987 2.7L Road Tax bands - Page 2 - Boxster/Cayman - PistonHeads UK

Hi, Could someone please advise on the tax bands and if anything changed much by year. This looks a bit weird http://www.parkers.co.uk/cars/advice/road-tax-guid... Cheers

I had a 2006 987 2.7 and paid a staggering £485 Now got a 2011 987 Spyder 3.4 and it is only £285 the saving pays my insurance at £190 A lot is down to year of make 2006 cars suffer badly Edited by woodysnr on Monday 10th August 23:48

Cheers. I take it yours was an early 2006? http://www.parkers.co.uk/cars/advice/road-tax-guid... Looks like it dropped to 290 for the 2007 model year (engine upgrades 2.7L 180 kW (245 PS; 241 hp))

EversmannGT said: Cheers. I take it yours was an early 2006? http://www.parkers.co.uk/cars/advice/road-tax-guid... Looks like it dropped to 290 for the 2007 model year (engine upgrades 2.7L 180 kW (245 PS; 241 hp)) It was a March 2006 a lot of early cars not just Porsches suffer this high banding...

Yep, the 2007 2.7 is the lower tax band.

The 987.1 2.7l is a £285 per year car if you have the 5 speed box. If you have the 6 speed option it goes to the higher rate.

It is worth looking for a car registered before 23rd March 2006 or after 1st August 2006 IIRC. All 2.7 cars registered prior to 1st August 2006 have emissions of 229g/km which officially put them into band L which is now £490 per year. However, any car registered before 23rd March 2006 has an exemption which takes them down into band K, currently £290 per year. After 1st August 2006, the new model had reduced emissions which put it in band K anyway (the threshold is 225g/km.). Therefore it is only cars registered between the two dates that attract the higher tax. As these cars get older, the £200 a year saving becomes increasingly attractive.

kingston12 said: It is worth looking for a car registered before 23rd March 2006 or after 1st August 2006 IIRC. All 2.7 cars registered prior to 1st August 2006 have emissions of 229g/km which officially put them into band L which is now £490 per year. However, any car registered before 23rd March 2006 has an exemption which takes them down into band K, currently £290 per year. After 1st August 2006, the new model had reduced emissions which put it in band K anyway (the threshold is 225g/km.). Therefore it is only cars registered between the two dates that attract the higher tax. As these cars get older, the £200 a year saving becomes increasingly attractive. Cheers. Does the 5 speed / 6 speed case (previous post) still apply? (So, If I look for one prior to 23rd March 2006, does it have to be 5 speed to target the lower tax band)

The latest Spyder 3.8 engine puts it at £490 +£850 for first year registration Ouch

Although the £200 difference isn't huge when considering the total cost of ownership, it was particularly galling paying £500 tax for my old 2.7 when it was registered only a few days too late for the March 26th band K discount. Unlike a big service or repair, you get no betterment out of a tax disk. The irony wasn't lost on me when I chopped it for a 997 C4S that uses about 40% more fuel, but which was in the lower emissions category

Slight thread drift, but do all Gen 2 caymans fall into the lower tax rate, i.e. not the most expensive?

EversmannGT said: Cheers. Does the 5 speed / 6 speed case (previous post) still apply? (So, If I look for one prior to 23rd March 2006, does it have to be 5 speed to target the lower tax band) Not as far as I am aware. I am pretty sure that the rule is that any car registered before that date falls into band K regardless of emissions. I have a 2005 3.2S which has higher emissions than any of the 2.7 and I am paying £290.

woodysnr said: The latest Spyder 3.8 engine puts it at £490 +£850 for first year registration Ouch That is pricey, especially considering a lot of the 3.8 911s sneak in below the 225g/km limit. The new tax bands coming in from 2017 are quite punitive on cars costing over £40k. Buying a Spyder then will cost £1,700 in the first year, £450 for the next 5 years and then £140 a year after that.

jakesmith said: Although the £200 difference isn't huge when considering the total cost of ownership, it was particularly galling paying £500 tax for my old 2.7 when it was registered only a few days too late for the March 26th band K discount. Unlike a big service or repair, you get no betterment out of a tax disk. Indeed. I have owned mine for 5 years, and the way I see it, the discount in tax has effectively paid for all of my servicing and minor repairs in that time. I doubt that a £200 a year saving is enough to add anything to the resale value, but worth having if planning to keep the car for a while. jakesmith said: The irony wasn't lost on me when I chopped it for a 997 C4S that uses about 40% more fuel, but which was in the lower emissions category That is where my understanding runs out. How can a car consume that much more fuel and still push less emissions out of the exhaust? I can understand different levels of efficiency, but aurely there must be a limit?

