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Freelander Adverts (don't mention the car tax)

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Posted by: Green Fingers Thursday 10th July 2008, 11:37am

Freelander has been identified as one of the most popular cars to be walloped with increased vehicle excise duty.

Always one to grab a bargain the revelation that Freelanders are to be amongst the vehicles to be hit by car tax hikes has presented an opportunity to pick up some good deals as motorists try to sell their gas guzzlers lots of free classified adverts for Freelanders indicate that the prices are falling and there is debate if this is purely a reflection on the vehicle excise duty increase or another nail in the credit crunch coffin.

Freelander amongst top five hit hardest

"admitted that five of the UK's 30 most popular cars would pay more - the 2.2l diesel Land Rover Freelander, the 1.6l unleaded Toyota Auris, the 2.2l diesel Honda CR-V, the 1.8l unleaded Vauxhall Vectra and the 1.6l unleaded Vauxhall Zafira."

Yahoo UK Cars feature an illuminating review of the Freelander in which details of the low environmental impact this compact suv has which suggests the increased tax is mis-directed

Dirty Filthy Diesels - Freelander "NOT GUILTY"

Channel 4 Motoring reports that a proportion of each Freelander purchase price generates a contribution to fund climate offset via a company called Climate Care - the amount being designed to reflect CO2 emissions for 3 years typical use or 45K miles.

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