Light Goods Vehicle?

[Manstein]

Just had a V11 tax renewal for an R400 I acquired recently and was surprised to see it classed as private/light goods! A quick call to the DVLA and they told me as they had no record of emissions for this vehicle it was classed as PLG  and tax is £230 for the year.

Just wondering if any R400 owners have come across this on their V11?

thanks

Chris

 

 

[simon_h]

It's the same as all cars were pre 2001 when the co2 rules started. IVA cars still work to this old standard.

[John Vine]

Yup, it's all down to the fact that our funny little cars are not type-approved (hence the need for IVA testing). As a result, there's no recorded emissions data on the V5C, and therefore the CO2-based tax tables don't apply.  Instead, DVLA simply use the TC11 class (Private or Light Goods) that applies to cars and light goods vehicles registered before 1 March 2001, charging £230 for engines over 1549cc (£145 for smaller ones).

Given that an R400 (and most larger-engined 7s) would, in theory, probably fall into at least Band J (186-200g/km CO2, £265), you could argue that £230 is not unreasonable!  For comparison, an early 2014 Mondeo 2.0 Duratec just squeezes into Band I (£225), while a 2008 model is Band J.

JV

[Golf Juliet Tango]

£230 is fabulous value for taking either of my Caterhams for a lot of drives each year. :-)

I carry only the lightest of goods!

[Stridey]

I thought it was steep as my Fiat 500 is £30 a year. (It's zero on another 500 in the range, but costs £1200 more to buy...but the salesman seemed to think the zero rating outweighed that. He's right, ifs I'd kept it for 30 years!).

Mind you,  I felt this was more than offset by how cheap the 7 is to insure. I was amazed how cheap it was.

Can't be too long before the road tax is free as my 7 is getting on too.

 

 

[Julian H]

Its a Caterham SeVAN 

[Manstein]

Thanks for the clarification.

[john milner]

Until I read this I thought all cars were classed as PLG. I think I got that from a tax disc 40 odd years ago.