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[Plomien]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/main.jhtml?xml=/motoring/2008/08/04/mngasguzzlers104.xml
the Government are looking to give you £1000 if you scrap your large gas guzzler,
would you do it?

[bob.dent]

Not a chance!!...........at least not for a few years anyway.

[PaulW]

No, but it makes buying a banger for a few hundred tempting just to scrap it and cash in on the extra...

[Mr Skrunts]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/main.jhtml?xml=/motoring/2008/08/04/mngasguzzlers104.xml
the Government are looking to give you £1000 if you scrap your large gas guzzler,
would you do it?

Considerering the resale Value of my GLS I might consider it.

[shanjon]

not a chance,

[JamesV6CDX]

Go out and buy a few rotton rangie's and cash 'em in

[Jimbob]

Well that IS more than some peoples cars are 'worth' (depending on your point of view)

So will probably be enough to tempt a lot of people.

[Mr Skrunts]

It would have to be monitored if they did.

people would just be going out and buying cheap gas guzzlers to reap the benefits.

[mantahatch]

Would not scrap my Omega for £2k as old as it is, it does 4000 miles a year, the emissions from building a new car would be far greater.
So I am being really enviromentally friendly and keeping my car as long as possible, it is the green thing to do.

Mike

Oh yes, how are they going to fund this one then ?

[Jimbob]

It would have to be monitored if they did.

people would just be going out and buying cheap gas guzzlers to reap the benefits.

The market would soon adapt to that.

[Jay w]

no I think it is a bad idea, the government want to get us out of these gas guzzlers but they want us to buy new cars.
How do they propose we do that? People don't want to borow money currently because maybe they can't afford to, so they stick with what they have

[cem_devecioglu]

no chance  

I 've spent totally 15-17 x times of this money..

[Kevin Wood]

 

When will this lunacy stop?

Still, ought to reverse the decline in 2nd hand prices a little perhaps?

Problem is, no-one will break cars for spares any more because you can bet there'll be a catch that says you can't just take them off the road to support other "gas guzzlers" but you have to crush them complete.

Lack of 2nd hand spares will be the death of the gas guzzler, not dedicated enthusiasts chopping them in for a bit of beer money.

I wonder if you have to buy a Pious or something to replace it - or whether you can just buy another gas guzzler to cash in next week?  

This could be the real test of the government's motives. My prediction is that they won't like the idea of losing all that road tax and petrol revenue and we'll hear no more about it.

Kevin

[ians]

they haven't a clue (not a rather clue... in the words of one gas guzzler driver..)

..we'll probably get the subsidised bicycle when it comes to it.

don't forget that even if your car is nominally worth less than £1000, you are still going to have to buy something to replace it with.  

[Danny]

if this goes ahead, i'm gonna start buying gas guzzler sheds at £200 each, every week, and scrap them all!