Scrappage Continued

[TW]Fox;16303338 said:
Exactly. Many supported the scheme before it was announced - I think they thought it would be a case of 'Trade in your belching, smoking, rusty heap of 15 year old Escort' rather than 'Trade in your lovely, mint condition, reliable Mk4 Golf'.

The rules were ridiculous. By insisting you had owned the car for over a year AND it had an MOT on it you removed all the dodgy bangers from eligibility from the scheme! How many people in properly tatty nails have owned them for a long period of time? Hardly any of them. How many of the people in properly tatty nails are in a financial position to buy a new car anyway even with Scrappage? Hardly any of them.

All it did was allow nice middle class people who've owned the same car for years and looked after it very well to simply get rid of it and get something new.

Removing EXACTLY the sort of used car you want to find in the sub £3k market from the market entirely, leaving behind the dross that should not have been on the road.
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You are forgetting it also pushed the price of those god awful superminis up by £2k as well.
 
Settleddown said:
I agree with that, most cars put forward for the scrappage scheme are in much much better shape than a load of old heap on our roads, look at the American version don’t they put some sort of chemical in the engine and let it die??
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Sodium silicate is the mixture of choice I believe in the Cash For Clunkers scheme. It still seems a terrible waste, not quite sure whether they are allowed to reclaim any parts from the scrapped cars but I'd guess you must be able to since they're not cubed.
 
Whilst the influx of Hyundai and other foriegn car sales have increased, has the scrappage scheme had any positive impact on the UK economy?

If it has/hasn't please state why. :)
 
This angers me so much I reckon you should be able to swap your car for a scrapped one seeing as the real bad cars are in the hands of those without enough money to buy a new one even with scrappage
at the end the day why difference does it make if you swap a car for one that would be scrapped even if there in better condition it's the metal they want anyway
 
Eliot said:
This angers me so much I reckon you should be able to swap your car for a scrapped one seeing as the real bad cars are in the hands of those without enough money to buy a new one even with scrappage
at the end the day why difference does it make if you swap a car for one that would be scrapped even if there in better condition it's the metal they want anyway
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I like your thinking. I'd love to drive there in the clapped out old 1.4 205 we have and swap it for a half decent car from the ones parked there. :)
 
Eliot said:
This angers me so much I reckon you should be able to swap your car for a scrapped one seeing as the real bad cars are in the hands of those without enough money to buy a new one even with scrappage
at the end the day why difference does it make if you swap a car for one that would be scrapped even if there in better condition it's the metal they want anyway
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That would make too much sense, you should know that.

Why would you want to get a death trap off the road when you can get rid of a perfectly decent, well looked after example of something.
 
Eliot said:
This angers me so much I reckon you should be able to swap your car for a scrapped one seeing as the real bad cars are in the hands of those without enough money to buy a new one even with scrappage
at the end the day why difference does it make if you swap a car for one that would be scrapped even if there in better condition it's the metal they want anyway
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See now some clever thinking like this would make much more sense. Or like Fox said, a "tradeage" scheme. But no wait, "our" government came up with the idea. Silly me. :)

It angers me, greatly. I hate our nation's obsession with brand new tiny poxy hatchbacks. I hate the narrow-sightedness of everyone who supports and uses the scheme, thinking it's doing some good.


But I find the london taxi cab in that photo quite amusing :D


And is that an older Impreza I see next to the blue Mk4 Golf which is infront of the silver-blue Freelander towards the middle-left?
 
Why the hell would you get rid of an MR2 on the scrappage scheme, or that audi. They must have been grade A idiots to get rid of those!
 
Am I the only person on these forums who thinks it's a ok idea to stimulate the economy ?

Sure you could argue it's a waste of resources, but I don't really care, and do you ?

Not a labour fan by a long shot, but at end of day they are just metal boxes on wheels.. and none of them are worth 'that much' more than 2k anyway. Get them crushed and recycled

The scheme on the whole has been a success I think, there are a lot of small new cars on the road since it was introduced, which is good for the economy, and, if you worry about fake global warming caused by car c02, the enviroment. (lol worthy)
 
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thecremeegg said:
Whilst they may look like decent from the outside, I'm willing to bet that many of them will be screwed up mechanically
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Whilst it's nice to think that way, it's unlikely. People are just too stupid and blinded by the OMG TWO THOUSAND POUNDS DISCOUNT nonsense


Flukester said:
Am I the only person on these forums who thinks it's a ok idea to stimulate the economy ?

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Which part of the economy is it stimulating?
 
[TW]Fox;16303907 said:
2 Pumas!
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3 :(
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I've always had a soft spot for these to.
 
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