Its not even green, its well known that to recycle an old car and make a new car takes more energy and gives out more pollution than an old car would in its entire lifetime.
New cars go wrong more often than old cars too.
And what about independant garages? All of these older cars which they used to service, repair and fix, there are now so fewer cars (300,000?) that garages will feel the pinch too. New cars will be under warrnaty for 3-7 years!
Crazy idea and now whats going to happen, surely most people who were wanting a new car and who had a 10 year old plus car has their new car. Will there be a slump in the new car market once again? Or maybe they will cut the crazy prices once this scheme is over.
And your quite right, most cars are made abroad, so how did the UK benefit from this?
Its mad to get rid of older cars, they are usually very clean running anyway, they offer cheaper transport and give better service - new cars are so complicated that they wont last as long (maybe thats the plan? Cars are throw away items now).
Where are peoples first cars now? All those old Micras, Clios, fietas that people need to gain their first mile on the road in their own car. There are fewer as a result, and on the whole prices have increased for used cars.
There have been some seriously mint cars going to scrap for no reason. All because its owner desires the current registration plate.
I can see why people buy new cars, hassle free with the warranties etc, but what happens when they are out of warranty, they are back to the same situation but left driving around in a korean matchbox.
Oh, and it was hinted at that the prices of new cars have increased during the scrappage scheme. Its either in direct relation to this or just inflation, but in the past year or two cars have shot up in price.
Take the Citroen C1, when it first appeared in 2005 it was priced from £6,500, then offers made it even cheaper. However the list price now starts at almost £9,000.
The new fiesta, starts from £11000 for a bog standard one with huge bin lids on the wheels, no air con, not even met.paint. £11K! And if you want one with toys and a diesel engine, that will be over £16K!
Maybe im well out of touch with todays finances, but that seems like crazy prices for tiny cars. Just think of the depreciation!
Obvioiusly new cars prices are rising, but that seems like an awful big rise?
Oh to be back in the 90s! My parents bought a new Xantia TD LX in 95 for £12K, bearly gets you a 1.2 Fiesta in todays money
And that 16K for a fiesta diesel, back in 95, that would almost get a 2.0 Xm SX! Irrelevant i know
