Cash for clunkers - destruction - is it just me or....

[TonyRPH]

Carrot said:

I don't understand people who get emotional over cars.

It is a tool of my life to get me places without walking.

Don't care what happens to it once it is sold on. I am annoyed about the wastefullness of the scrappage scheme in the UK. Plenty of reuseable cars scrapped when they could have been sold to people that can't really afford newer cars.

You can't possibly be a petrolhead then?

[Carrot]

TonyRPH said:

Carrot said:

I don't understand people who get emotional over cars.

It is a tool of my life to get me places without walking.

Don't care what happens to it once it is sold on. I am annoyed about the wastefullness of the scrappage scheme in the UK. Plenty of reuseable cars scrapped when they could have been sold to people that can't really afford newer cars.

You can't possibly be a petrolhead then?

I am interested in engines from a mechanical perspective, and I am learning how they work. I like riding motorcycles. Driving cars I find to be fairly mundane. Where does that put me?

[Davi]

Carrot said:

I am interested in engines from a mechanical perspective, and I am learning how they work. I like riding motorcycles. Driving cars I find to be fairly mundane. Where does that put me?

on the wrong website?

[Carrot]

Davi said:

Carrot said:

I am interested in engines from a mechanical perspective, and I am learning how they work. I like riding motorcycles. Driving cars I find to be fairly mundane. Where does that put me?

on the wrong website?

Forgive me, I shall rush over to mumsnet asap...

[HellDiver]

Petrolhead_Rich said:

I don't understand why they are doing burn outs and destroying the engine that way?

Because the cash for clunkers leglislation demanded that the engine be made unsalvagable.

[rallycross]

does anyone know if the cars from the uk scrappage scheme are all still queued up on that airfield or have they all been moved yet?

[Lanby]

TonyRPH said:

...These schemes are clearly not thought through very well, however well meaning they are intended to be.

Like most schemes the government introduce really!