I had an e-mail from my dealer today saying 'beat the vehicle tax rate increases buy before April and save £1000's'. Well I thought that the new rate was £140 p/a and only much higher for vehicles costing over £40000 so what's the dealer up to? I'd missed this one completely. Looking at the tax tables on the Gov.UK site, the first year is based on CO2 emissions, so at 144 g/km our new Yeti will cost £200 for the first year then £140. I won't go into more details but top-end rates are excessively high, although I don't suppose high wealth individuals care much anyway.