Thanks all.
Peter, first congrats on your car! Is it right you pay higher tax for a petrol engine of same cubic capacitiy?
Heinz. In Italy the tax is payable on the declared maximum power odf the engine and the Euro class.
In Lombardia for a Euro 6 engine of 180cv the tax at the moment is €361, for a 250cv engine the tax is €560. I think methane/gpl costs €20 less.
I don't expect to be doing more than about 6,000km a year in this car (plus 10,000km a year in the Morgan) so it should last me a good while. As long as the powers that be don't make life too difficult for diesel in the next few years (already Euro 3 is becoming difficult in this part of the world) it should do me until I'm in my early 80s. By then who knows what I will want to drive