Plans for another scrappage scheme

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Sounds like government plans are afoot to incentivise people into ditching their old diesels in a desperate attempt to reduce emissions, having spectacularly missed targets.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/02/officials-drawing-plans-diesel-scrappage-scheme-cut-emissions/

As the owner of a ten year old diesel Volvo, I will of course be taking advantage of any gifts that come my way, whether or not the scheme is deemed to be a good idea overall. It'll stipulate that people swap them for some very low emission vehicle though. Maybe a hybrid something or other.
 
Interesting, i have a 15 year old diesel but i do live in a very rural area so be interesting to see if i'd be eligible.

Saying that it'd need to be a very attractive deal to trade in something that does no depreciation, £30 road tax and 65MPG.
 
Surely in light of the recent VED band changes, this is just to generate a load of 1st year VED + put a load of cars back onto "normal" rates, rather than the free/£20/£30 brackets.
 
sovietspybob said:
Interesting, i have a 15 year old diesel but i do live in a very rural area so be interesting to see if i'd be eligible.

Saying that it'd need to be a very attractive deal to trade in something that does no depreciation, £30 road tax and 65MPG.
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A £30 a year car (if you replace with a new one) is now £160 for year one and £140 a year after that for the same CO2 output on the new VED rules this year.

If it costs over £40k new you have to pay an additional £310 a year on top for 5 years.

Clearly the Government are unhappy about people paying little tax on low CO2 cars.
 
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Yea the new tax system is pretty bad if you want an ecobox. People will soon be scrambling to buy older ones for the free tax, not new ones.
 
Minstadave said:
A £30 a year car (if you replace with a new one) is now £160 for year one and £140 a year after that for the same CO2 output on the new VED rules this year.

If it costs over £40k new you have to pay an additional £310 a year on top for 5 years.

Clearly the Government are unhappy about people paying little tax on low CO2 cars.
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If im driving around in a 15 year old diesel i don't think the £40k new car limit will effect me at all :p

But yeah i get your point, it'd only be worth it to move to an ultra low emission or zero emission car. If they could do a very very good deal on moving to an electric car i'd be interested, something like a Leaf or whatever as long as it could do 130~ miles on a charge in any weather.
 
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