Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 00:34:54 GMT From: Just Bob <uctraingnopsamanet.com> Subject: Re: Whats wrong with the V6?
On 9 Dec 2001 12:45:30 -0800, johsnopsamanytime.co.uk (Johannes H Andersen) wrote: >An additional annual taxable income for those who benefits from a >company car will be calculated as the above percentage of the list >price of the car. The percentages range between 15% and 35% and >are mapped from a specific CO2 production g/km for the car. No kidding ? 35% of list price ? That's incredible ! Is it *only* on company cars... so businesses end up paying for it ? > However, I find that people in the US still love >the gigantic sized cars, the yank-tanks has been replaced by even >larger SUVs. The petrol flows more freely there since you only pay >30% of what we pay for petrol in most of Europe. I have to admit that there are too many people driving SUV's, trucks, and gas hog big cars. Unfortunately, this is inherited from back in the old days (70's and before) when gas could be had for .29 cents/gallon. Bigger was always more expensive, more prestige, more ego. I recall in the 70's when a few of us started driving Japanese cars and the assumption was that "it's small, so it must be cheap". Driving a Japanese car was to invite abuse, but a European car would really peg you as a freak :-) We just about had this mentality licked, then someone noticed that the cowboys with trucks (these cowboys don't work at a ranch) liked 4-wheel drive. A few of them were buying Jeeps... it just got worse from there. Since no one really considered SUV's as cars, they managed to escape from gas mileage regulations for years, and are only now being pegged for the waste that they are. But, I digress... Bob
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