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Porsche challenges C-charge rise

by liamssoft | February 19, 2008 at 04:57 am

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Luxury carmaker Porsche is to challenge plans to increase London's congestion charge to £25-a-day for some vehicles.

The firm said it intended to ask for a judicial review into the price changes, which come into force in October.

Porsche says the new rules, which affect the highest polluting vehicles, are "disproportionate" and will not decrease emissions in central London.

Transport for London (TfL) predicts up to 22,000 cars will no longer come into the zone when the new fee comes in.

Under the plans, which will be introduced on 27 October, cars with the lowest carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions will get a 100% discount on the charge.

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liamssoft

at 15:38 on February 21st, 2008

The company, which said it was seeking a reverse of the charge based on its "disproportionate nature", has launched a website to gain support for its campaign.

working man

at 12:47 on February 24th, 2008

Good luck to Porsche, as part of VW group with cars like the Polo bluemotion they are doing much more to reduce CO2 emmisions than the communist joke Livingstone. His £25 a day charge will reduce emmisions by the equivalent of 4hours of aircraft activity at Heathrow. This is nothing to do with green issues and everything to do with old fashioned socialist redistribution of wealth, and partly explains the brain drain going on in UK at moment. Why not just ban private cars from the centre of London? Ummm.......perhaps you couldn't tax that?