On the Radio this morning Renner were offering scrappage cash incentives to get rid of your OLD car for a new low-emissions Euroshitbox.
By 'old' they mean any car registered before 2010
As far as I can tell the scrappage 'incentive' is only the same as the discount you can achieve on any new car without a trade-in so you're basically GIVING your old car away for nothing.
Punters will then go all gooey-eyed and bleat on about "ooh they gave us £4,000.00 for our 2001 Fiesta"
Cars in my care:
2021 Kia Spottage 1.6 Pez Turbo Dual Clutch Gearbox Trickery
2013 Renner Twingo - donkey work
They don't have to sell their 'old' car,
or deal with ....
"...WOT PRICE IS IT M8? WOT CAR IS IT M7?
DO U AV ANY BETTER PICS M8 AS DEM ONES ARE sh*t
IZ NEW CLUCH INCUDED IN SAIL?
WILL U TAK 150 FOR CULLECSHUN 2NYT M9?
Welly
The moderator formally known as Welton...."
2006 Toyota Yaris 1.0 T3
1993 Mazda MX5 Mk1 1.6
2000 "W" HDI 110 Executive Saloon (Recycled).
steve_earwig wrote:More like nothing produced today that's not going to be a shitload of trouble when it ages into our pricerange
T'wife and I were discussing this yesterday, these leccy cars are all good and well for the first couple of years but what aboot once they are 7-10 years old and 80k plus?
Something keeps telling me that we'll all end up on some kind of merry-go-round (let's call it a leasing scheme) where we're encouraged to rent some kind of gubbermint-backed new hybrid shitbox which after 3 years drives itself to the re-purposing centre and because we're not buying pez and dizzle we get heavily road charged per mile using satellites and ANPR, which'll also know what speed we're doing and where.....
Then, far away, in a sleepy Northamptonshire Village, a group of hard line diesel enthusiasts (lets call them the 'resistance') led by a retired electrical engineer with wavy hair have barricaded themselves into a disused outbuilding where 2003 406 diesel HDi's are stored and cataloged meticulously. Visitors can attend, by appointment, and watch HDi's being started without their glow plugs enabled, and there'll be a 'sniffers corner' where guests are allowed to inhale a heady mixture of HDi exhaust fumes after a fresh oil change
Cars in my care:
2021 Kia Spottage 1.6 Pez Turbo Dual Clutch Gearbox Trickery
2013 Renner Twingo - donkey work
My uncle has a country place,
that no one knows about
He says it used to be a farm,
before the Motor Law
On Sundays I elude the Eyes,
And hop the turbine freight
To far outside the Wire,
where my white-haired uncle waits
Jump to the ground
As the turbo slows to cross the borderline
Run like the wind,
As excitement shivers up and down my spine
Down in his barn
My uncle preserved for me, an old machine -
For fifty-odd years
To keep it as old has been his dearest dream
I strip away the old debris, that hides the piece of sh*t
A knackered old Peugeot, from a better, vanished time
Fire up the reluctant engine, responding with black smoke
Tires made of cardboard, I commit my weekly crime ...
Wind... in my hair...
Shifting and drifting...
Mechanical music...
Adrenaline surge!
I love Rush
EDIT: also this song makes me realise that they weren't singing about some dark and dystopian Hollywood feature-film future where people aren't allowed to drive cars ... they're talking about THIS world, where the internal combustion engine is rapidly approaching being outright banned, and soon all cars/trucks/buses/trams/planes/boats/vehicles will be driverless, meaning that nobody will be *allowed* to drive.
2002 (D9) Peugeot 406 Coupe SE, 2.2 litre Petrol. Scarlet Red/Rouge Ecarlate/Rosso Scarlatto. Black Leather interior. SOLD
2008 (E60 LCI) BMW 525i M-Sport, 3.0 litre Petrol. Carbonschwarz Metallic. Black Dakota Leather and Myrtlewood interior.
