Just found it thanks, £30 a year.....why does my Volvo V70 cost 10 times as much?

I think I paid £20 a year on my 1.5 Megane. They're from an era where the concern was CO2 and diesels are better for that but worse for Nox.

Where two cars in such disparate VED groups can emit the same CO2 per year if one is used a lot and the other doesn't. My 1.6 petrol Mazda is 9x the VED of a car that emits per mile 2/3rds the CO2, despite the latter car was likely either a lot smaller / lighter and/or made many years after mine, and thus benefitting from improvements in design.

The VED bands and rates for cars between 2001 and 2017 were ridiculous, given they covered 16 years of technological changes but have enormous differences in the VED rates, especially when few cars in those early years apart from very small, low powered ones actually qualified for the first three groupings.

By the mid 2010s, almost all non-performance family sized cars did qualify for groups C or below, which is why HMG changed to the new ratings to get more £££, but daftly kept the old disparities that unfairly penalised owners of 'normal' cars bought in the first decade of the period.

Thought this thread was going to be a about a new toll road through the Yorkshire Dales ;-)