that weighs twice as much as my Golf, and I wouldn’t care if I wanted that fabulous SUV experience.
Pls don’t exagerate …your Golf is around 1.5 tons and a mid-range SUV will be 1.7-1.8t max. Now for example VW Tiguan or Seat Ateca are fabulous? Those are mid-range cars, just like your Golf but SUVs
The displacement cc and emissions are main factors but as I know what also affects it’s certain ranges of year of construnction.
The tax laws are not based on fuel economy or vehicle weight or size
Now the emissions are for sure affected by the weight of the vehicle and also by aerodynamics therefore SUVs should be higher in tax but that’s only logic so not sure if and how much.
What I mean is: Having a big engine isn’t a lot more expensive over here.
So my top example, the 4L 600hp 620€ tax, isn’t much higher then your example, the 1.4L (I would guess around 100hp) 90€ tax? Are you serious about that?
I’m from Romania but I actually have business in Germany so I’m resident in both countries. It’s pretty much the same for both, just a bit lower for RO. For example a 1.2L vehicle with about 80hp is something like ~90€ but a 2L vehicle with 300hp will be ~250€ and a 4L vehicle with 600hp will cost ~620€ so it’s ramping up a lot.
Of course you are right, an SUV is usually more expensive. I don’t care to much about SUVs because I don’t like them, I don’t like the looks.
A lot higher, double, triple or ever more. Depends on the CO2 emissions of the particular vehicle so bigger engine, more power, more weight, less aerodynamics, higher consumption means higher taxes. This is of course for combustion vehicles …don’t know about the EVs, never owned one
“If you buy a more expensive car …”
Oh and by the way, the vehicles price has nothing to do with emissions and so on.
Partly correct …market produces what consumers buy but here was no such things like SUVs and pickups so they needed to introduce them so ppl can buy. It’s basically marketing 1st. Marketing has a huge influence
In that case you pay much higher taxes already …at least in my country
They allowed the US SUV and pickup fashion to swap over to Europe (20 years ago there was little to none of those on European roads) so that when people are buying them, they get punished for doing so!? My point is, why the majority is acting like it is only the ordinary people’s fault?
Again, I’m not advocating for SUVs, I don’t even like them, I’m advocating for the ordinary people which I belong to, I don’t want us te get ripped off by the govts, that’s it.