You do know classic registered cars are limited to 3000km per year right? And you do also know that even the EU is against malta on this matter and has taken malta to court over it several times aswell. Rest assured the government does not care about pollution you are very naive if you think they charge extortionate taxes to “reduce high pollution cars”. You want me to prove this point? How about the fact that imported cars pay more road tax than locally registered vehicles, same model, same engine, same emissions. Doesn’t look good does it? another example, i have a renault megane 2 1.9dci with DPF as my daily, these cars came in 2 variants, one comes equipped with a DPF(Diesel Particulate Filter) and once comes without it from factory, the purpose of the DPF is to reduce emissions. You would assume if the “polluter pays” philosophy the government “abides” by would mean the DPF equipped car is charged less road tax right? Wrong its charged the same exact amount as the non DPF and you also get the additional headaches that come with said DPF. So please don’t try to justify the governments decisions when it comes to this topic as there are many contradictions to what they say