure that the rule is that any car registered before that date falls into band K regardless of emissions.

I have a 2005 3.2S which has higher emissions than any of the 2.7 and I am paying £290.

[kingston12]

woodysnr said:

The latest Spyder 3.8 engine puts it at £490 +£850 for first year registration Ouch

That is pricey, especially considering a lot of the 3.8 911s sneak in below the 225g/km limit.

The new tax bands coming in from 2017 are quite punitive on cars costing over £40k. Buying a Spyder then will cost £1,700 in the first year, £450 for the next 5 years and then £140 a year after that.

[kingston12]

jakesmith said:

Although the £200 difference isn't huge when considering the total cost of ownership, it was particularly galling paying £500 tax for my old 2.7 when it was registered only a few days too late for the March 26th band K discount. Unlike a big service or repair, you get no betterment out of a tax disk.

Indeed. I have owned mine for 5 years, and the way I see it, the discount in tax has effectively paid for all of my servicing and minor repairs in that time. I doubt that a £200 a year saving is enough to add anything to the resale value, but worth having if planning to keep the car for a while.

jakesmith said:

The irony wasn't lost on me when I chopped it for a 997 C4S that uses about 40% more fuel, but which was in the lower emissions category

That is where my understanding runs out. How can a car consume that much more fuel and still push less emissions out of the exhaust? I can understand different levels of efficiency, but aurely there must be a limit?

[woodysnr]

Another scam by the government to get more money out of us motorist..nothing to do with co2 emissions or am I just being cynical

[FrankCayman]

I seem to remember the 987 2.7 Boxster had a revision in 2007 to VarioCam Plus which gave a 5bhp increase in power and a reduction in road tax.

[jakesmith]

kingston12 said:

That is where my understanding runs out. How can a car consume that much more fuel and still push less emissions out of the exhaust? I can understand different levels of efficiency, but aurely there must be a limit?

Au contraire, my 997 is pre March 2006 so despite being far worse for fuel and emissions, slips into the earlier lower K band praise the lord

[Chocaholic]

Sorry for resurrecting what seems to be a dormant topic, but like many, I can't really get my head around this tax banding. I have a 2.7 Tiptronics Boxster, first registered on 27th June 2006. Its emissions are stated as 250 G/Km. I am now paying £735 a year road tax, made even more staggering when you take into account that in the last year, I have driven it less than 300 miles.
Not much of any incentive to keep it for much longer, sadly!

[Popolou]

Something's not right there. Paid £415 last February and checking now, it will be renewed at £430 from March. This is for a MY06 987 3.2s....

[kingston12]

Chocaholic said:

Sorry for resurrecting what seems to be a dormant topic, but like many, I can't really get my head around this tax banding. I have a 2.7 Tiptronics Boxster, first registered on 27th June 2006. Its emissions are stated as 250 G/Km. I am now paying £735 a year road tax, made even more staggering when you take into account that in the last year, I have driven it less than 300 miles.
Not much of any incentive to keep it for much longer, sadly!

Indeed, it's a huge amount anyway, but more so for those being run as second cars which most of these probably are by now.

I ran mine as a 'main' car for a long time, doing around 2,000 miles each year. It's now a second car, doing half that. Mine is in the £430 band which is a significant saving, but it still means that the VED costs me almost as much each year as fuel, servicing, MOT and insurance combined!