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The 1.0L turbo If you have low end torque you don't have to spin the engine like crazy to accomplish normal driving tasks like pulling away from a spot light, overtaking etc. As mentioned before a calmy driven V8 was demonstrated to be more fuel efficient than a Prius that just had to keep up with i...

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Habit7 You are way off - much of what you say WAS the case with turbocharged engines, modern turbos spool way earlier and make peak torque from as low as 2000rpm The redlines on many modern turbo gasoline cars have been dropped to diesel territory What you think would use less gas? A 1L turbo or an ...

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Maybe they will use a factor like in motor racing like 1.4x the cc rating for turbocharged vehicles to determine the n/a equivalent cc. So that 1.0 turbo fiesta wouldnt be affected. I really cant understand this beat up for this though. It is obvious that they'll have to tax OEM turbo charged vehic...

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I am speculating there is a bit of scapegoating going on regarding this online shopping tax. Firstly, this is not an issue of recovering taxes from corporations operating outside of Trinidad and Tobago. It is about dampening the demand of online shopping to curb forex leakage. With that in mind, ha...

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OP could you list some of the austerity measures being implemented? Expect personal attacks for asking for facts... "Austerity measures refer to official actions taken by the government, during a period of adverse economic conditions, to reduce its budget deficit using a combination of spendin...

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Fuel consumption is more dependent on driving style though. Never saw the top gear episode where they had a sports car drive around behind a prius for some laps of a track? Prius being driven at 100% burned more fuel than the sports car that just kept up. Fact is that under normal(conservative) dri...

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OP what do you suggest? Don't impose austerity??? Many of the dumb actions of GOVTT are hard to reverse: Reducing VAT largly benefited retailers and not consumers The government has lost billions thanks to this (but they knew they would) No government can come back in and send back up VAT to 15% wi...

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aaron17 wrote:So why can't they charge on cars with emission figures or mpg?

Your assumption is that the motivation here is anything other than $$$

It's not about the environment or fuel consumption...

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So I should carp like an idiot and bawl that MVT going to increase on 1.0T Fiesta that even on the market yet? And never will be... Local car companies never bring tubo, as they say they are "hard to fix" Take away the incentive because of smaller engine size (an punish the car for being ...

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OP could you list some of the austerity measures being implemented? Expect personal attacks for asking for facts... "Austerity measures refer to official actions taken by the government, during a period of adverse economic conditions, to reduce its budget deficit using a combination of spendin...

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I guess the Vanilla Civic is a luxury car then...

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The next tax will be when you change\upgrade your engine

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pete wrote:But the majority of new cars sold are under 2L so how is over 2l not a luxury?

I believe the existing engine tax had something to do with that phenomenon

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Anyhow... Colm say taxes for turbocharged vehicles coming next budget Globally turbocharging has been used predominantly to increase engine efficiency and mileage (like the Fiesta 1.0t) Thanks to this government we will still be driving vehicles with outdated engines manufacturers have long stopped...

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For fun Fiesta ST (1.6Turbo) Starting MSRP $21,000 USD $138,810 TTD before taxes $83,286 Import Duty $84,000 MVT $38,262 VAT $334,358 Total So - The Government collects almost $200K on a car that cost $139K from the showroom in the US That seems justified, we have to protect our local car manufactur...

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Ford was going to import the 2.3L ecoboost Mustang - there goes that idea

No Fiesta ST for me either

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desifemlove wrote:because comparing the Eurozone to T&T, a small economy with fossil fuels as half of its GDP, does mek good sense.

What exactly you mean here?

Are you saying that Austerity will work here when it fails everywhere? Why??? God iz ah Trini?

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Maybe... they used motor racing calc. for rotary engines in the past If they use 1.4 like racing @ current taxes (12.5% VAT after all duties, shipping etc) 2.0T = 2.8L MVT $105,000 Import Duty 60% 1.8T = 2.52L MVT $ 94,500 Import Duty 60% 1.6T = 2.24L MVT $ 84,000 Import Duty 60% 1.5T = 2.1L MVT $ 7...

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Austerity is failing all over the world - its is well publicized, it is well documented - why do we think that it will benefit T&T?

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Restrictions for sure... There should only be 3 or 4 days you could use these and within probably a 2 hr window

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All yuh wait, rumor in the mills is that you will also have to pay a substantial Fee for changing your rims out to after market as well as going to bigger sizes, and if you don't then your insurance will be cancelled. Wow... We becoming Germany - are they going to get rid of the speed limit on the ...

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Cars are already 3x to 4x times more expensive than the same car in the US when you factor in GDP per capita... But I guess they need to be more expensive

Government needs more revenue I guess

It's not like turbocharged cars are more fuel efficient or anything... Oh wait - they totally are

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Nope... This government is horribly efficient when it comes to introducing taxes

I knew something like this was coming when he said he was taxing over 1999cc "as a start"

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Legalize it!

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Iz not me, de shortman say so Just giving tuners the heads up :shock: gave the assurance yesterday speaking during debate of finance measures in the Senate. However the Minister revealed that the tax hike on luxury vehicles would be widened next year. Imbert last week announced an increase of 50 per...

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sMASH wrote:

1. Watch

2. What was the rationalle behind the Petroleum Act Allergic2BunnyEars?

Please edumacate us

ingalook

You is ah bamsee and a half yes

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Anyhow... Colm say taxes for turbocharged vehicles coming next budget Globally turbocharging has been used predominantly to increase engine efficiency and mileage (like the Fiesta 1.0t) Thanks to this government we will still be driving vehicles with outdated engines manufacturers have long stopped ...