Scrappage scheme cars: Still on the runway!

One assumes that every single one of these cars was scrapped because the owners no longer wanted them, didn't believe that they could get a better deal by selling the old car and negotiating a dealer discount and they wanted a new car. Hard really to fault the owner's logic.

However, I do agree entirely that they could quite reasonably be broken up for spares and it might make an interesting training / employment opportunity - if the Tory Government actually believed in either training or employment :(
 
Firestar_3x said:
Swings in roundabouts, personally i'd rather be stuck behind some 6k korean tin can, than a £100 Escort chucking out undisclosed amounts of smoke with the cheapest brake pads and tyres fitted.
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But it seems that a large amount of cars were not the £100 Escorts or similar, there were some decent cars.

I'm pretty sure a lot of these cars were traded in due to sheer laziness. Why go to the hassle of selling when you can throw it away for £2k?
Given the state of this country, far too many people will have been blinkered by the scrappage scheme adverts. Large red cash symbols on the screen and shiny, disgusting cars being shown?

*watches advert*
I NEED TO TRADE IN, NEED NEW CAR!!! MUST OWN IT!! etc, etc...
 
stockhausen said:
However, I do agree entirely that they could quite reasonably be broken up for spares and it might make an interesting training / employment opportunity - if the Tory Government actually believed in either training or employment :(
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Go on then clever clogs, tell me how the current government are to blame for a scheme that the previous government ran?
 
Emlyn_Dewar said:
I just find this completely bizarre...
How was it ever seen as a good idea? It can only have done bad things for the country in the long run?
Roads filled with comedy Korean tins, meanwhile, thousands of working, decent condition cars rot away...
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It might just about have made sense if they'd restricted the new cars being purchased to British cars. As it was it was a pretty stupid scheme. My mother in law gave up a really well kept R reg Escort Ghia that could have easily been kept going, but which had negligible scrap value, in exchange for £2k off a Yaris. It doesn't make sense.

One of the key arguments that was put forward was the level of emissions from old cars, which completely disregards the fact that manufacturing a car from scratch has a massive carbon footprint compared to actually running it.

Stoopid.
 
4T5 said:
They should at least be stripped for spares sold & the money go towards the deficit. That waste is Criminal. :(
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At the very least these should all be given to developing countries or something. I'd be glad of some of those cars, i can only think how happy it would make the average north african family to be given a BMW 740i :D
 
vonhelmet said:
One of the key arguments that was put forward was the level of emissions from old cars, which completely disregards the fact that manufacturing a car from scratch has a massive carbon footprint compared to actually running it.

Stoopid.
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one of the key counter arguments was that these cars had already been manufacturerd and were sitting around unsold because of the recession.

So offering the incentive didnt increase car production and co2 output because the cars were already made to meet a demand that wasn't there.
 
MrLoL, everytime I see one of your serious replies I just think 'Wiki ?'

Don't know why, that damn post by Fox has clearly emotionally compromised me! :(
 
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