One of the easiest ways of lowering your car’s CO2 emissions is to switch to diesel fuel. Ten years ago this would have been a laughable proposition, but as the battle of petrol vs diesel has raged on the diesel engine has progressed in leaps and bounds. Where diesel engines were slow and noi...

So we’ve looked at the benefits of buying a pre-2001 car to cut down your tax bill, but another way of reducing your road tax bill and keeping the performance is to buy a lower powered car and then tune it. The C02 rating for a car is based on a series of EU tests that are carried out on a st...

Although the shakeup of the emissions based road tax doesn’t look good for performance cars, it’s worth remembering that it only affects cars registered in March 2001 onwards. So, one easy way to beat the taxman is to buy a car that was registered earlier. The road tax for such cars is ...

If you’re a fan of fast cars then you’ll probably have listened with a mixture of horror and confusion as the Chancellor, Alistair Darling, announced a shakeup of the current Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) tax bands. For 2008-09 the structure of the VED bands remains the same, but with increa...