Car scrappage scheme
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Nissan Micra, had loads of them through the depollution bay in the last few weeks (it's as if people have been waiting for an excuse to ditch the damn things!)
The pad? no idea. Not forgetting that these are all MOT'd motors one of the guys drove it back from a local dealership with the trade plates and then we found that once we started stripping it.
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It does only apply to cars registered new before 01/09/99 though?
I have yet to hear of anyone using this scheme to buy what I consider a 'decent' car, it's all at the bottom/lower-medium end of the market for the most part, in-fact as has been said, some of the cars being scrapped I would consider better than the shiny plastic high-street decorations with sewing machine engines that are replacing them, it makes me sad in a strange sort of way. How many perfectly good cars have been taken out of service to increase this plague of hateful little roller-skates that are littering our streets from north to south, east to west
I admit to being a bit of a car snob, but I stand by my statements, most of these new scrappage scheme cars (that I have seen at least) are horrible nasty little plastic shopping trolleys which are hateful in just about every way if you love cars and motoring.
The Golf and Passat accepted of course.
I know what you mean about the amount of perfectly good cars going for scrap with this scheme. I know a chap who runs a breakers yard, and while he gets a few old bangers in occasionally from the scheme, the majority are all within a couple of years or so of the cut-off date. They are all perfectly good vehicles, with many many years still left in them. Some of them have been immaculate (in fact, quite a few of them) and I dread to think what the owners replaced them with (although I suppose a percentage were just replaced with a same manfacturer later model). He said to me that it's so annoying having to scrap these vehicles. Ok, you can sell bits off of them, but at the end of the day it's still a waste of perfectly good vehicles.
Same as the Escort and Volvo pictured in this thread. Ok, they're old motors, but they must be somewhere near being as they've got to have an MOT. And if you advertise them in the right places, with a bit of elbow grease and some thought you could get a good price for them. There's always someone who's willing to pay well for a decently kept classic motor.
I still fail to see how a government can so be eco-maniacal on one side and then completely opposite to it on the other side. Especially while we're in a position in this recession where our recycled waste isn't worth anything, and in fact in many cases isn't even wanted.
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Probably one of those Peroduas that Clarkson attackied with a sledgehammer. To be fair it might be worth spending four grand to have the pleasure of destroying a brand new Perodua instead of an older car.
Today.
chop, chop, squash.
Once again, what a complete waste.
The USA has a similar "cash for clunkers" scheme, but classic cars are exempt from crushing (or not allowed to use the scheme, can't remember which)
I agree, absolutely a waste. But you know that that 'classics exempt' USA idea would never happen here - the government would love for all the old classics to be gone - whether they're falling to bits or in pristine condition - the more gone, the less free tax discs they have to give out.
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Complete waste as you know the government don't give too ****s about 'classics'. Hell would I scrap a 1974 Dodge charger!
