With all the tax hikes and further threats, big-engined cars are fast becoming the new cigarettes. But is the Government right to target 4x4s, executive limos and sports cars? Tell us what you think. Do you believe the dirty-pawed fat cats who buy them deserve to be soaked, or is the Government unacceptably reducing our car choice in the name of ecology?

I think the way the Goverment is pulling this extra tax for those cars is crude. You KNOW we're all over 'taxed' anyway just so they can secretly mess about in some of thier own veichles, I don't agree with those pathetic people in range rovers at all, but use full Land Rovers and Defenders up on farms and are used there only should NOT face such a thing. What do they know anyway, I saw Gordon Brown picking his nose on the tele WHILE Tony Blair was doing a speach, I don't even know what it was about now, or ever because it was so disstracting. AND some sports cars are ran on poo, you know so they are so unfare, but limos are horrid. I hope this ends up on the right page this time.

we live in a rural area so need the the 4x4 for the weather plus you are in a better position to see the road ahead better. Because this is our car i have to use it to go into the town and city to do shopping, go out pick kids up etc,so to some people this is excess. I think the government should try and claw the tax on a more fair level regardless of what you drive, because as the cars are expensive items when the government penalise certain cars they are harder to sell and suffer more depericiation which happened to us. we had a loan on the 4x4 and when the governemnt decided to hike up taxes the car loan and value of the car crossed over so we had to sell at a greater loss because no one wanted 4x4s

Well when you find an MP who has a clue about the real world and doesn't live in his own bubble, then and only then will they see that all they are doing is causing the cost of living to go up by taxing the life out of all motoring.
My wife has an eco car and all i can say is she regrets it more than anything, Every time she goes shopping she has to go twice as not a lot fits in or i get that phone call and have to run out in my trusty 20 year old Land Rover to collect larger items and i have had stickers put on my windscreen telling me i am killing the planet.
Funny but they never lay down in front?

Yay!

Why Tax the car at all? We all know that most of the cost of petrol is tax anyway, so why not simply leave it at that? Those that wish to run a huge gaz guzzler then can do, and the tree huggers can choose an eco car. Yes I own a sports car - but it only does 2k miles a year. Surely an eco car doing 20k is actually more harmful?

And lets face it - if we all switched to eco vehicles, used bikes or (in extreme cases) relied on public transport, the Government would simply tax those to recoop its lost finances. Can you imagine a tax disc for a pushbike? It will come!

We are supposed to live in a democracy, but we are constantly dictated to about our cars - if the Government were serious about the issue, why arent heavy loads put back on the rails or canals, and why arent all the alternative fuel sources made more readily available? Answer - because it is simply easier to tax the common person!

Rant over!

Goverment, COMEON! Now I'm a tree hugger and I agree with Mister Happy!