$4000 Guzzler tax coming

[Quiet Lunatic]

New budget for 2007!!!! I don't know if fellow owners follow this stuff, but the government is slapping gas guzzlers with a 4000 $$ tax.....WOW I guess it's good for the environment, but bad for the car companies. What may happen is the SRT's may come to an end due to the extra 4 large!!! Can anyone say collector cars????;) ;)

[daver40]

Vipers have had the gas guzzeler tax for as long as I can remember, it's nothin new.:shakehead:

I believe he was talking about Canada.

[Quiet Lunatic]

We do have a $1200 gas tax on SRT 8's now, but $4000 is a huge jump!! Sadly the Magnum SRT has a $400 gas tax, due to they classify it as a truck!:confused:

[Quiet Lunatic]

If you read the budget carefully, it is all going to be based on the EPA's calculation of L's per 100 km's. I believe that they SRT's were only going to get slapped with an additional $1,000 worth of tax. The R/T's (and daytona's) are not going to get hit with anything.

The $4,000 is going to be slapped on SUV's such as the Escalade, Ford Excursion and other huge SUV's that get 5 miles to the gallon.

Scott
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[Tenor]

As I have always said "you can afford what you truly want"!
Have a glass of wine and enjoy what you have today.:D :D :D

[RFischer]

Good thing we bought our Canadian SRT's already :beerchug:

[Aslin]

My 07 SRT had a $2100 tax on it. Bad thing is that car companies will pax the tax and of course pass it on down to the cunsumer.

[MidLyfCrysis]

One of the reasons I opted for the RT with the Road and Track package was that the extra tax thing just pushed me out of affordability range, I didnt have to pay any extra tax on a 5.7L hemi. But now even MORE tax on a 6.1!!!! I might have made the additional stretch had I known this was gonna happen. I guess more tax is just the Canadian way eh?

[RFischer]

I don't think the tax will do too much impact - well maybe some. If someone really wants an SRT - they'll buy it. Typically this cost will get passed on. If the government actually listen to stats, more people are buying the low consumption cars anyway. It's going to cost more than save us.

[moparman]

Leave it to the Canadian government to find new ways to screw us up the backside...we are already a nation taxed to death in every possible way imaginable but they keep adding to the list of ways to steal our hard earned money.:i_rolleyes:

I suppose this will be a tax that will be charged each and everytime the same car is sold during its lifetime.If the government is that intent on stealing money from us in this manner it should only be charged once when the car is sold new and never again on the same car...but knowing the government like I do they will collect this tax each and everytime the car changes hands just as another tax grab.

[talktoandy]

I saw this really interesting show last night. Canada has more oil reserves in the form of oil shale than the US and Russia together. Just north of Edmonton is the worlds largest industrial complex literally turning a forest into a strip mine. Only the oil to be refined out of this process takes 3 times more pollution than normal drilling and large toxic lakes are being produced as a side effect.

Canada, which was to be the world leader in reducing emissions under the Kyoto protocol by boasting about 35% cuts, has increased emissions by 27% already due in large part to this oil production and there are plans to triple the current million barrels a day production.

I think its all part of the governments master plan to raise the temperatures in Canada and enjoy longer summers. Amazing, money rules no whatter where you are. Everyone also feels overtaxed wherever they are as well.

[Methos]

California slaps a $3k guzzler tax on the R/T and SRT, pretty much anything that gets anything less than 20 MPG

[MidLyfCrysis]

What a total scam!!! You already pay more tax because you burn more fuel!!!! This is just another way for the government to line their pockets with the money they dont get from us on payday.

[azoth99]

California slaps a $3k guzzler tax on the R/T and SRT, pretty much anything that gets anything less than 20 MPG
R/T gets better than 20 so whats that about.

[Methos]

R/T gets better than 20 so whats that about.
Maybe it's the 'performance engine' thing :4-dontknow:, 'yea, it's got a Hemi!!' ;)

[RYVAL]

way to help out the companies that are actually still supporting our economy there Government. That Brampton plant is massive and employs a lot of people. Start charging Dodge extra tax for their guzzlers? You start cutting jobs.

Real Smart.

[jref]

Bought my '07 SRT in CA with a $1200 tax.