Full list of cheapest car brands where you'll pay least road tax
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The cheapest car brands where motorists will pay the least tax has been revealed. It is one of the necessary costs which come with owning a car and is a legal requirement. You therefore want to be paying as little car tax as possible or the financial outlay will mount up along with running costs.
Ta x is calculated in different ways and different vehicles can be lower or higher in their tax requirements. Motoring site Carbase compiled a list of different models and the tax of Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) you will be expected to pay depending on the type of vehicle.
The charge depends on the type of vehicle you have. And the outlay goes towards the upkeep of the roads and any improvements. Carbase explains on its site, the cars which require less money are vehicles which are registered after 2017. The site says: "For cars registered after 1 April 2017, electric cars are the cheapest to tax (more accurately, they are free to tax); with alternative fuel cars costing slightly less than traditional petrol or diesel cars (£145 and £155 respectively).".
The motors which are included in the list are electric or hybrid models such as the Nissan Leaf, Tesla Model 3, Hyundai Ioniq, Renault Zoe and Volkswagen e-Golf. These have fewer emissions and are therefore kinder to the environment when using electricity as they do not pollute our atmosphere unlike petrol and diesel models.
Cars with least road tax. 1. Nissan Leaf. 2. Tesla Model 3. 3. Hyundai Ioniq. 4. Renault Zoe. 5. Volkswagen e-Golf. The Mirror reported earlier how car tax rules will see motorists pay £418 more on average to drive a new car from next year. Comparison website Go.Compare, analysed their costs ahead of the car tax rates that are applied to brand new cars going up from April 2025.
