Vauchall drop list price of top spec EVs to under £40k

[Back2theFuji]

I did wonder if this would happen! Let's see if anyone else follows suit...to be fair Vauxhall didn't have to drop much to get beneath the threshold.

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/consumer/vauxha...

Edit: Excuse the subject typo, more coffee...

[ChrisH72]

I'm not sure manufacturers could care less generally?

What's probably frustrating with Vauxhall is that they always seem to offer big discounts. A Grandland EV may have a list price just over £40k but you'll get it for mid 30s in reality. Makes sense for them to chop a bit off list to make it look more attractive. What do they do next year though, keep prices the same?

I'm still not into EVs but I do find it a bit wrong that you would be paying £610 a year from years 2-6 just to tax an electric family SUV. I thought the whole bases of VED was emissions?

[Sixsixtysix]

ChrisH72 said:

I'm not sure manufacturers could care less generally?

What does this even mean? Do you mean couldn't?

[Pistonheadsdicoverer]

Stellantis is selling the Peugeot E3008 for less than £28K
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202502048...

[ChrisH72]

Sixsixtysix said:

ChrisH72 said:

I'm not sure manufacturers could care less generally?

What does this even mean? Do you mean couldn't?

No.

It means what it says.

And if you can't work out what it means then I couldn't care less.

[ThingsBehindTheSun]

What does it matter, nobody is buying one of these cars with their own money. These are all going to end up as Motability cars with a cash bonus to the person who takes out the agreement to sweeten the deal.

The sort of people who are so excited about being given £500 that they don't think about how impractical an EV will be when they live on the 14th floor of a tower block.

[Dingu]

ChrisH72 said:

I'm not sure manufacturers could care less generally?

What's probably frustrating with Vauxhall is that they always seem to offer big discounts. A Grandland EV may have a list price just over £40k but you'll get it for mid 30s in reality. Makes sense for them to chop a bit off list to make it look more attractive. What do they do next year though, keep prices the same?

I'm still not into EVs but I do find it a bit wrong that you would be paying £610 a year from years 2-6 just to tax an electric family SUV. I thought the whole bases of VED was emissions?

Emissions haven’t affected it for years, aside from £0 for electric which has ended.

[Crudeoink]

ChrisH72 said:

I'm still not into EVs but I do find it a bit wrong that you would be paying £610 a year from years 2-6 just to tax an electric family SUV. I thought the whole bases of VED was emissions?

It was only ever really based on that they could get away with. We already pay a tax on emissions as the more thirsty cars use more fuel .....

[sixor8]

List prices have been mostly irrelevant for years now.

The annoyed ones will be those to rushed to buy in March only to find it's devalued even more now. Not EVERY new EV is Motability or lease, that's drivel. Loads of us got Honda eNy1 on PCP, for example. wen they slashed the price 12 months ago.

[Huzzah]

sixor8 said:

List prices have been mostly irrelevant for years now.

The annoyed ones will be those to rushed to buy in March only to find it's devalued even more now. Not EVERY new EV is Motability or lease, that's drivel. Loads of us got Honda eNy1 on PCP, for example. wen they slashed the price 12 months ago.

Isn't a PCP essentially a lease type product but with an option to buy?

[ChrisH72]

I know this is the old model but when you can buy one a year old with 5k miles for £15k I'd say the VED is the least of your worries.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/2025032706...

[griffter]

Surely the point of this thread isn’t a few hundred off the list price. It’s the fact that vehicles under £40k (RRP - what you pay is irrelevant) do not qualify for “luxury vehicle tax” and are thus much cheaper to run for the first few years.

It’s always baffled me why any car would be priced new between say £40k-£45k. Surely it’s a no brainer to price it at £39,999, avoid the tax and sell more cars.

Pistonheads. RRP matters.

[Sheepshanks]

Huzzah said:

sixor8 said:

List prices have been mostly irrelevant for years now.

The annoyed ones will be those to rushed to buy in March only to find it's devalued even more now. Not EVERY new EV is Motability or lease, that's drivel. Loads of us got Honda eNy1 on PCP, for example. wen they slashed the price 12 months ago.

Isn't a PCP essentially a lease type product but with an option to buy?

Technically, yes, but a lease normally includes VED. The cost of leases is so all over the place it’ll be hard to tell if they’ve absorbed the extra cost or passed it on.

[Pickle_Rick]

Hoping porsche do the same now

[Teflondon]

ChrisH72 said:

I know this is the old model but when you can buy one a year old with 5k miles for £15k I'd say the VED is the least of your worries.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/2025032706...

I suspect that car is a unrecorded repaired vehicle going on the description, it goes on about the folding mirrors not working aswell which would be a warranty repair by vauxhall. They obviously don't want vauxhall seeing it.