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Just make vehicles taxes directly proportional to gross vehicle weight. You drive a 200kg motorcyle, pay $X, you have a 2ton car, pay the 10x
Just make vehicles taxes directly proportional to gross vehicle weight. You drive a 200kg motorcyle, pay $X, you have a 2ton car, pay the 10x
https://www.insidescience.org/news/how-much-damage-do-heavy-...
Penalizes families - say you have 3 kids, a dog and grand parents to move around you will need a larger vehicle. So many of these schemes to punish car ownership and use are invented by cyclists and people who don't need a car and don't think anyone else should have one either. Also penalizes tradesmen who have trucks and vans.
Meh. You could offset this. Tradesmen could get a tax credit and families as well.
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The VW Golf, which not exactly a compact car by Euro standards, is pretty well sized. My Mk7 is only a half inch longer and one inch wider than a current gen (21+) BRZ. I’ve actually owned the Mk7 in both 2 door and 4 door. The 4 door is identical dimensionally, better proportioned, and much easier to get in and out of since you can open the doors more than 10 degrees without banging the car next to you… the doors on…
Funny that you mention two cars that no longer are sold in the states. Honda fits and regular VW golfs are not for sale anymore.
https://globalnews.ca/news/9668217/montreal-rosemont-la-peti... > Whether electric, hybrid or internal combustion, parking a vehicle under 1,550 kilograms will cost $115 for the year. Vehicles with a mass between 1,250 kg and 1,424 kg will cost $145, 1,425 kg to 1,599 kg will be $175 and 1,600 kg and more will be $205. (I think that 1550 is a typo and should be 1250 and is reflected in the table below) | kg | lbs | f…
A minivan can very comfortably seat 6 adults. In a busy area, higher fees for larger vehicles may discourage carpooling and increase traffic.
Unfortunately, the average vehicle ocupancy is around 1.6. Vans are a bit better at 2.4, but these numbers are puny compared to the 20-80 prople who fit in a single bus (which takes as much space as 3-4 cars). Cars are a luxury in cities. The cities themselves pay for cars with noise, air quality and congestion. People should be encouraged to use them less in general.
Sure, with the anti-consumer construction of modern cars, and the unfortunate difficulties of sourcing old car parts, we’d love to be less car-reliant. It’s just not feasible for us though, and never will be.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The VW Golf, which not exactly a compact car by Euro standards, is pretty well sized. My Mk7 is only a half inch longer and one inch wider than a current gen (21+) BRZ. I’ve actually owned the Mk7 in both 2 door and 4 door. The 4 door is identical dimensionally, better proportioned, and much easier to get in and out of since you can open the doors more than 10 degrees without banging the car next to you… the doors on…
Funny that you mention two cars that no longer are sold in the states. Honda fits and regular VW golfs are not for sale anymore.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The VW Golf, which not exactly a compact car by Euro standards, is pretty well sized. My Mk7 is only a half inch longer and one inch wider than a current gen (21+) BRZ. I’ve actually owned the Mk7 in both 2 door and 4 door. The 4 door is identical dimensionally, better proportioned, and much easier to get in and out of since you can open the doors more than 10 degrees without banging the car next to you… the doors on…
yeah 2-door is a weird place to draw the line. I had a 2003 Ford Focus 4-door, and while it wasn't tiny, it was fairly compact. Meanwhile Plymouth used to make a 2-door midsized station wagon (the Suburban, not to be confused with the Chevy SUV of the same name, came in both 2- and 4-door versions).
Also note that Ford no longer sells Focus in the US.
Wouldn't using length, or better still, area be a better proxy for land usage? What about area/seats? Weight might be a good proxy except electric vehicles tend to be comparatively heavier than their ICE counterparts.
I think ideally a rule that incentives smaller lighter vehicles thinks about both size and weight, with weight being the more important one by far.
What about people falling into phase 1 homelessness: RVs