Motoring Discussion > Cost too much to Tax a Lambo.......... Miscellaneous
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 Wed 1 Sep 21 17:59 
 Cost too much to Tax a Lambo.......... - Zero
Beware, its the Daily Mail Website

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9946465/Owner-400-000-Lamborghini-Aventador-walks-home-tears-police-seized-untaxed-motor.html
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 Wed 1 Sep 21 18:14 
 Cost too much to Tax a Lambo.......... - Bobby
From that same website
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9929195/Supercar-fan-spent-70-000-converting-Vauxhall-look-like-Lotus-died-crash-inquest-hears.html

Spending 70000 to make his car look like another car, surely it had to be cheaper just to buy an Exige?
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 Wed 1 Sep 21 18:38 
 Cost too much to Tax a Lambo.......... - No FM2R
A quick look on Autotrader suggests that £70,000 is more or less exactly what it would cost.

However, no doubt he paid bit by bit over time rather than a lump sum, he probably didn't pay retail for everything, some bits will have been secondhand etc. etc. Essentially it might have £70k worth of bits on it, but I'd be reasonably sure he didn't spend that much.
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 Wed 1 Sep 21 18:53 
 Cost too much to Tax a Lambo.......... - No FM2R
Though having looked more on Autotrader, it's difficult to see how chappy's car could have been mistaken for an Exige. It doesn't look much like one.
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 Wed 1 Sep 21 20:32 
 Cost too much to Tax a Lambo.......... - Bobby
I just can't imagine any proper car enthusiasts being impressed by someone trying to make a Vauxhall look like a Lotus. More likely to get ribbed about it.
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 Wed 1 Sep 21 20:57 
 Cost too much to Tax a Lambo.......... - No FM2R
>> I just can't imagine any proper car enthusiasts being impressed by someone trying to make
>> a Vauxhall look like a Lotus. More likely to get ribbed about it.


I have an enormous amount of sympathy, and on occasions admiration, for anybody who has a hobby they love that much. Hurts nobody and gives them a huge amount of enjoyment.
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 Tue 7 Sep 21 08:28 
 Cost too much to Tax a Lambo.......... - Boxsterboy
>> I just can't imagine any proper car enthusiasts being impressed by someone trying to make
>> a Vauxhall look like a Lotus. More likely to get ribbed about it.
>>

Yes, but a VX220 is not really a Vauxhall - it's a Lotus Elise with Vauxhall-designed body panels (and different engine) so to make it look like an Elise-sired Exige would not have been too difficult and probably why the Police were taken in by it. A great engineering project that looks just like the real thing. Man-maths is the only way to justify the money spent by some owners on their cars.
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 Wed 1 Sep 21 20:50 
 Cost too much to Tax a Lambo.......... - henry k
As you might guess I have no sympathy whatsoever.
I have to pay £500+ p.a.for a bog standard 2.5L petrol auto AWD Jaguar X type.
Retais at about £5K. About 10 on Autotrader.
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 Wed 1 Sep 21 20:58 
 Cost too much to Tax a Lambo.......... - No FM2R
>>As you might guess I have no sympathy whatsoever.

You and me both. Ridiculous to have a car like that and then not wish to pay the RFL.
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