Another scam by the government to get more money out of us motorist..nothing to do with co2 emissions or am I just being cynical

I seem to remember the 987 2.7 Boxster had a revision in 2007 to VarioCam Plus which gave a 5bhp increase in power and a reduction in road tax.

kingston12 said: That is where my understanding runs out. How can a car consume that much more fuel and still push less emissions out of the exhaust? I can understand different levels of efficiency, but aurely there must be a limit? Au contraire, my 997 is pre March 2006 so despite being far worse for fuel and emissions, slips into the earlier lower K band praise the lord

Sorry for resurrecting what seems to be a dormant topic, but like many, I can't really get my head around this tax banding. I have a 2.7 Tiptronics Boxster, first registered on 27th June 2006. Its emissions are stated as 250 G/Km. I am now paying £735 a year road tax, made even more staggering when you take into account that in the last year, I have driven it less than 300 miles. Not much of any incentive to keep it for much longer, sadly!

Something's not right there. Paid £415 last February and checking now, it will be renewed at £430 from March. This is for a MY06 987 3.2s....

Chocaholic said: Sorry for resurrecting what seems to be a dormant topic, but like many, I can't really get my head around this tax banding. I have a 2.7 Tiptronics Boxster, first registered on 27th June 2006. Its emissions are stated as 250 G/Km. I am now paying £735 a year road tax, made even more staggering when you take into account that in the last year, I have driven it less than 300 miles. Not much of any incentive to keep it for much longer, sadly! Indeed, it's a huge amount anyway, but more so for those being run as second cars which most of these probably are by now. I ran mine as a 'main' car for a long time, doing around 2,000 miles each year. It's now a second car, doing half that. Mine is in the £430 band which is a significant saving, but it still means that the VED costs me almost as much each year as fuel, servicing, MOT and insurance combined!

I think I’ll put all my facts together and try to get a sensible response from the DVLA. All the comments already posted seem to suggest as you say, that something is not quite right with the classification of my my Boxster. Thanks for your views.

Chocaholic said: Sorry for resurrecting what seems to be a dormant topic, but like many, I can't really get my head around this tax banding. I have a 2.7 Tiptronics Boxster, first registered on 27th June 2006. Its emissions are stated as 250 G/Km. I am now paying £735 a year road tax, made even more staggering when you take into account that in the last year, I have driven it less than 300 miles. Not much of any incentive to keep it for much longer, sadly! Would it not be better to SORN the car and just tax it when you're going to use it? I know its a bit of a faff but £735 isn't insignificant.

Chocaholic said: I think I ll put all my facts together and try to get a sensible response from the DVLA. All the comments already posted seem to suggest as you say, that something is not quite right with the classification of my my Boxster. Thanks for your views. The Parker's link in the first post of this topic has been updated with the latest figures, so is probably a good starting point. Unfortunately, it's the first registration date of 27th June 2006 that's causing the higher charge. Emissions of 250g/km would put a car into Band L (£730), but cars registered before 23rd March 2006 were put into Band K (£430) as a maximum, even if they emitted the amounts that normally put them into Bands L or M. It was done like this so as not to penalise people who had just bought higher emission cards before the new tax bands were introduced.

I had a 2008 2.7 Boxster which I bought in 2009. From memory there was a difference in tax bands on some 2.7 versions because of the gearbox and consequent emissions which made them more expensive to tax. I only remember this because when I was looking to buy I actively avoided looking at cars in the higher band. It seems ridiculous now when the tax for my wife's 2.7 981 Cayman is I believe £360 a year and next year my 4.0 718 Boxster will only cost £190.

kingston12 said: Emissions of 250g/km would put a car into Band L (£730), but cars registered before 23rd March 2006 were put into Band K (£430) as a maximum, even if they emitted the amounts that normally put them into Bands L or M. It was done like this so as not to penalise people who had just bought higher emission cards before the new tax bands were introduced. That explains it, car was registered Sept 2005. Vaguely remember something about that now that you've mention it.

Voodoo Blue said: It seems ridiculous now when the tax for my wife's 2.7 981 Cayman is I believe £360 a year and next year my 4.0 718 Boxster will only cost £190. It certainly does. The 4.0 718 seems to have an output of 247g/km for the manual so almost exactly the same as the 987 but with a £190 charge rather than £730 for the post-March 2006 cars!

Taxing a car all year when only doing 300 miles? I don’t get it, unless its 20 miles a month, in which case buy a different car!! Yes, the system has some anomalies, my other petrol car is £20 a year, a lot less than some newer electric cars of the same size, you can also use these anomalies to your advantage.