Bike CO2 levels

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Chabby
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Bike CO2 levels

#1 Post by Chabby » Sat Dec 20, 2008 12:57 pm

So, some cars are free as far as road tax goes and those that produce under 120g/km only cost £35.

The Falco now costs £66.00 a year to tax.

So, the question is, using the car tax bands - would the Falco be cheaper to tax if the tax was based on CO2 levels?

To be so it would have to produce less than 120g/km. Whats the chances?

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#2 Post by joecrx » Sat Dec 20, 2008 2:12 pm

good question ill have to think of getting a small car engine and fitting it to the falco

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Re: Bike CO2 levels

#3 Post by Gio » Thu Dec 25, 2008 12:10 am

Chabby wrote:So, some cars are free as far as road tax goes and those that produce under 120g/km only cost £35.

The Falco now costs £66.00 a year to tax.

So, the question is, using the car tax bands - would the Falco be cheaper to tax if the tax was based on CO2 levels?

To be so it would have to produce less than 120g/km. Whats the chances?


Who cares, the fact is you can filter and thats worth £66 of anyones money :smt001

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Re: Bike CO2 levels

#4 Post by lazarus » Thu Dec 25, 2008 4:56 pm

Chabby wrote:So, some cars are free as far as road tax goes and those that produce under 120g/km only cost £35.

The Falco now costs £66.00 a year to tax.

So, the question is, using the car tax bands - would the Falco be cheaper to tax if the tax was based on CO2 levels?

To be so it would have to produce less than 120g/km. Whats the chances?
Simple. How many mpg does the Falco do? My Lotus does 30 officially and its official CO2 is 208. So if your Falco does 45 (say) then its CO2 would be about 140.

Barring the production of some CO and the emission of some hydrocarbons, both of which are small on a modern engine, all the fuel consumed ends up as CO2 and water

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