Porsche vs the Mayor of London continued…

Porsche as expected have confirmed that they are filing a request for the judicial review of Mayor Ken Livingston’s ridiculous petrol guzzler tax, due to come into effect later this year.

Mayor Livingston plans to hit owners of all vehicles deemed to be ‘environmentally unfriendly’ with an equally unfriendly [...]

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When it comes to cars in Australia, we put up with the short-sited revenue raising decisions of our politicians and there is narry a whisper from us. More speed cameras go in, more speed limits are reduced and more money fills government coffers but there is little or no change to road deaths.

Fuel prices rise [...]

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Yesterday we reported on the $AUD46 fee that London Mayor Ken Livingstone intends slapping on drivers of ‘petrol guzzlers’ that enter London city. Mayor Livingstone intends to inject the revenue attained back into improved facilities for bikes.

Porsche, whose sports cars will likely be recipients of the new tax, hit back and wrote to the [...]

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The Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone has decreed that a daily tax equivalent to around $AUD46 will be levied against all fuel-guzzling vehicles entering his city as well as any that are not considered emissions efficient. The new tax will come into effect from October.

Mayor Livingstone will then reinvest the proceeds from this tax into [...]

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