I'd like to think that people are finally learning that having new cars all the time on PCP isn't necessarily as great as it seems - but that seems unlikely.

The makers will see to that. And as making and looking after cars is such a large part of the economy, so will the government.

Edited by Andrew-T on 10/11/2018 at 09:09

Indeed - that's what I said on the comments below the report.

I'm still amazed at how so many people buy cars (likely the second most expensive thing they'll like to ever buy) after carrying out such little research (especially when quite a bit only takes a few minutes searching on the internet), or as seems to be the case quite often in the backroom (see today's thread about the 'SUV choice') completely disregard sound advice because (IMHO) that OP's ego wouldn't admit they've gone the wrong route to start with. Often we don't hear from them again.

OK I agree the original purchaser should have done some research on the VED and I wonder why it was not on the dealers invoice but who would expect such an eye watering tax on a car like a Kuga in the first place. The real issue here is the TAX on cars and like houses the affordability is moving further away from the average purchaser.

Well, let's have no tax on anything...

someone has explained why. wltp and that's it.

Buy a non harmonised vehicle.. pay more. by a £250000 ferrari pay £40000 in tax, simples,...

and I don't notice the Rolls Royce owners moaning about their ved...

The irritating thing is that older cars have much higher VED than newer ones due to CO2 emissions. But the environmental impact of building a new car is far greater than keeping an older 'polluting' car on the road. VED for cars older than say seven years old should be kept very low.

For older diesels VED should be quadrupled to drive them off the roads...

The VED should be spent on planting new woodland areas, millions of trees, no billions.