RAC Foundation: Scrap Cars Older Than 18 Years
Motoring group believes scrapping old cars is green solution
The future for classics?
Rejecting the Government’s idea of higher taxes or more regular inspections on older, thirstier cars, the RAC Foundation has recognised that the majority of ‘older car’ owners are on a low income – so taxing them out of their cars would be unfair. The Foundation believes that a well implemented scheme will benefit the used and new car industries, while also keeping roads ‘greener’.
RAC Foundation Director Stephen Glaister said: ‘Making it affordable for motorists to scrap clapped-out cars and opt instead for a cleaner, more fuel-efficient and more reliable vehicle could be a way for the Government to support greener motoring. This is an essential ingredient of a proper "dust-to-dust" emissions assessment.’
In layman’s terms – scrap your old car for more money than it’s worth and get a greener one, thereby saving the world one rust bucket at a time.
Glaister added: ‘Motorists can't afford to be on the receiving end of another muddled, poorly thought out scheme like the VED proposals unveiled in March. Any scrappage scheme should be further researched before implementation in order to benefit the environment, motorists and manufacturers, without distorting the market.’
The report also found that when a car is sold or scrapped it is usually replaced with one a few years younger. This, they say, should be the thing to give the new and used markets a boost, as there will be almost constant change over.
have they never heard about lifetime emissions, why scrap a perfectly good car when it reaches 18 years old, if it's lasted that long it's likely to have been looked after anyway, all the nails usually die before that
I certainly do not see an excess of old bangers on the roads anyway
I do think money for scrapping old cars is a really good idea. Generally, people with classic cars tend to have a little more money than the people this report is aimed at, so it wouldn't necessarily affect them people (Unless they made is mandatory, of course.)
Rather a shortsighted view to assume all 17-18 year old cars are "clapped-out", don't you think?
k kind of piss poor stupid st eating mother fker came up with this wk excuse for a fking news bulletin? How the f
k will getting rid of old cars that have paid off their production costs to the fking envir-fking-ment do any good? What a load of f
king ste gets spewed out by these fking companies? - the fking R A C in fking deed? Buncha small dicked overweight cocksucking halatosis blessed cocknoses. GAAAH.This sort of pisspoor non productive s
t is just wk.
Don't forget that despite what the industry want you to believe, each new car thats made adds tons & tons of carbon to the atmosphere during its component manufacture, assembly & distribution.
That's not to mention the many environmentally damaging materials still used in production processes, and the freighting and transportation of all those thousands of components needed for each new car, most of which are made in the far east, no doubt in pollution pumping factories that don't adhere to the stricter environmental standards we have here in the west.
Most cars of 18 years and older, that are still in use, are either cherished classics (that do hardly any miles comparitively) or bloody good workhorses that have been pretty well looked after.
Seriously, this is a complete non-issue. How many cars over 10 years old, let alone 18 years old, did you see on your way into work this morning?
Not like we're exactly tripping over them is it?
All aboard the CO2 gravy train...
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