Originally Posted by
walkerwek1958
Many classic cars only do a few hundred miles/year. They don’t spew out ‘all sorts of crap’, no diesel particulates because they’re all petrol, but they do produce higher levels of unburnt hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide than would be permissible nowadays.
As a percentage of total vehicle miles covered in the UK classic cars constitute a tiny fraction, and the owners almost always have an everyday car that they pay tax on. Classic car owners may generally be cleverer than average but they aren’t clever enough to drive two cars at once. The same argument could be used by anyone who has two cars that can only be driven by themself, they should only pay tax on one because they can only drive one car at once.