Wierd or what?

i really could not and still can not understand how they got away with this. All its done is made a few quid for hyundai and made sure that anybody who needs a 500 quid banger cant get one.


Rich
 
They 'got away' with it because a lot of people got a lot of money off buying a new car & many of them probably didn't give two hoots about the claimed benefits of the scheme. Just the £2000 off which they probably could have negotiated with the dealers fairly easily without taxpayers money. Anyway, hopefully Labour won't get away with it & it will contribute to their downfall in four weeks time.
Very few positive comments & some very interesting ones too:

"I pay for a very expensive EA license for my vehicle recycling facility. I am not allowed to store any car with any oil or other liquids left in on my premises.
In the pictures there are 1000's of cars all stored with liquids left in, the article says the are waiting to go to a licensed facility, where they will be drained
before they are crushed. I would like to know if the airfield has a license to store the cars ?, No one else can store vehicles on unlicensed premises
without the risk of a very large fine. Are there different rules for a government run scheme ?"

Does a bear defecate in the woods? :roll:


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Straight after the budget last year, a GREEN party spokesperson said that the scheme was wrong as it encouraged people to dispose of cars after 10 years.

If cars lasted 20 years instead, have a guess....how much energy would be saved?? :?
 
What happens to the used value of a new car purchased under the scrappage scheme ? It can't have done second hand prices any good
I see Ford and Vauxhall are lowering their prices but that's only because they put them up to offset the discounts they had to offer under the scrappage scheme
Crazy ..........
 
I wish I hadn't looked at that article now, I feel quite sick having seen all those perfectly good cars. Several nice Mercs in one shot alone for christs sake !

Forget reducing the value of 2nd hand cars, the price at the bottom end has rocketed recently, very hard to find anything < £400, whereas a year or so back I was turning away free cars. The scrappage scheme and scrap metal prices have driven prices up. People that have to buy very cheap cars are really going to struggle now.
 
I was staggered to read a letter printed in a motoring supplement recently from someone who'd traded his BMW 3 series in under the scrappage scheme and was asking if it was likely to be saved as it was such a nice car! He'd heard that some scrappage victims end up being exported to Russia and was hoping it would happen to his.
 
Tofufi said:
Phil Robson said:
... a staggering 42% :shock: :shock:

Enjoy your 30 odd or 40 odd year old P6! :D
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Have you a link to any figures to back that up? :)

Just interested... 8)
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No, but I ought to look!

The figure was quoted on Radio 4's Today programme. I was keenly listening as I've always thought this part of the debate was conveniently overlooked, & I expected the response to the scrappage scheme to be something like.."good, but it doesn't go far enough". Needless to say I nearly fell off my chair :)

Not the sort of figures you hear very often... :roll:
 
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