Originally Posted by marlam
Re: Mighty Quin’s road tax comment: The tax bracket relates to the date the car was first registered (not emissions). The cut off date was some time in March 2006. Any Crossfire that you buy that is registered before that date has a lower road tax charge. (Check the exact date on the DVLC site.) We missed it by a week with ours and it cost us just shy of an extra £200 to tax.
Our Xfire has had none of the problems that you referred to. Just had it serviced and MOT’d last week at a large independent dealer and the total cost was £222,02, so it is actually quite cheap to run - until you need tyres or the like.
The cutoff date is 23 March 2006, so anything before this is cheaper - for now......