That's only applicable if you don't add -any- options.
That said, I thought - and I may be wrong, that as the IVA'd them, the road tax was completely different, and somewhere near the £250 odd it was previously.
That's only applicable if you don't add -any- options.
The road tax thing is a bit confusing at the moment but I thought that if the purchase price was over £40k then you pay a £310 supplement for 5 years for petrol cars.
You're spot on with the 40K threshold, and you'd be right that anything after that is nowt to do the DVLA. Most normal cars however don't allow you to go that route, what you buy is car + options and that's what the DVLA tax on. I suspect doing it after purchase would at the very least require two invoices and two payments. And then you have to ask what Ariel has to gain by doing it that way.wasp wrote: ↑Thu Nov 01, 2018 12:12 pm The road tax thing is a bit confusing at the moment but I thought that if the purchase price was over £40k then you pay a £310 supplement for 5 years for petrol cars.
If you buy the car from Ariel and then add upgrades "after purchase" then surely this would count?
A grey area perhaps but I'd hope that it could be workable. Fingers crossed!
Cheers,
Stu
Insurance violations are always ones that you find out about just when you'd rather not But I agree, historically with the Ariel being a bespoke car and insurers treating it like a kit car, I'm not sure they'd know what was standard and what was a mod.
I still don't get the argument here. Why would anyone remove a handbrake to save weight? what is the weight of a handbrake, calipers and cabling? probably a moot topic or very slim edge case I'd say.autobackup wrote: ↑Thu Nov 01, 2018 4:05 pm The point that I was trying to make (obviously badly) is that the Atom 4 appears to be coming with a fitted handbrake as standard - it won't be a 'customer option' as it will be required for the issue of a Certificate of Conformity (and also needed for a MOT if applicable) to remain valid - if subsequently die-hard racers wish to remove it to save weight they would have to do it themselves and the car wouldn't then be 'road legal'.
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