VRT and NOx

[dergside]

Damn, so chances are people will pay more even if their overall model is on the VRT calculator. For example, I'm currently looking at a M Sport Plus but in the calculator, it only lists M Sport.

True, but only if the car is 4 years old or less. Older, and option prices are irrelevant.

M-Sport Plus is an option pack with a price, rather than a trim level in itself. Revenue add a diminishing percentage of this price to the OMSP, the exact % being determined by the age of the car. Beyond 4 years old the value of options is irrelevant and is disregarded as regards OMSP. The price they use for a computation is most likely the price declared locally by the distributor for the same option pack, if its available on equivalent cars locally. If its not, I image that they use some common sense in grossing up the price of the pack in the market of original sale, generally UK.

I think the UK price of an M-Sport Plus pack on an F30 a couple of years ago was around stg£2.5k.

[Roberto]

True, but only if the car is 4 years old or less. Older, and option prices are irrelevant.

That isn't strictly accurate. When researching E63 prices last year, the VRT was often actually more expensive for SE models than M-Sport.