Our 2019 Peugeot 2008 1.2 litre puretech 130 EAT6 was £165 last Oct and will apparently be £180 next.

My 2005 Audi 6.0 litre sport quattro was £360 in Feb. My 'historic vehicle' 1980 2.0 litre TR7 was a big fat O - as usual!

That first one applies to any car under £40k list price registered after March 2017. I still think it's ridiculous that cars with the same 'band' CO2 emissions and likely better mpg bet stiffed for nearly £200 VED (my 17yo Mazda3 is group H and I now have to cough up £290 next time around (was £265 if I recall) - all for doing not much annual mileage.

Anyone buying a car between about 2012 and March 2017 had a 'sweet spot' if theirs was a relatively 'green' vehicle in the first three VED bands.

Far better to just stick it on fuel duty across the board in my view and be revenue neutral.

Is the 'zero rated for historical cars still doing the 'rolling 40yo' and more, or have the government stopped it and just put a date to stop cars thatobviously aren't 'classic' (like, say, a 1983 Ford Escort 1.3 petrol [one of dad's old cars which wasn't very good and broke down a lot).

A former Vauxhall dealer (now just sells second hand cars [no one make] as well as services Vauhalls and others) down the road from me has bought on PX an 08 plate Mazda3 MPS Aero. Looks very nice (no wheel well rust), but then I looked up what the mpg and VED rate was and, well, that was the end of that, given how low the former and very high the latter was, especially as I rarely do much mileage.