Help needed on Company Car please!

john_white

bigjl wrote: »

What does that have to do with the question about a company car?

But as it worries you so much they likely have a different tax code than you do.

Or that is the annual salary they are paid and the take home figure included the mileage allowance as mentioned in the OP

Open forum I can ask questions if I like.

Iceweasel

bigjl wrote: »

If you don't know then I am not going to explain it.

Thank you for your informative reply - I hope you get well soon.

photome

bigjl wrote: »

If you don't know then I am not going to explain it.

Why not, isnt this what the forum is about, you even said it was a strange comment suggesting that others may not understand

photome

These are approximate figures

my current company car has a list price of around £18200 with emmissions of 124g/km and I pay about £52 extra tax a month.

bigjl

Iceweasel wrote: »

Thank you for your informative reply - I hope you get well soon.

You really don't understand the socio economic benefits of purchasing big ticket items like cars that are made in the UK?

Even more so wheb the majority of the cost is being bourne by somebody else

I am not unwell in any way.

However i do have significant sympathy for somebody with such a narrow viewpoint.

Buying UK produced vehicles includes Lotus, Jaguar, Land Rover, Mini and Caterham.

Before you even get to Nissan, Toyota, Honda and Vauxhall. Sadly Ford only make engines at Dagenham and that may end soon.

I haven't touched on vans etc as my knowledge is limited.

Though Police cars and Ambulances are for the most part produced/converted in the UK, even if some of the base vehicles and Ambulance chassis are not.

And i put my money where my mouth is for most of my Ambulance career by driving the LDV Convoy vehicles even though it meant more lifting, that position was in no way related to the 3.5 Rover V8 with carbs atall, no, definately not.

Yes, i have bought French cars, German cars, Japanese cars.

But i started off with an Austin A40 mk2 Farina, Black over Red. Went to a Brown Allegro. Then went a bit boy racer for a few years.

But i am now back in the fold with a Jaguar XJL.

I would never argue that it has the grip of a Quattro A8L or the technology of an S Class or 7 series.

But you know what it does have.

Character.

And you can't put a price on that.

My next car will hopefully be another one of the same.

bigjl

photome wrote: »

Why not, isnt this what the forum is about, you even said it was a strange comment suggesting that others may not understand

As per my last post.

If you don't understand why supporting the economy and jobs in your own country is important then i can't really help you.

One thing i admire about the French and Germans is they are extremely loyal to their own car makers.

We should all consider buying from out country of origin if we can do so.

And above i never even touched on Aston Martin!

timbotambo

It depends what your company deal is! For example, in my previous role I was offered £330 a month car allowance with a choice of cars from a list, or a £5k cash allowance to buy what I want. I choose the company car and for a BMW 320d efficient dynamics I paid £68 (something like that) a month tax. Everything else to do with the running of the car was included, except fuel for personal use (obv) and oil.

Incidentally, being super-low emissions (109g/km of co2) meant a £30k 163bhp car with 0-60 time of 8 seconds and 68mpg worked out cheaper per month that a similar spec Focus/Golf etc, and way cheaper that a woefully underpowered Mondeo/Insignia.

photome

bigjl wrote: »

As per my last post.

If you don't understand why supporting the economy and jobs in your own country is important then i can't really help you.

One thing i admire about the French and Germans is they are extremely loyal to their own car makers.

We should all consider buying from out country of origin if we can do so.

And above i never even touched on Aston Martin!

In the context of the OPs question, its all irrelevant.

I assumed like others I guess that you meant there was some sort of tax benefit to buying a UK built car as that was what the Op was talking about.

I don't need a lecture from you about where I should buy a car from

Prothet_of_Doom

bigjl wrote: »

If you don't know then I am not going to explain it.

Can I explain it? Whilst most car manufacturers are global operations, with parts and sub-assemblies coming from all over the globe, the assembly in the UK at least guarantees that some workers being paid in £ notes got a share of the price paid.

If you buy a FORD, with a Diesel Engine, the chances are that the engine will have been made in Dagenham. If you buy a BMW, the engine will have been made in Hams Hall Birmingham, if you buy a mini countryman the assembly will be in austria but the engine might have come from the UK.

Unfortunately it is difficult to find out WHAT PROPORTION OF UK hours went into the manufacture of a car, compared with other countries, as the supply chains are so complex.

Hence if the final assembly was in the UK, at least some unknown proportion was from the UK.

Prothet_of_Doom

bigjl wrote: »

One thing i admire about the French and Germans is they are extremely loyal to their own car makers.

The french were gutted when Rover went down.

Conversation I had years ago with a French Engineer, in a sister company, who had been forced to buy a component off us, by head office rather than one off our competitor.

Said in an Hello ello commody accent "We would not have chosen to buy a solenoid in the UK, and would rather have used Sagem instead, and are surprise at the efforts you are making on the quality" :T

Anyway, won't German Buyers of BMW's be surprised to find the engine comes from Birmingham ? :rotfl: