Car scrappage - £2,000.

[gmc]

Originally Posted by oscar

I bought a new car today They are doing a service and i pick it up friday. British of course !!!

Hate to tell you this but it's assembled in either spain or germany. If you want a mass market car actually made in the UK go for a nissan or a toyota or peugeot.

[oscar]

Originally Posted by gmc

Hate to tell you this but it's assembled in either spain or germany. If you want a mass market car actually made in the UK go for a nissan or a toyota or peugeot.

True but i've had Nissan's, Toyota's and Peugeot's in the past and getting parts is like tring to find a wooly mammoth.
Anyway i had to have this one..... the last two letters of the reg are 'JU'

[qsducks]

Originally Posted by oscar

True but i've had Nissan's, Toyota's and Peugeot's in the past and getting parts is like tring to find a wooly mammoth.
Anyway i had to have this one..... the last two letters of the reg are 'JU'

Get a magnet with your name on the back and slap it on the back of your new car. I've got 3 on mine.

[oscar]

Originally Posted by qsducks

Get a magnet with your name on the back and slap it on the back of your new car. I've got 3 on mine.

I just rang the dealer. It's all done and ready for me to pick up tomorrow. Can't wait. Mr O bought my last car and the reg number was GAY..... could have killed him.

[qsducks]

Originally Posted by oscar

I just rang the dealer. It's all done and ready for me to pick up tomorrow. Can't wait. Mr O bought my last car and the reg number was GAY..... could have killed him.

...we used to have a minivan and the license plate on the back...the first 3 letters were EWY.....my first truck was ACE

[Nomad]

Originally Posted by oscar

I bought a new car today They are doing a service and i pick it up friday. British of course !!!

Where is Peter Lake ?
Did you sell him to buy a car ?
You can tell me its ok.

[oscar]

Originally Posted by Nomad

Where is Peter Lake ?
Did you sell him to buy a car ?
You can tell me its ok.

Peter Lake is in hospital for a few days and they are doing devious scientific experiments on him. They are quite baffled by him at the moment and have had to sedate him heavilly after him trying to escape.

Now, how do i sell a car with a reg plate that says 'GAY'?

[oscar]

Originally Posted by Bill Sikes

£2,000 "gift" to scrap your 10-year-old car and buy another, under the guise of "Environmentalism".

What piffle.

When i went to get my new car yesterday, i did have a long chat with them about the effect this scrap scheme will have on them. Although my father after the war was a 'Rover' dealer all his life, i couldn't understand what they were talking about to be honest but they said it was a load of rubbish. Something about if these cars are scrapped, then people who look for cars at the very bottom end due to lack of money will not have any to buy and there-fore hang on to their older cars longer. Does that make sense? Only my eyes glaze over in boredom at car speak once we've got past the quality of the cd player and the colour.

[gmc]

Originally Posted by oscar

When i went to get my new car yesterday, i did have a long chat with them about the effect this scrap scheme will have on them. Although my father after the war was a 'Rover' dealer all his life, i couldn't understand what they were talking about to be honest but they said it was a load of rubbish. Something about if these cars are scrapped, then people who look for cars at the very bottom end due to lack of money will not have any to buy and there-fore hang on to their older cars longer. Does that make sense? Only my eyes glaze over in boredom at car speak once we've got past the quality of the cd player and the colour.

It does make sense. There are a lot of cars 10 years old or more tht are perfectly OK as runabouts My car is eight years old with 125,000 on it. As a trade in it's worth less than £2,000 so I'm as well to hang on to it now till it's ten years old. Why buy a new car when I don't have to? Then only time I've bought a new car (well p[re-registered anyway) was to get my hands on a low mileage diesel

The people most affected by the rise in car tax etc are those who buy bigger older cars because they have families and need the space-all those old MPV's you see around if you have a company car and lots of money it's not going to stop you buying gas guzzlers. He would have been better to put extra tax on gas guzzling NEW cars rather than hit people with older cars bought because they can't afford a new one and before they knew the road tax was going to go up. Higher road tax, higher fuel the ones he's pricing off the road are ordinary people with ordinary incomes-meanwhile public transport is crap so you have to have a car to get to work.

[OpenMind]

Originally Posted by oscar

When i went to get my new car yesterday, i did have a long chat with them about the effect this scrap scheme will have on them. Although my father after the war was a 'Rover' dealer all his life, i couldn't understand what they were talking about to be honest but they said it was a load of rubbish. Something about if these cars are scrapped, then people who look for cars at the very bottom end due to lack of money will not have any to buy and there-fore hang on to their older cars longer. Does that make sense? Only my eyes glaze over in boredom at car speak once we've got past the quality of the cd player and the colour.

Just to add to the bollocks of it all, the tax on older air-choking, smog-creating cars is cheaper than on new 'breathe through the nose smog free' cars. It makes you wonder why our leaders aren't required to have a leadership qualification.
Where is Spot?