Ripe for the scrapheap?

[Mich the Tester]

Under this newfangled bonus for scrapping your car scheme that's being rolled out all over Europe, people wil get bonusses if they scrap their ten year old cars and buy a new one.

All very well, but it isn't really having much effect, perhaps because ten year old cars are often just not really ready for the scrapheap. Here's a ten year old car. Isn't it a bit disingenuous to claim that this is good for the environment? Perhaps people don't want to scrap their ten year old cars because they're actually quite happy with them?

[DimPrawn]

Evidently the take of the scheme in the UK has been so good, the funds will run out in a few months.

It's the stupidity of the British public.

[Mich the Tester]

Evidently the take of the scheme in the UK has been so good, the funds will run out in a few months.

It's the stupidity of the British public.

Stupidity indeed. Wasteful too. I could find countless examples like the BMW above of perfectly useful and in fact very nice cars that are ten years old; it seems this scheme is designed to make consumers even more wasteful than they were during the mad years of the credit boom.

[Moscow Mule]

It's the stupidity of the British public.

I don't think getting 2-4k off a new car for this 10 year old car I found on Autotrader is that stupid...

1998 DAEWOO LANOS 1.6 SX 5dr Hatchback
Price: £220 ono
Features:
100,000 milesManualSilverPetrolHatchback1598 cc
Full Description:
Glossary of Terms
5 Door Hatchback, Silver, Petrol, Manual. £220 ono.

[Troll]

Under this newfangled bonus for scrapping your car scheme that's being rolled out all over Europe, people wil get bonusses if they scrap their ten year old cars and buy a new one.

All very well, but it isn't really having much effect, perhaps because ten year old cars are often just not really ready for the scrapheap. Here's a ten year old car. Isn't it a bit disingenuous to claim that this is good for the environment? Perhaps people don't want to scrap their ten year old cars because they're actually quite happy with them?

Yer can't beat a 12 year old 4x4

[Mich the Tester]

I don't think getting 2-4k off a new car for this 10 year old car I found on Autotrader is that stupid...

1998 DAEWOO LANOS 1.6 SX 5dr Hatchback
Price: £220 ono
Features:
100,000 milesManualSilverPetrolHatchback1598 cc
Full Description:
Glossary of Terms
5 Door Hatchback, Silver, Petrol, Manual. £220 ono.

Not in that case, no, but are most ten year old cars plenty cheapness daewoos are are most of them actually quite nice cars?

[The Lone Gunman]

It's another backhanded handout to the lower classes.
People who would always be a couple of grand short of a new car can now trade in the car they can afford and buy a brand new shiney one.

It will provide a spike in new car sales but will kill the second hand market for years to come.

[MrMark]

I think the point of this scheme has been to get car workers back working on the production line (and it's worked locally - both BMW in Cowley and Honda in Swindon have restarted their production lines). Forget any crap about the environment

[Cyberman]

My car is 10 years old but worth far more than 2K so the deal does nothing for me.

[DimPrawn]

I think the point of this scheme has been to get car workers back working on the production line (and it's worked locally - both BMW in Cowley and Honda in Swindon have restarted their production lines). Forget any crap about the environment

The majority of the trade-ins has keen at the really low end of the market.

This is just a way of sending uK taxpayers money to prop-up Korean car manufacturers such as Kia, Hyundai, Perodua, SsangYong and the like.