RE: Scrappage carnage detailed
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Fattyfat said:
I'm sure the deal worked out well for plenty of people though. My aunt got rid of her elderly and very rusty Corsa, worth literally scrap value and ended up with a new Clio. Zero interest in cars and no doubt she'll keep the Renault for 15 years.
I bet she still would have been given a discount if the scheme hadn't been in placeQuestion is, fellow shed-drivers of PH, would you partake in a similar scheme if it were to happen again?
Was there a minimum amount of time you had to own a car for before selling it on? I could see it working out quite favouribly if you were smart at the time. Take a £250 scrapper with ticket to a dealer for a new car (remember the discounts were often more than £2k off the sticker price) and immediately sell it on at a profit.
Then go out and buy something older / better.
It's what I'd do!
Was there a minimum amount of time you had to own a car for before selling it on? I could see it working out quite favouribly if you were smart at the time. Take a £250 scrapper with ticket to a dealer for a new car (remember the discounts were often more than £2k off the sticker price) and immediately sell it on at a profit.
Then go out and buy something older / better.
It's what I'd do!
There have been a number of comments about what some of these cars are worth now such as quoting a value of 7500 for a Mercedes 190,
The values of many of these cars that we would now call retro classics was probably in fact pushed up by the demise of so many which has made the survivors potentially much rarer.
The numbers of MX5s and MGs were pretty high as well but could the enthusiast market support so many on the road anyway as they get older?...I doubt it could.
The values of many of these cars that we would now call retro classics was probably in fact pushed up by the demise of so many which has made the survivors potentially much rarer.
The numbers of MX5s and MGs were pretty high as well but could the enthusiast market support so many on the road anyway as they get older?...I doubt it could.
What is most upsetting to me is that, when clients of mine are not eligible for their extra health insurance (in my country some things are not covered by government health insurance), I offer to pay them the amount they would get if they DID get insurance, they still won't do it. If a big company, which they have paid premiums to over the years offers something, they take it, much like the government in these cases, but if I offer the same deal, they refuse. Humans make no sense.
Negative Creep said:
Fattyfat said:
I'm sure the deal worked out well for plenty of people though. My aunt got rid of her elderly and very rusty Corsa, worth literally scrap value and ended up with a new Clio. Zero interest in cars and no doubt she'll keep the Renault for 15 years.
I bet she still would have been given a discount if the scheme hadn't been in placeThere is one good news story. I the more i read it, i found out that not a single Sierra Cosworth or Escort Cosworth was traded in & destroyed under this terrible nonsense!
So they must have escaped/are worth too much (even Sapphires!) & all are owned by enthusiasts or one might have slipped through though the net just as a ordinary Sierra or an ordinary Escort which would be unlikely & also very stupid.
But sadly, i found out 3 BMW M3's lost their lives & most likely all of them E36's though.
So they must have escaped/are worth too much (even Sapphires!) & all are owned by enthusiasts or one might have slipped through though the net just as a ordinary Sierra or an ordinary Escort which would be unlikely & also very stupid.
But sadly, i found out 3 BMW M3's lost their lives & most likely all of them E36's though.
Maxvr6 said:
Nooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!! This is so painful to read, so many classics destroyed before their time, poor little souls, may they rest in peace 
It always makes me quite sad when I think that once upon a time (more poignantly with the more expensive metal) a man or woman walked into their local dealer and bought a car, and to think of the car sat there, all shiny and new, with the new owner proudly beaming as they get the keys, and now they are reduced to rot heaps. Turbobanana said:
FastRich said:
can't remember said:
I'd like to think the salesman that typed Citron for Citroen knew exactly what he was doing.
Few will get that....it's brilliant!
Hugo a Gogo said:
Turbobanana said:
FastRich said:
can't remember said:
I'd like to think the salesman that typed Citron for Citroen knew exactly what he was doing.
Few will get that....it's brilliant!
Dale487 said:
I suspect your right that most dealers could have offered a similar discount with out the scheme but the idea was to keep the economy going. And I bet 99% of people got rid of a rusty old hen house 9like the fore mentioned Corsa - no tears shed here) & got a new, more reliable & economical car. As has been said before enthusiasts general own the future classic & know what they are worth, so I doubt may if any viable future classic bit the dust due to the scheme.
But even if they weren't classics a large number of perfectly good cars were destroyed, which hurt those on lower incomes needing a cheap runaroundGassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff