sulavaca wrote:Or, instead of "engine capacity tax", as the engine's air capacity on my old Prius would depend upon which stroke of the four cylinder cycle it was, due it being an Atkinson cycle engine,
Dodgy sophistry Mr S.
As I understand it, the capacity (bore times stroke) is constant, but VVT is used to render the effective compression ratio different from the expansion ratio. So "engine capacity tax" still works.
sulavaca wrote: Come on! Round up! Round up! Have a go!
Uh? NOBODY says that!
Its "Roll up Roll up!"
Where in the UK are you from exactly?
sulavaca wrote: Who can think of the daftest tax, based on loose logic that they can think of?
Dafter than the gubmint? TOUGH one.
They've proposed a special tax on cars older than 10 years: It would make sense to give tax relief
on cars older than 10 years.
The UK gubmint were giving a largish
subsidy, matched by car sellers (I think 1500 quid, but I cant be bothered to look it up) to be spent on a new car, if you scrapped one 10 or more years old. It would make sense to tax new car purchases instead.
Tyre tread depth tax? - No, not daft enough. Would encourage people to indulge in bald tyre brinkpersonship, but it would have environmental benefits, and it'd hit those Jeepnicks hard, which'd be a populist move
Tyre capacity tax - Air is for breathing. This'd be a fixed-rate tax, irrespective of whether you atually put any air in your tyres. A pay at the pump variant would be possible but stupider, in the case of air. You could do similar things with the cooling system
Tyre pressure relief tax - You pay according to tyre pressure you run. If based on inspection, this'd have to be called a "fine" rather than a tax, but you could just go by the handbook number.
Shaking off my current tyre obsession: Ride height? Swept area of windscreen wipers? Window tax? (hasn't been tried with vehicles AFAIK. My old bubble car would have been pretty hard hit, and arbitarily, so a bonus). Rattle tax?
Dirty car tax? ....oh, hang on.......I think that's actually been proposed
Speed tax? ........Ah.......Like I said, they're tough to beat.