£2000 - £2500 for 9 Year old Cars

[tr7jim]

Listen on the TV News its looks like they are going to introduce at the next budget the scheme to pay out around £2000 - £2500 for your 9 year =old car. (Simalar to the German scheme)

What will this do to the good old TR7 for example.

Will people thinking of getting a new car, then send the TR7 to the scrap yard or maybe people will buy cheap and then go for the offer.

What do you all think

Jim Johnson
Worried for the TR7 future

[tr7inc]

surely even in this day in age, they woul over look a classic car in that field wouldnt they??



Steve
1979 Pre Production Prototype Inca Yellow DHC

[nervousnewowner]

its a very worrying proposal, they think it will encourage people to buy new cars, load of crap, but means my 51 plate mondeo eligeble for it next year, bet a lot of project cars not just trs but the whole classic scene could end up at the crusher with this very worrying time....

[tr7inc]

Dave i couldnt agree more, whatever next eh!



Steve
1979 Pre Production Prototype Inca Yellow DHC

[gaz]

that would be me buggered if they made it compulsory my newest motor is a 95 "M" reg[:D]

It rides again.....

[Underdog]

Heard a rumor over here that some idiot, California legislator was advocating scrapping anything older than 04 !!! I have an 05 Dodge pickup that isn't paid for yet! Stimulate sales they say...most around here, myself included, struggle to keep what we have...let alone buy a new one.

72 MGB BRG
80 TR8 Persian Aqua
If women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.

[tr7inc]

Know what you mean Gaz, my newest car is 1998.



Steve
1979 Pre Production Prototype Inca Yellow DHC

[tr7jim]

One thing we can gurantee is it nothing to do with the green issues but selling New Motors.

The thing I cant understand is these people crushing in their cars for £2500, still have to find a £10k figure or there abouts.

Jim Johnson

[macmattom]

<font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="3"><font color="blue">I have heard something on this, and not trying to add any more rumours heard that the trade-in was only an option if you were going to buy a new or nearly new car so wasn't compulsory. The problem then, though, would be if some mercenary 4r5e just bought old projects, traded them in for a nearly new and sold that one on for a profit.

I'd really need to see how they intend to make this one work before I started to worry, but nothing this government does to stop motorists enjoying themselves would surprise me. It would just be another half-baked, ill-conceived, ill-thought out knee-jerk anti-motoring policy to grab some headline. I'm off my soap-box now, sorry for that rant. (</font id="blue"></font id="size3"></font id="Comic Sans MS">

The pheonix rises from the ashes - just give it time!http://s733.photobucket.com/albums/ww338/macmattom/

[gaz]

well you wouldn't catch me cashing me motorhome thats the 95 "M" worth a little more than £2500

It rides again.....

[marknotgeorge]

I seem to recall reading somewhere that the trade-in has to have been owned for at least 12 months. That would cut out those doing it for profit.

Mark, Derby, UK.
'80 DHC Sprint - '95 Vauxhall Astra - '00 Vauxhall Zafira
http://www.marknotgeorge.co.uk

[jeffremj]

Whilst I can understand the French and the Germans introducing this incentive to buy new cars, I can't see it as a good idea for the UK as most of the cars we buy are made overseas and all the profits from the screwdriver operations (Honda at Swindon etc.) disappear that way as well.

[Rblackadar]

Here in the US.....I don't think it would ever happen. I'm not too worried about something like that. I think it would hurt business more than it would do good. Most newer cars are usually trouble free for the first few years of ownership, and if you have to turn it over every 5-6 years.....It would put alot of repair facilities and mechanics out of work....makes no sense whatsoever.

[Alec Pringle]

The most constructive things we could do are to contact our own MPs explaining the salient facts appertaining to classic cars, and to contact the FBHVC asking them to take up cudgels on our behalf - it's what they're there for.

Sadly, there are two things we are unlikely ever to hear from the unmitigated bunch of pillocks presently masquerading as a government, or from their uncivil serpents - common sense and joined up thinking. Mind you, we lack both as a nation - after all, we elected the useless sods.

Cheers,

Alec

[tr7inc]

Alec, i couldnt have put that better myself, the sad truth about the past & previous governments in this , is that when they get an idea that can get more oney out of the tax payers they usually impliment it, if not directly in this way but i bet they will find some way of doing it, Carbon Footprint an all that!!



Steve
1979 Pre Production Prototype Inca Yellow DHC