Toyota Scrappage - Madness

[SCEtoAUX]

I'm still dilly-dallying with car purchases and as I was passing my local Toyota dealer I popped in for a browse.

Turns out that if I were to buy a Yaris, they'll give me £2,500 for my little Aygo and destroy it via their scrappage scheme. If I trade it in and it stays on the road I'll get about £1,500 at most.

My Aygo has a 1.0 litre petrol engine, combined MPG of around 61, and emissions of 109g/km. The Yaris is a 1.5 litre with combined MPG of 55 and emissions of 116g/km.

Toyota of course market the scrappage scheme as environmentally friendly, but I think the hypocrisy here is astonishing. Scrap old cars with high levels of pollution by all means, but not little petrol ones that have another 50,000 miles of very green motoring left in them.

[dhutch]

Yeah, that's toss.

[Pericoloso]

Let's not open that can of worms but the Government scrappage scheme saw off many reasonable cars with

some life left in them ,condemned to the crusher for "environmental reasons"

[Jag_NE]

Are you sure the OEM schemes definitely scrap it? Wouldn’t be surprised if there is some small print in there that gives them an option to keep it on the road. As you say, it’s a dodgy marketing tool if it means people are scrapping otherwise good cars that are being replaced by more polluting ones!

[syl]

You might get £1500 for the trade-in but you can probably haggle another £500-1000 off the price of the new car that you can't get with the scrappage scheme.. I'll bet the total cost to change isn't very different if you shop around.

[SCEtoAUX]

Jag_NE said:

Are you sure the OEM schemes definitely scrap it? Wouldn’t be surprised if there is some small print in there that gives them an option to keep it on the road. As you say, it’s a dodgy marketing tool if it means people are scrapping otherwise good cars that are being replaced by more polluting ones!

Yep, I asked the sales guy and it certainly has to be scrapped:

https://www.toyota.co.uk/toyota-scrappage-scheme

"Toyota is helping more motorists make the move to cleaner cars through our scrappage scheme. It’s open to vehicles that were registered up to and including 31st March 2011, and held by the current owner for at least six months"

Very poor if you ask me, a complete fabrication of the truth in some cases such as mine, and a pathetic use of environmentalism to justify a scheme that does nothing to help the environment.

It gets worse. I could trade in my little Aygo, have it scrapped and get £4,500 off of a Land Cruiser or £2,250 off of a GT86!:

https://www.westovergroup.co.uk/toyota/new-car-off...

But yes, I will most certainly be pushing for £2,500 for the Aygo on a non-scrappage basis if I go for the Yaris. (Which I might, it's very "white goods" but it has a five year warranty, very decent kit levels, 0% finance and will probably do me for ten years without anything other than consumables.

Edited by SCEtoAUX on Saturday 16th March 23:07

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Pericoloso said:

Let's not open that can of worms but the Government scrappage scheme saw off many reasonable cars with

some life left in them ,condemned to the crusher for "environmental reasons"

I think you mean the government scrappage scheme boosted the economy of South Korea!