www.iht.com/articles/124902.html
"Subaru car is becoming a 'truck' to sidestep U.S. fuel rules"
Only in America - the Outback is to become a 'truck', so it can continue to be nice & polluting ! Bit like all those double-cab truck things that are sprouting up everywhere over here - since they're trucks as far as the VAT man is concerned they're cheaper to run than your Mr Farmers Off-Road vehicle - nice to know where your tax goes !
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Bit like all those double-cab truck things that are sprouting up everywhere over here - since they're trucks as far as the VAT man is concerned
Hmmm. Not necessarily. The VAT man is seriously confused about whether these are trucks or cars because they meet the defintions for both classes. So they look at the individual purchaser. If they historically bought vans or trucks and now have a double-cab which they say is for carrying workmen then its a truck. If they historically bought saloons and admitted they were for private use, but now have a double cab and want to claim the VAT back, Mr Customs & Excise deems it a private-use vehicle.
So there's no problem in Subaru suddenly deciding their car is actually a truck. Over here, the same vehicle can be either in different hands, depending on what the owner used to drive (but don't any more).
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And of course you have to be VAT registered to claim it back, which rather implies that you're a commercial enterprise in the first place.
This is a bit different from the American issue, though, where 'trucks' have to meet lower emission/safety standards and Detroit forced the definition threshold down to protect home producers. Looks like it's backfiring already...
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Taxman makes rules, any sensible man in the street plans legitimate avoidance. Logical evolutionary event. Crew cabs make excellent sense, especially with 4WD and BULL_bars....
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Taxman makes rules, any sensible man in the street plans legitimate avoidance. Logical evolutionary event. Crew cabs make excellent sense, especially with 4WD and BULL_bars....
And a nice big V8 burbling away under the hood/bonnet/front bit.
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>> Taxman makes rules, any sensible man in the street plans legitimate >> avoidance. Logical evolutionary event. Crew cabs make excellent sense, especially with >> 4WD and BULL_bars.... >> And a nice big V8 burbling away under the hood/bonnet/front bit.
The bigger the better! No substitute for cubes.
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