New Car Tax Banding - you will be shocked!!

Riq

They are doing it in the belief will help 'save the planet'. People need to use their cars, sometimes you have to drive.

I can either have a 40 minute drive to work or a 2hour bus journey.
I know which one I would rather do!
I hopefully will be moving closer to work soon so should be able to get the bus from then on.

tomstickland

It only has a 1.3 litre engine, it must churn out so many emissions to get those 192bhp!

It's effectively a 2.6 since every combustion chamber fires once per rev which doubles the throughput.

Riq

Effectively yes, but not quite!

MrsE_2

DKLS wrote: »

Was expecting the worst but mine only goes up £15, not bad for something that does 23mpg

I get 28.1 according to the car read out thingy on the dash.

I worked this out to cost me about 15p per mile, does that sound right?

I could not get the first bust to work, do my full hours & get the last bus home. The buses start too late & stop too early.

anewman

tomstickland wrote: »

It's effectively a 2.6 since every combustion chamber fires once per rev which doubles the throughput.

Trying to think how that works in terms of this.



Four-stroke cycle (or Otto cycle)
1. Intake
2. compression
3. power
4. exhaust

Probably best leave the thinking to the Mazda engineers

Ok found this.... Fascinating



The Wankel cycle. The "A" marks one of the three apexes of the rotor. The "B" marks the eccentric shaft and the white portion is the lobe of the eccentric shaft. The shaft turns three times for each rotation of the rotor around the lobe and once for each orbital revolution around the eccentric shaft.

Keith

I think it is disgraceful. Sooner labour are out of power the better, if we wanted green taxes we'd vote for the Green Party.

MrsE_2

Keith wrote: »

I think it is disgraceful. Sooner labour are out of power the better, if we wanted green taxes we'd vote for the Green Party.

You ever read George Orwells - Animal Farm?

New labour - old pigs.

anewman

Green taxes that drop bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan and pay for prestige cars for MP's.

goldspanners

where was everyone at the budget?
i thought this was old news.

Tucker

Roll on March 2009...........

Car tax £300, fuel £1.50 per litre, gas and electric another 15%, Council Tax another 5% - wages............... eerrr just been offered a final offer of 1.9%.

This is the party for the working class and run of the mill family right?