angelo Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 If the UK introduces the £2000 old car scrappage scheme, will it happen here also ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 no we'll drive them onto the steam packet off the other end dump them on a council estate, have a fun week end, come back and still save money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WTF Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 old cars make good ornamants burried bonnet first in your lawn, sort of a petrol heads easter island?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manxman8180 Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 there will always be someone who wants to take a banger off your hands. Parts / Stock cars.......etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slinkydevil Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 I think he means you get a £2000 bonus payout towards a new car if you scrap an old one, not it will cost you £2000. Doesn't look like it will happen in the UK yet though: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/poli...icle6074568.ece Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiger lily Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 we agree that in ilse of mann we needin £2000 scrappage but £2000 for every mhk we scrappin chef want scrap mr bell firs corse mr kong worri lot he say mr bell soon be payin everyone such big Tax Credit that nobodi want cheep workin i disgree i think mr bell hav verri good idea all citizen collec money from tax man insted of payin reely wanderful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manshimajin Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 Is scrappage a good idea? Chances are that people would buy a German, Czech, Spanish, French, Korean or Japanese car. If they buy one made in the UK it will in the main be from a company whose parent is Indian, German, Japanese or American (these days the biggest British owned manufacturere is Mogan). You get rid of your car that has already suffered its massive depreciation, get £2,000 to offset from the cost of a new one then drive off the forecourt and collect at least £3 -4,000 of depreciation on the spot. The there's the environmental impact of scrapping an old car and building a new one (estimated to be about 33% of the total CO2 emissions caused by cars (unless you buy a Prius in which case it is more)). What's the betting the motor trade will try to minimise discounts because of 'scrappage'? Overall if money is being handed out could it be more usefully employed? I have a 12 year old car that I have had serviced regularly. It has clocked up about 10,000 miles per year. It has finished its depreciation cycle (its probably worth close to zero now). It is comfortable. It drives well. (Touch wood) it is reliable. If I hand it in for £2,000 presumably it would be scrapped - what a waste of resources and energy. And then I'd have to get a loan from one of the wanks to buy the next one, £2,000 or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manshimajin Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 UK Society Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slim Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 It's a bloody stupid idea. The government are on one hand taxing cars hard to encourage alternatives, and on the other thinking of subsidizing their purchase through a scrappage scheme? Really hasn't been thought through. Discount alternatives, but don't encourage people to throw away perfectly good things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesultanofsheight Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 If the UK introduces the £2000 old car scrappage scheme, will it happen here also ? No. Why would it? We are not the UK has anyone not told you that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebrof Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 If the UK introduces the £2000 old car scrappage scheme, will it happen here also ? No. Why would it? We are not the UK has anyone not told you that? If he thought we were the UK, there would have been no need for his question. S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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