>It's time to also take into account area when it comes to vehicle tax in my opinion, even European "cars" (SUVs) are bulging out of normal parking spaces these days.
Man, everything old is new again. Remember when shortsighted idiots killed compact pickups and balooned SUVs with the CAFE footpring rule?
What you're advocating for sounds like it's end up being a punitive tax on minivans.
I'm hardly alone in this. This year my government already proposed including size in road taxes: https://archive.is/HGoSB (NL, use your favourite translation service)
The CAFE footprint rule killed compact cars because huge cars were permitted to be exempt. I don't see why we'd need another such exemption, other than the business vehicle exemptions we already have (otherwise vans and trucks would be impossible to afford for anyone).
As for a punitive tax on minivans: if those minivans take up more space on the road/parking spaces/public spaces, I don't see why not. The impact doesn't need to be high enough to kill minivans in general, just enough not to drive an 80% minivan to work every day.
Man, everything old is new again. Remember when shortsighted idiots killed compact pickups and balooned SUVs with the CAFE footpring rule?
What you're advocating for sounds like it's end up being a punitive tax on minivans.