Alfa failed its mot
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I totally agree, you could buy a ford probe or mx6 uk spec for about £500-£600 swap the engines over and sell the probe or mx6 for £500-£600 lol. all you would pay for would be labour
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even if you brought an mot failure or write off mx6/probe, the engine should still be good, buy for £2-300, get what you need, then scrap it and get £100 for it.
Its not something Im going to even look into tbh, there are newer, more econimical and yet more powerful cars around, finding a nice styled one is the hardest part, imo the 90's vehicles where the best of style and uniqueness, few cars come with a v6 lump nowadays, I dont even know of any, theres the odd inline 5 or 6, a few v8's but thats about it, of the 90's youve got the MR2 mk2, Scoobaru Impreza, Skyline, Supra, Evo, Celica, Calibra, Omega, MX6, Probe (dont like this car but it isnt a run of the mill car) 350z, FTO, GTO, RX7, 200sx, CRX, and of course the MX3, a whole bunch of undoubtedly cool, unique, stylish and powerful cars. What have we got from 2000 onwards? Theres the odd revamp or update, such as the impreza, but what else? Nothing, sadly most manufacturers have given up on the sports car for the common man, or trying to push the limits of technology of the time to create something unique and awesome and are now just doing your VERY average family/commuter car.
Whod have though that a decade later, the minds behind the Supra, MR2 and the Celica would be churning out Yaris's? Mazda is atleast just staying shy of the same tar brush by having the RX8, but thats not more than a stones throw from the RX7, which was done in the 90's. With this decades worth of cars, Im sorely disappointed, there just isnt anything for a person on a normal wage to aspire to own,. All in all its been a good decade to start a family, cos theres been fk all else to save your money for.
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Jesta are you forgetting the Mazda 3 and 6 both come with a MPS edition fella putting out 260 bhp and very nicely styled may i add…
a mazda 3mps can be had for as little as 5k now...
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need to find out about this mps, if its not awesome then it doesnt count :P
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ok just found that, ok thats pretty tasty, was at the point of thinking Id get one in a few years, then I checked the tax band. £445 a year, nearly fell off my chair!
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@35216e713c=Jesta:
ok just found that, ok thats pretty tasty, was at the point of thinking Id get one in a few years, then I checked the tax band. £445 a year, nearly fell off my chair!
yep the only drawback i could see too..
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@74e2a0271b=Jesta:
ok just found that, ok thats pretty tasty, was at the point of thinking Id get one in a few years, then I checked the tax band. £445 a year, nearly fell off my chair!
Ill stick to older cars thank you very much haha
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how on earth are they expecting people to buy that? I mean come on now, thats just ridiculous! I guess it aint mazdas fault, more the government, but thats just stupidly priced, I thought the £200 my car costs was pricey lol
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£200 is cheap jesta. The new range rover V8 petrol… be ready for this....
£900 for the first years tax! Then it goes down to the more managable £445. so, olets say you have just bought one, you then have to get to the post office and fork out another £900 just to drive it anywhere. that is sick!
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If you can afford to buy a brand new V8 range rover, you can afford to pay £900 to tax it!!
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well yeah, but even so, thats far too much either way, i know that its in good cause, it forces people to consider cars that are more environment friendly, but there has to be a limit of normality, whats with the first year thing anyway, surely that makes no sense?
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Normally when you buy a new car its 'on the road price' so the dealer will pay the road tax, probably double so the government can make as much money as possible, any excuse
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pay enough in fuel tax, youd think theyd just get rid of road tax with the amount of money they rake in from petrol
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They cannot get rid of road tax, it pays for the dvla and its the only way to keep check on who owns what annually, you get rid of tax you get rid of people registering it in their name
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@7e166b3b0c=djmarcopolo:
They cannot get rid of road tax, it pays for the dvla
**Not true since the 1960s. Road tax was originally ring-fenced for motoring purposes, but taxation was homogenised - all tax goes into the Treasury and all things funded by tax are paid out by the Treasury.
Council tax is the exception, but this is charged by local councils and not by the Treasury.**
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@eda89f79db=Famine:
@eda89f79db=djmarcopolo:
They cannot get rid of road tax, it pays for the dvla
Council tax is the exception, but this is charged by local councils and not by the Treasury.
Another fascinating fact about council tax is that over 40% of what you pay each month goes to paying pensions for public sector workers :evil: :evil:
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@20d36c470b=djmarcopolo:
@20d36c470b=Famine:
@20d36c470b=djmarcopolo:
They cannot get rid of road tax, it pays for the dvla
Council tax is the exception, but this is charged by local councils and not by the Treasury.
Another fascinating fact about council tax is that over 40% of what you pay each month goes to paying pensions for public sector workers :evil: :evil:
What can be done though? make it all pvt? what about the poor 11k a year man? i am classed as a publc sector worker and the pension rules have changed so it not such a great deal for younger people it was capped off a few months ago. Its funny to me that 40% of my tax goes back into my wages.
yeh and something about an alfa erm they are unreliable lol
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haha yeah this thread fell way off topic didnt it. oh btw im the 11k man :( wages in cornwall are the lowest in the country.
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i'll be back in a 3 soon ;)
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LMFAO