Will Rising Road Tax Gradually Make 987 3.4 Gen 1 More Difficult To Sell

[blaster56]

The way the road fund licence fee is going, the road tax for Gen 1 Boxster S 3.4 will hit £600 pa in 3 years time. Road tax went up £5 pa a couple of years ago, then £10 pa and now it’s been £20 pa for the last two years. So at this rate, the tax will go from £540 now to £600 in 3 years time.

Although these cars seem to shift regularly at around £12-£16k, I do wonder whether people will eventually question the merit of paying £600 a year to run a £12k motor, even before the bore score stories put them off.

I guess it can be compensated by a price adjustment, but with 3.2L 987s selling for £10-£12k and the price of Gen 2 3.4s coming down towards the £20k mark, I could see the values of these particular cars coming under pressure.

Am I being paranoid ?

 

[Gordon Attar]

Your forgetting that certain years of gen 1 cars like 2007 have been the best part of £600 for 4/5 years due to CO2 levels which has had no impact on them.

 

[headless]

If new owners are like me they will have no idea how much the tax is until it's too late, haha, got a bit of a shock!!!!

 

[richardjjs1]

Cant see it being a problem

If someone wants a sports car for 12k then the Road Tax should not effect them
You can pay monthly and 50 a month is not a problem when you look a fuel costs

 

[supersport]

Just been in the same boat, ouch was a bit of a shock it's more than our other cars added together.

But as also said at the end of the day for running a sports car it's not so bad, not sure it will have any effect long term on saleability certainly not compared against the risk of going pop.

 

[blaster56]

Thanks for your comments. I guess to an extent I didn’t really think about the road tax either when I bought it. Couldn’t afford a Gen 2 and was trying to avoid early Gen 1 IMS risk (which at the time seemed to be the big isue of the day) which is why I bought the 3.4 with the bigger bearing. As you say, just part of the cost of running a sports car.

 

[turbo jonny]

Just sold our gen 1 3.4S
road tax was definately a factor ; i hated paying it for a low use car on principle
not affordability.

 

[rowtietowers]

Have to agree that is the main reason I sold my previous 2007 987S after only 16 months ownership. At that time it was £460 pa but hated paying it. After a blip with an Octavia VRS for 2 years went back to a gen 2 987S & RFL was under £300. Now have a 718 with PDK & RFL only £180 - happy days?? & an Octavia VRS DSG as a daily driver!