Scrap your car incentive at 5 years old

[Seamster15]

Oh dear, oh dear.

Mitsubish Offers Scrappage for 5 - 10 Year Olds: Honest John's Best Deals

 

[Spinal]

Speaking of the incentive... they will pay £2000 on a new car if you scrap an old car, right?

I think I'm going to go buy a new Tata Nano... that's less than £2000ish, right? Then in 5 years I can scrap it and get a new one... free

M.

 

[KillerHERTZ]

Then in 5 years I can scrap it and get a new one... free

M.

Id pay £2000 not to have to drive around in a Nano for 5 years!

 

[Mr Jadefox]

Well I can trump that - I'm offering £2,000 Scrappage* on any car 0-1 year old (£3,000 if it's a Mercedes ).


*I reserve the right not to scrap the car

 

[SilverSaloon]

ffs.

lets roll in all our perfectly good 5 year old cars (we are talking 04 plates here!), probably with low-ish mileage as they will have to be smaller chepaer cars to make the value around or below 2k, scrap them and get the buyer into debt to drive around in a car they cant really afford that is probably just as reliable as the 5 year old car they have just scrapped.

to the government. well done

 

[SilverSaloon]

I think I'm going to go buy a new Tata Nano... that's less than £2000ish, right? Then in 5 years I can scrap it and get a new one... free

ah, but will it last 5 years though

 

[Dryce]

Oh dear, oh dear.

Mitsubish Offers Scrappage for 5 - 10 Year Olds: Honest John's Best Deals

The scrappage deals are quite interesting - if you're a cynic.

The Fiat offers on the Grand Punto don't seem much better after scrappage than I can recall a neighbour being offered before the crunch.

It's somewhat annoying to see a pretty basic 1.2 Clio listed at £9995 (yikes) and then 'discounted' down to £7495 for non-scrappage and £6495 with scrappage. Funny that. Have a colleague who bought a 1.2 Clio 15 months ago at .... around £6500.

There are also some subtle differences in the models being offered for scrappage deals. I saw one where the car doesn't include A/C. But the cars offered new with delivery miles at the same price without scrappage by Motorpoint do have A/C.

 

[Dieselman]

ffs.

to the government. well done

Is Mitsubishi Finance state owned then.?

 

[SilverSaloon]

Is Mitsubishi Finance state owned then.?

well the government introduced the basic scene Mitsubishi has expanded upon havnt they

 

[crockers]

well the government introduced the basic scene Mitsubishi has expanded upon havnt they

Don't think so...

So they are now offering you £2000 to scrap a 5 year old car...yea right...like I couldn't walk in to their showroom with cash and get £2000 discount - so where's the scrapage allowance..nothing more than marketing hype....IMHO of course.

Also my wife's 7 year old car is worth more than £2000.....just...

 

[tony2311]

a 9 year old vectra is worth no more then £1000 but you get a lot more then £2000 off most mitsubushi range anyway when you barter