He's right the VED does come off it's just the Delivery charge, Number plates and VAT that get added to the final price (in my case it was about £710) which did push me over, however like you said I didn't want to reduce my spec to save £310 per year and then drive around for the next 2-3 years thinking I wish I'd kept the original specHi ... Thanks for this...
I re checked with the salesman who said:-
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So hopefully will be OK, TBH, after thinking about it I'd rather have the right spec than the cheaper tax.. although it does make me very angry... they brought that 40K limit in in 2017, four years on and it's still at 40k... despite price rises in the cars! .... I can see it staying at 40k until such time that a poverty spec Ford Fiesta costs that! (Fiscal creep) ...
Totally agree though that price rises but no change in that limit, means cars are always getting closer - It's such a rip off anyway because you're just taxing once again - The dearer the car the more VAT you pay anyway - Total greed as per usual - It's the second owners etc in years 3-5 who often get caught out though, because you buy a 3-4 year old car say for £25,000 and suddenly find out you're still paying that high VED