>????? So if the car costs 2000 pounds, you have to pay 2000 >+ 2000*1.8 =
>5600 for it?
Yep, that's correct. Trust me - car owners over here thinks it's insane too.
And it gets worse: Since new cars are taxed so heavily in Denmark, the
producers have sold cheaply to Danish importers in order to be able to sell
at all.
However, now the European Union wants to create equality in prices
throughout Europe. That means that either cars would have to get cheaper in
the rest of the Union (yeah, right), or the price of unregistered cars would
have to raise in Denmark. One example of pricing was conducted by my local
newspaper, Fyens Stiftstidende. With the new prices, taxes unaltered a Ford
Focus would cost approximately 500,000 Dkr.
That's 65,366.64 USD, ladies and gentlemen!
Meanwhile, I paid 62,000 Dkr (8,104.58 USD) for my Cinquecento from '97,
which, along with the service I got, is a pretty low price.
>Wondering what you meant, what the car looks like, I went >here:
>
> http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/ajwebster/car.html
That's the one. The little red gadget. Except mine is a "sporting"-model.
>I have a '78 MGB, have owned a Fiero, but not exactly the >same. There are
a
>few of those small cars around but they are just >so....worthless?
Hey! Watch it, thats my mojo you're trampling down there.
>The government tried to pass CAFE standards which would have >made people
>start driving those boxes-on-wheels, but thankfully it was >squashed.
>
> http://www.ita.doc.gov/td/auto/cafe.html
>
>
>Kevin T.
>Next, dishes
