IS250. £1000

[Heaveho]

I'm in the ridiculous situation where I've been offered a 100k mile Lexus IS250 for a grand, but it's a pointless purchase because it's a 56 plate and the tax is £750 a year. The car isn't faultless, it has brake judder, I suspect it has a seized caliper, it needs a rear wheel balance, and the paint is far from perfect, but the fundamentals of the thing are sound, and I'd buy it in a heartbeat at that price normally. I could have it virtually mechanically and aesthetically mint for a few hundred quid.

This is the position you find yourself in when a Govt has not the vaguest idea of the damage it's doing with naive and ill informed attempts to apply tax to perfectly serviceable vehicles with little knowledge of the subject matter at hand. This is a car that is going to end up in a breakers yard for no good reason because an empty suit has reacted in kneejerk fashion to provide an answer to a question no-one has asked. The same car on a 2005 plate is £430 or so to tax.

What a waste of a quality vehicle.

[quigonjay]

Such a shame so many older but very usable vehicles will end up the same way, stealth scrapage scheme, ridiculous really isn't it, so much C02 saved by not buying a new vehicle yet they tax you out of existence

[soad]

Must be a manual, as autos usually cheaper to tax?

Some say: 57 plate-onwards are able to run on E10.