It’s funny how some things seem to slip peoples minds at the most important of times when it’s going to make them look good, yet when the bad times come they’ll blame someone else.

So the UK government and Alistair Darling have just announced the Budget, and they have finally confirmed what we all suspected about the Scrappage Scheme that it will go ahead and you will get £2,000 for a car over 10 years old. Well this is a great step forward in getting cleaner and more fuel efficient cars on to the road.  But we have a few small issues.

Firstly the government say you’ll get £2,000 which you will, but on second glance you’ll realise that your new car manufacturer is actually stumping up £1,000 of the costs. The Government now doesn’t look quite as rosey as it did 5 minutes ago. It also will make the Car manufacturers worse off as they are having to fork out the extra £1,000, which will make them less likely to give customers discounts.

Second item, what stops someone buying a second hand Ford Fiesta Popular from Ebay with 1 years tax and test for say £500, then 1 month later going and taking it to a local Ford dealer and getting £1500 off a new Ford Focus RS.
We think there are a few loop holes if you’re in the market for a new car even if yours is fairly new you can sell it privately whilst seeing what deal you would get from the dealer and then asking “well what if I did the Scrappage Scheme”

Lastly what’s going to happen to all these scrapped vehicles and will it affect the price of metal. Surely all these extra cars will be melted down but that all takes extra time space and pollution from the melting plants.

Old Porsche's Scrapped