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Okay, no we don't have that sort of thing here. All you pretty much pay for is the car itself (set monthly payment to the dealer until the car is paid off), a fee that renews your plates every year (and you stick a little tag on the back plate to show that you've done so), insurance, maintenance, and gas. I'm lucky that I got my car from my dad and that it was already paid off.

So we don't have to pay any monthly fees to the government or anyone else, to drive a car here.

s_k

You do here, unfortunately. And it's pretty expensive!
You can calculate it for your car here:
Bereken uw motorrijtuigenbelasting
"Selecteer het soort voertuig" means "select your kind of car"
You want to pick "personenauto". Which is a regular kind of car (everything from mini to mpv, no trucks, vans, commercial van).
Provincie is Province, I live in Limburg (which is one of the cheapest provinces to run a car)
"Selecteer een brandstof" means "choose your kind of fuel". You'll probably have to check "Benzine" (petrol) or "Diesel".
And then there's a drop down menu for weight. My car is 820 kilograms. You have a Volvo if I'm not mistaken so that's probably quite heavy.
Click 'bereken' (calculate) and you'll see what your car would cost here
"per kwartaal" is a quarter of a year (3 months) and "Per jaar" is what it would cost you every year.

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Road tax here goes on car ommisions, so the older your car the dearer really (unless its old enough to be considered a classic car) my cars quite old because its a V registration (made in 2000) and it's £72.50 every 6 months for road tax. :@ I hate road tax. They never fix the ****ing roads anyway.

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It is expensive! I checked it out. My car is a 2000 Volvo S70 T5, and it weighs about 1652 kg (drove it onto a truck scale once) without anything in it. With all the crap that I keep in my car, it definitely weighs a little more. That thing is an absolute tank. I love it.

It said yearly, I would have to pay about 1004 euros, which is about 1300 Canadian dollars. Wow!

s_k

1652 kg!? That's heavier than a Ford Transit.
It should be 1432 kilograms according to the Interwebs .

By the way, A T5. niiice

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That's actually quite cheap .
I wouldn't call 12 years old old. The newest car I've ever owned was a '99 Mitsubishi Colt. And it sucked. The second newest car is the one I have now.

Overhere a car on LPG (autogas, whatever you call it) is most expensive to tax and it's the least polluting fuel. We're being fooled...

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You're right, actually. Either that scale was way off, or I had 200 kilos of stuff in my car

My dad bought that car a little over 11 years ago, brand new and fully loaded (how he buys all his cars, pretty much). Went for the T5 model with 5-speed manual transmission. I don't know how much he paid for the car, but he got it from the dealer when they were selling off the previous year's models. When he bought a new car, he gave that one to me but I had to earn it - good grades in my last year of high school and a good score on my first driving test.

s_k

It's an expensive thing, that's for sure.
Your car would cost as much in road tax for a year as mine costs to buy .

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Here I'm sure you don't pay any road tax on LPG's. And their fuel is half the price. Really should look into one haha.

Here my car is considered old, due to the newer cars being cheaper on road tax it means a lot of people traded old cars in for the new cheaper in the long run cars.

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A Mongoose mountain bike. Too broke to buy a car

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