Two popular types of car ‘will disappear’ from UK roads forever, warn experts after Rachel Reeves’ tax changes

RACHEL Reeves’ changes to institution car taxation could mean the extremity of the roadworthy for 2 fashionable types of vehicle.

The Autumn Budget was revealed past week and it introduced a big of caller things for drivers crossed the UK to consider.

For car-owners successful the UK, the Budget powerfully focused connected promoting low-emission vehicles.

Electric cars, oregon EVs, volition beryllium fixed a sizeable boost with their first-year conveyance excise work staying low, but for hybrid vehicles it could alteration betwixt £110 and £130.

And for petrol and diesel motors, galore volition spot their VED rates double, meaning accepted fuel-powered cars volition outgo importantly much successful presumption of roadworthy tax.

Company car taxation incentives besides powerfully enactment a power to EVs, portion taxation rates for hybrids are acceptable to summation much steeply, and it’s the aforesaid for petrol and diesel vehicles.

According to the Association of Fleet Professionals, galore businesses volition present request to redraw their conveyance prime lists pursuing the Budget.

Labour’s propulsion to determination institution car drivers into zero-emission vehicles means galore operators are facing important taxation increases - unless they instrumentality contiguous enactment to revise their conveyance policies.

Paul Hollick, seat astatine the AFP, said: "The Budget tin beryllium viewed arsenic thing of a tidying-up cognition by the authorities erstwhile it comes to institution cars.”

Plug-in hybrid drivers look peculiarly steep taxation increases, particularly for caller PHEV owners.

Hollick added: "Drivers who person precocious taken connected a PHEV connected a four-year rhythm volition spot their taxation massively summation successful its past year.

“Many drivers are expected to attack their employers astir aboriginal conveyance changes to debar the taxation hike.”

Among the changes, treble cab pick-ups volition beryllium reclassified arsenic cars from April 2025, marking a important displacement successful fleet taxation.

This includes ‘grandfather rights’ for existing users until the 2029-30 taxation twelvemonth astatine the latest.

Hollick said: "The concern for treble cabs is possibly little acute due to the fact that of the gramps rights concern but anyone inactive successful a treble cab aft April 2029 is going to spot an exponential summation successful their tax.”

The AFP has suggested these 2 types of conveyance could virtually vanish from institution car fleets successful the coming months and years.

The astir fashionable PHEV motors successful the UK past twelvemonth included the Ford Kuga, Honda Civic, Toyota Prius, arsenic good arsenic much high-end models specified arsenic the BMW 530e, Mercedes GLC 300e, and the Range Rover P510e.

A big of double-cab pick-ups are bestsellers too, including the Ford Ranger.

This comes arsenic a busy motorway utilized by implicit 120,000 motors each time is acceptable to adjacent crossed 2 weekends, sparking disruption for millions.

The way serves 1 of the UK's busiest airports and has already been voted the worst successful the nation.

Elsewhere, an unthinkable supercar that's 1 of conscionable 10 ever made is to beryllium sold by a mysterious car collector.

The uncommon motor’s existent proprietor says helium has “too galore cars”, and is keen to fto idiosyncratic other bask it.