This isn’t about every Ferrari and Range Rover that gets targeted by an extortionate Vehicle Excise Duty bill.of our list of bargain luxury barges, lightweight sports cars and souped-up hot hatchbacks that get punished with value-ruining road tax. With their £735 annual renewal many people write them off – but, because of that, there are some cracking bargains out there.
Although few chose it, there was a manual gearbox option for the V6 until 2019, and. So, if you really want one of the 250 manuals in the country you’ll have to stomach a premium in tax or find an extremely rare manual registered after April 2017, as we have. What’s less difficult to find is the even more charismatic V8s, and the same tax rule applies to them, which makes them a very enticing buy from £30k.
They should have sold better because they were properly engineered bits of kit – the four-wheel drive 6 was 50 per cent torsionally stiffer than the standard car, both received a new 6-speed manual gearbox and both had turbo lag impressively well ironed out. One thing that didn’t help the pair's fortunes was the 25mpg and the CO2 emissions which placed them in the top tax band. Although Mazda dropped the 6 MPS in 2007, the 3 MPS saw a second generation which Mazda made even better.
It has gained a bit of a cult following yet remains an attainable purchase as prices haven’t risen - and it should be reliable. We’d go for a pre-March 2006 , manual coupe with the GT pack, which adds leather and a lovely set of Rays alloys. The 370Z was a heavy update of the 350Z rather than an all-new car, and like later 350Zs it was still £735 to tax.
From the 9-3 stables came the Turbo X with a thumping 276bhp from its 2.8-litre V6 – and this time it was four-wheel drive. Only 500 were made, and all are a fair old chunk to tax, but no more so than the lesser-powered V6s, so we think it’s a fair price to pay for a classic in the making.Skodas might be famed for their frugality and sensibility, but that hasn’t stopped them coming out with a few surprises.
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