Motor tax hike not the way to go

IN VIEW of the proposed motor tax increases, I wonder if Environment Minister John Gormley is living in the real world.

Apparently now a 1.6-litre car is classified as ‘big’. Pray tell what logic is behind this?

If any family is lucky enough to have three teenagers, what car can safely accommodate them? As far as I can see, pretty much nothing with an engine capacity less than 1.6 litres is available with sufficient capacity to seat three more or less fully grown people in the rear. Squashing three people in the rear of a small car is neither safe nor clever.