Mustang Optional Extras and Tax Questions

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Currently shopping for a pre-facelift Mustang.
Found a very nice 18 plate in a colour I like which looks to be well spec'd.

They seem to be very well spec'd as standard.

Are there any options which you feel are essential to have?
Or any options you feel are ok to pass up on?

Also, being a March 18 car, would the VED be £145 or would it still be a higher bracket? (Unsure if list price was more than £40k).

Cheers

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MuscleSedan said:

Having a cheaper tax one is great but I just don't get the obsession there seems to be by some over it. Is anyone really dropping £30k on a 20 mpg car but another £8 a week on road tax is a deal breaker ?

I did end up buying an 18 plate pre-facelift car which obviously is in the lower tax bracket.
It was quite important to me to get a low-tax car but not a deal-breaker.

For me, it's more than the cost. For a start, my insurance and service are all around the same time of year. I tend to buy 12 months tax and pay for insurance outright - so a service, tax and insurance does add up to quite a bit of money in not a lot of time. Again, it wouldn't have been a deal-breaker but more of a bonus.

The main reason I wanted a low-tax car was selling it on.
In several years when it is worth 15-20k (or maybe less), I imagine the low tax bracket will make it easier to sell. I imagine the sort of people spending 15k on a 7 year old Mustang are very different to the people spending 30k on a 3 year old one and generally speaking, I think to some of the people who would potentially buy my car, having one in the lower tax bracket will help me sell privately.

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Nexus Icon said:

The only thing a 2018 facelift won't have is rev-matching on downshifts but I can't say I've ever missed that.

I would be more than happy to do that myself but the peddles are not positioned well enough...