Yeah the E85 has higher octane.
And since we have Hp-tax it benefits to be taxed under the 150hp stated on the regular gas. I guess that's the main reason that deliver the car with a difference in the setup.
It has the Vector package with Active options, which gives part leather seats, fog lights in the grill, sport chassis, 17 in alu-wheels, upgraded stereo, electric adjustment of the driver seat and some more i can't remember right now.
Great buy, congrats! It's a nice looking car no doubt
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Trying to use logic with government decisions on tax never works, MRR
The UK uses CO2 to determine it's annual road tax costs. So I will pay max (£455) for a 4x4 used to tow daughter's horse to competions even though I only do 2000 miles per year. My neighbour may pay ZERO for his Smart Diesel and do 10,000 miles per year. A Prius is £35 per year adn he/she might do 20,000 miles per year ... so who is ACTUALLY polluting mroe ?
ALL road usage charges should be on the fuel as low polluting cars also do higher mpg and so it achieves the same. Howevr, in the UK at least no government woudl suggest increasing the current tax rate on fuel any higher --
and if it wasn't harmonised across Europe then UK haulage companies would suffer even more ( European haulage copmanies fill up their tanks with cheaper diesel and then drive into the UK to deliver goods, local haulage firms cannot compete on costs buying UK fuel )
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agreed. The person who drives their S65 AMG 2 miles to the metro station each morning pollutes less than the self-righteous idiot who drives his Prius, Mini D, etc 40 miles to work each day . The US is one of the few remaining countries that NEEDS and increased fuel tax. Even at $4 a gallon (so around $1.03-1.05 a liter) its way cheaper than any country in Western Europe that I can think of. The chart you presented is a bit outdated but car and truck drivers in the UK undoubtedly get shafted. I feel for the motorists in the UK since they pay exorbitant prices for fuel, registration, the cars themselves, driving into their own capitol, etc (they don't need any more taxes on cars as far as I can see).
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This should be the basis of a system for road pricing, whereby the emissions are directly linked up to the distances covered by the vehicle and its "officially established" mileage. You can even differentiate such a system by time and place, by adding a GPS system that exactly records where the car was at which time...I am sure this system will greatly violate the conservative US approach of "freedom" but it is the most honest way of attributing the society's cost of road infrastructure to the user. We are very close to introducing the beginnings of such a system.
( it is currently sort of dishonest when a pay about 2300 US dollar annual roadtax for a 2.2 liter diesel car doing about 40 mpg an average, while for 3.0 V6 petrol sister car I would have to pay about half of that, despite the fact that I would get about 22 mpg on average)
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That just won't work in this country. Why not just avoid all that bureaucratic mess and increase the fuel tax so people are taxed on what they burn. I can see all kinds of government abuse of a system like that and it clearly violates the 4th amendment's protections against unwarranted searches.
What if the manufacturers put GPS in their cars as standard?
There's a problem though. If they put a GPS not only will they know where do you go but how fast do you get there. It'd be like having a speed camera in your car. Constantly.
So, no thanks.
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"I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting, but it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously." Douglas Adams
Lack of charisma can be fatal.
Visca Catalunya!
"I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting, but it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously." Douglas Adams
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