........it is now. This could be the shape of things to come, yesterday the Irish Minister of the Enviroment ( Green party ) introduced new car tax based on CO2 emmissions, so my dream date with an 07 Defender could come to nought. Currently a 2.5 lt disesel costs about € 850 to tax under these new regs it would cost € 2000 because any new vehicle emitting more than 225 grams of CO2 per Km will be in this band. The defender CO2 emmissions ( according to brochure ) is 295 grams of CO2 per km.