@ FOX & Scrappage

[stockhausen]

... I've explained my reasons for asking him a simple question which he has so far avoided answering. ...

Basically because I didn't want a thread in which I was interested derailed by another of your tedious rants.

I either failed adequately to express my point of view about scrappage or you have chosen to forget it.

To summarise:

• I had a 15-year old car that had no safety features at all and was becoming unreliable and expensive to keep running
• I needed to dispose of and replace it
• The Government very kindly offered me more to scrap it than I would have got had I tried to sell it privately
• I bought an Hyundai i20 - with which incidentally, I am very happy
• End of story

Added to this, I repeatedly pointed out that:

• the purpose of the scrappage scheme was to keep motor dealers in business when there appeared to be a slump in the market for new cars
• many 10 year old cars are less safe than modern cars
• the value of any individual car is determined not by what some armchair pundit such as yourself thinks it is worth but by a combination of the value that the owner places on it and what s/he can sell it for
• I consider it to be a good thing if old, unsafe cars are removed from the roads rather than put into the hands of inexperienced, impoverished drivers

Is there anything else with which I can help you?

ps - I probably wont bother