Scirocco Van

[sciroccokartei]

Here the new Scirocco Van (DK)

http://www.volkswagen.dk/vw/personbiler ... rocco-Van/

[ryancooke]

im gonna take the seats out of mine and put two bits of perspex in and call it a van

[rehmondo]

The reason why the call it a Van as its a yellow plate business vehicle - in DK there is this ridiculous rule that when buying a vehicle on business purchase it must have the rear seats removed - and then the car is given yellow plates to differentiate it from all the other cars on the road.

By purchasing on business the car works out a little cheaper for the buyer but not a lot and for those of you wondering how much does the Scirocco cost in DK well.... the standard Scirocco 2.0 GT spec (manual) costs 415,999.00 DKK = 50,429.88 GBP

So its not really a Van just given that name to highlight to show what the Business purchase vehicle would look like - I know this because I was born in Denmark

My uncle has a Business purchased 4x4 in DK - looks so so wrong without the back seats.


You learn something new everyday here!

[Evil Derboy]

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[Christian 9ff GT2]

I've heard about this law in Denmark. They did it with a TT as well.

http://www.worldcarfans.com/9070927.009 ... -tt-pickup

The Audi TT has not been approved for pick-up use by the tax authority here in Denmark, so therefore the vehicle can't be registered. As seen on the pictures the car has pre-license plates which means that it's not fully legal registered for all time road use. These plates is normal used at a car dealer for customer test drives.

Because of the insane TAX and VAT laws here in DK normal cars is assigned to 25% VAT and 180% TAX. A "Van model" is assigned to 50% TAX and 25% VAT if it's private owned and 50% TAX and 0% VAT if it's company owned.

Due to vehicle registration law a Van model is rebuild so it has a larger boot than normal for goods transportation.

example:
in dkkr
Audi A3 2,0 TFSI (Van) - Base price: 155.391,- + VAT: 38.847,- + TAX: 82.484,- Total: 276.722,- = 33.367 GBP
Audi A3 2,0 TFSI (Normal) - 419.904,- = 50.637 GBP
50.637 -33.367 = 17.270 GBP saved if you can spare the rear seats

[wigit]

good option for those who want to ditch the seats for weight saving, off topic but are mini vans popular, no rear seats and a bigger boot would makes so much sense

[Christian 9ff GT2]

good option for those who want to ditch the seats for weight saving, off topic but are mini vans popular, no rear seats and a bigger boot would makes so much sense

Yes it's a good option for those who dont want to pay double price.
The sale has not yet kicked for them due to the financial crisis, infact i have only seen 2 mini vans on the streets so thats not so impressive

[bianco]

I have got'n me one of those vans, and the boot is almost as big as in my wifes Ford Mondeo stationcar - and thats before she folds the rear seat

[tjanum]

By purchasing on business the car works out a little cheaper for the buyer but not a lot and for those of you wondering how much does the Scirocco cost in DK well.... the standard Scirocco 2.0 GT spec (manual) costs 415,999.00 DKK = 50,429.88 GBP

Perhaps you were born in Denmark, but your take on how much "a little cheaper for the buyer but not a lot" is, is in no sense very Danish

Missing out on the rear seats the price on my Roc was 42,500 £ as opposed to 70,100 £ with rear seats. I seriously doubt that many people with a somewhat normal pay check would call a saving of more than 27,500 £ "a little cheaper but not a lot". To my knowledge this price difference is approx. equal to the actual price of a Roc in the UK (you lucky bastards ). At least I don't have any kids, so I had a hard time convincing myself that rear seating would be worth 27,500 £ .

They actually have the same kind of car tax laws in Norway, though their car taxes are no way nearly as high as the Danish dittos - and their plates are green instead of yellow on cars with cheaper tax and no rear seats.

[rehmondo]

Sorry to upset you but my assumption was based on the price I had worked out for the GT model obviously this wasn't correct then - hence I thought it was £45K with the rear seats!

You don't have to justify anything - its your choice lmao

[tjanum]

Hehe...you didn't upset me. Just wanted to clarify that the difference is not subtle on having the rear seats or not in DK, and it's not (only ) because we are very silly people, that we take out the rear seats.