Daniel_Corsa
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Registered: 21st Apr 04
Location: Wigton, Cumbria
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Originally posted by DaveB
I've got a 4 month old Golf Mk6 bluemotion as a company car.
Costs me around £40 a month in tax and gets great economy - 50mpg around town at 65mpg+ on motorway runs (which is 650miles to £50)
My economy was sub 45mpg before it was 'run in' - it's now got 8,000miles on it and the economy is now almost at book figures 
Is that including fuel / tyres / servicing etc or just the car and you maintain it?
One we had on demo had 1,000 miles on clock but was returning quite poor figures comapred to book, and I took it home on a good extra urban run.
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N3CRO
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Registered: 12th Apr 07
Location: Sandy, Bedfordshire
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You tell em Deano!
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DaveB
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Registered: 29th Dec 00
Location: Huddersfield
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quote:
Originally posted by Daniel_Corsa
quote:
Originally posted by DaveB
I've got a 4 month old Golf Mk6 bluemotion as a company car.
Costs me around £40 a month in tax and gets great economy - 50mpg around town at 65mpg+ on motorway runs (which is 650miles to £50)
My economy was sub 45mpg before it was 'run in' - it's now got 8,000miles on it and the economy is now almost at book figures
Is that including fuel / tyres / servicing etc or just the car and you maintain it?
One we had on demo had 1,000 miles on clock but was returning quite poor figures comapred to book, and I took it home on a good extra urban run.
That's £40 a month off my wage for 'the car' which includes tyres/servicing/bulbs/oil/maintenance/road tax etc
I don't get my personal mileage paid for, but at todays fuel prices, and with average monthly economy of 55-60mpg it works out at around 9p per mile. Well happy with that tbh.
At 1,000miles I was getting 35-40mpg. Can't believe the difference the mileage made. Also hot weather aswell; coming back from Brand Hatch a few weeks ago at a cruise controlled 75mph my mpg dropped 1.5mpg for every degree colder it got driving home LOL
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3CorsaMeal
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Registered: 11th Apr 02
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Originally posted by Nic Barnes
who cares? i drive massive fuel consuming cars and fuckin enjoy every second of destroying the environment. fuck em.
i agree, i would rather run the fuel supply out and let our childrens children not have to worry about stupidally high priced fuel, also once the fuel is gone there's a lot less reason for starting war 
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oceansoul
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Registered: 19th Jun 06
Location: Sunbury, Surrey
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Originally posted by 3CorsaMeal
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Originally posted by Nic Barnes
who cares? i drive massive fuel consuming cars and fuckin enjoy every second of destroying the environment. fuck em.
i agree, i would rather run the fuel supply out and let our childrens children not have to worry about stupidally high priced fuel, also once the fuel is gone there's a lot less reason for starting war
Or start a war over the little remaining fuel.
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antnee
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Registered: 30th Dec 07
Location: Cov Drives: Clio 197
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Originally posted by VXR
Im all for hippy green cars.
Less petrol used on those that don't care, means more petrol available for those of us that do.
(thinking 20-30 years down the line )
This.
We should be pushing for eco cars and alternative fueled vehicles so we as enthusiasts can still enjoy the petrol engine as we know it.
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JaffaTB
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Registered: 7th Oct 09
Location: Sheffield, South Yorkshire
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Originally posted by deano87
I just think the Government has completely lost the plot in taxing based on emissions - all cause damage to the roads, require road maintenance.
The government doesn't maintain our roads anymore and hasn't done for a long time going by state of them! 
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random dav
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Registered: 7th Jan 04
Location: NSW
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Originally posted by Ben G
another point for you i read today.
all these foreign lorries that come over, use our roads, pollute our country, do 600 million miles every year on our roads yet on average only fill up 10 litres of fuel on british soil.
they fill up their tanks to the brim on the continent where the fuel is cheaper then drive over here and use it all up.
so they basically get to drive on our roads and spend about £11 for 10 litres of fuel to do so.
madness.
They should be charged when they get off the ferry/back on it. We have to pay to use their roads.
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random dav
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Registered: 7th Jan 04
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Originally posted by Andrew
I'm all for saving money me 
Get some balls and buy the big engine car that you was going on about 
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ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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Originally posted by Ian
It's not based on emissions.
Ste emits more pollution out of his 1.3 diesel Corsa than I do out oy my 2.0 Astra simply because he does more miles than me.
If it were based on emissions, I wouldn't be paying over 10 times the road tax that he is.
The tax band is based on the Co2 emissions though.
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Nic Barnes
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Registered: 5th Apr 04
Location: nowhere near ginger people
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for newer cars ed. older ones is still capacity isnt it?
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ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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Yep, the change is now at 1.6 capacity too.
Also, Ste will pay more tax to use his car than Ian because he will require more fuel.
Also, I was merely making a remark to the people moaning about heavy cars and tax.
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Graham88
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Registered: 16th Apr 07
Location: South East Kent Drives: E46 M3
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I'm not bothered that much, or I wouldn't have bought my car, I just think it's a joke when there is more to a car than how much emissions it puts out. I don't care if the ozone layer is burning, I'm still driving over the same pot holes the person paying £35 is!
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