New Touareg

Mr Lahey

A guy i know picked up a new touareg in the last few weeks. He traded in a 06 model and got a fair few extras as well. Its a 2.5tdi, came in at just under 80k. When i heard he had one on order i asked him had he looked up the co2 emissions (239g/kg). He was completely oblivious to the new rules which come in today. He's going to get a fright when he goes to tax it next year and revenue ask him for 2k. What i'm asking is were dealers being completely honest in the last few months when a customer came in looking to buy a 08 which will be hammered by the new tax bands. I'm pretty sure if the dealer had told him he probably would have opted for something like a 520d instead. I'm sure that even people with a few bob wont want to pay 2k a year tax.

listermint

Well trick with dealers is to do your own research. Sorry for your mate but by all means he should have done some background with what he was purchasing.:o

NiSmO

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RobAMerc

he wont have to wait till next year to find out either - he'll find out next week if it wasn't registered before today.

And no - the dealers were not being honest - a Ford dealer in March told my buddy that the Mondeo tdi was due to increase in price by about 3 k and €500 the following week because of an internal Ford thing so he'd better buy today - and thats total gibberish

AlanD

He's ok, he has a choice of tax systems now. He can stay paying tax on the cc based system or he can choose to go on the C02 based system. This was designed to not penalise people who may have bought low C02 cars in 2008.

So it's no big deal.