What Road Tax Will 2017 Registered Westfields Pay?

[elder]

2017 seems like a very long time away for most car buyers but for car builders it isn't. Has anybody looked at what the new rules are going to mean for Westfields?

 

This are a total guess but I suspect that assuming your Westfield cost less than £40000:

 

a Westfield registered in 2017 as new will pay £140 per year road tax.

 

a newly registered 2017 Westfield that carries an age related plate might continue to pay at the level of the donor - which if a non cat donor is likely to be around £260 - or will it count as a new reg & pay £140???.

 

A Westfield registered with a Q plate in 2017 will pay? ? ? ???

 

Any thoughts?

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Edited August 22, 2015 by elder

[CraigHew]

If you shoehorn a Dyson motor into the engine bay the vehicle excise duty will be £0

[elder]

Somehow an electric Westfield seems unexciting but with the next generation of batteries very near & much more energy dense than the current specimens we might all be going that way eventually. Not within the planning horizon of most builders however.

 

The question remains unanswered.

[Mark (smokey mow)]

RFL for kit cars is not emissions based, instead it is calculated on the pre-march 2001 catagories which for a car having an enine capacity of over 1549cc would be £230 annually.

I personally don't see this changing in 2017 as the IVA test only measures engine emissions, it does not include the other and more onerous tests required to calculate a g/km CO2 figure for the car which would otherwise be needed for it to be taxed any differently.

Nether the age of the donor and/or whether it is registered as a Q-or age related plate will affect how it is taxed.