Why these 12 mainstream family cars now fall in the ‘luxury’ tax bracket

www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/features/vehicle-excise-d.../

Sporage, RAV4 etc. are mentioned here. When people talk about luxury cars, Kia or Toyota don't come on people's minds, rather they think of Merc, BMW, Audi, JLR, Volvo - if not Ferrari, Maserati, Bentley etc. Considering, Sportage and RAV4 are not even most expensive cars in respective line ups.

Nobody is arguing that list prices for new cars are getting ever higher, but there is a long way between luxury and budget. The only way I might consider anything north of £20k as a budget car, would be if I was stinking rich!.

Thanks to the explosion in popularity of leasing/PCD, (what I would consider) budget cars are very much a dying breed. That may change if the Chinese brands get serious about making inroads into all segments of the UK new car market, but as I said, they will all be electric. Which is clearly not going to suit everyone at the moment, but maybe in 10 years time?.