Scrappage Continued

reiyushin said:
Stupid waste by a stupid government.

***NEW SCHEME - TRUE SCRAPPAGE***

Bring your MOT failing POS car to the airfield/drive it to local scrapyard, pay £1000-1500 and drive away with any of the 400,000 perfectly fine cars.

Pros
-Roads safer due to having better cars on it.
-Government turning a profit on a scheme for once.
-Benifits those who can't afford a new car.
-Environment cleaner
-More work for the local grease monkey

Cons
-Money goes to us instead of Korea/inserforeigncountry...
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Are you running in the next election? Gets my vote :D.
 
Nothing to do with the scrapped cars...but the location, you can see why Bedford Autodrome has such stupid noise limits, might upset all those scapped cars or something :rolleyes: (can see a very small slither of it on the first pic at the right hand side)
 
I can see a Nissan Prairie! What is the metallic red estate, and saloon just to the above right of it towards the top in the centre. I've got E46 BMW in my head? Saab convertible there as well!

This scheme seems silly as most of these cars are very good. All that is happening is the second hand market will have less choice and less people will be able to buy/run cars which is what the government wants. See the rising fuel costs, recent changes to the road tax system and all the potential congestion charging and road pricing!
 
That saddens me, such a waste of otherwise perfectly fine cars, albeit they are getting on a bit and may not be like new anymore but I bet most of them are perfectly fine really.
 
Housey said:
These cars won't be scrapped, I bet there are several car retailers 'dissaperaring' them as we speak...
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The car dealer doesn't get their payout until DVLA are notified of "End of Life", once that is processed the car can't have another logbook.
 
That picture makes me sad, knowing the same thing happens here. Perfectly drivable cars with half a year of MOT left scrapped for something new :(. Such a shame to see them destroyed.
 
Shame we can't export them. Or give them to Haiti.

Although I suppose that would mean the government would have to admit that there's actually nothing wrong with their emissions.
 
What gets me most is the general public buying into this scam cant even see it for what it is.
The majority of the UK is fed on this bull**** TV /media buy me, buy me culture.
 
I hate the scheme myself but my grandad traded in his old totoya corolla. It had 200k on it, was really really ***** and abused as it was a delivery car.

He wouldn't have got £2k for that privately but I think he could have still got a discount on a panda before this daft scrappage scheme.
 
I love to see the DM's source and the 'experts' providing the information to the Daily Mail that they are all roadworthy and 'most' could get another 5 years of driving.

I'm going to go out on a limb here, and say that the so-called expert evidence is based entirely on the fact that all the cars must either have a valid MOT certificate, or AFAIK one that expired within 14 days, to make the 'expert projection' that 10 year old cars which passed a MOT within the last year, will last about another 5 years.

I suspect it's about the same level of DM expertise as the 'experts' which can take one look at a photo of a street in Bradford and ascertain that it compromises 55% illegal immigrants, 35% terrorisms and 10% Generally Unpleasant People Of Unknown Foreign Origins.
 
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