Scrap car cash back

[davidimurray]

Well it looks like it's here -

"From next month until March 2010 motorists to get £2,000 discount on new cars if they trade in cars older than 10 years"

[flyerncle]

Get a grip you lot, the R Soles that govern this country will give you nothing and take twice as much back. Stop smoking,loss of revenue. Drink less,more loss.All the people stoping smoking has not helped the NHS in any shape or form, and you and me ie Joe Public foot the bill for there cockups and fighting other peoples wars in the name of oil(what happened to North Sea oil and gas).

And before one of you who is good at maths say's it I know the square root of FA is Sweet FA.

[londonsean69]

Am I right in thinking that certain cars pay no, or an extremely small amount, of road tax, because they are soo fuel efficient.

Imagine we all swapped to them, where would the money for maintaining the roads come from??

Sean

[davidimurray]

Don't laugh - my daily drive is a 1.4 HDI Citroen C3 (I can hear you laughing) which I picked up cheap about 5 years ago. Regularly does 60-80mpg and road tax is £35 a year.Even though I keep thinking about changing it I can't bring myself too it as it is so cheap to run! My motorbike on the other hand costs £66 a year to tax!

[Jezzer99]

So if I read it right, £1000 comes from the government and £1000 is expected to come from the car manufacturer??? Having recently bought a new car and got an amazing discount, I'd be kind of surprised if you can get the £1000 discount from the manufacturer without trading anything in

Smoke and mirrors me thinks...

[HandyAndy]

DavidiMurray you have a PM

cheers
andy

[flyerncle]

I have just read comment from the head of the AA on the scrappage allowance and the increase in fuel tax is what we will all pay for the priviledge.

What a whole load of 5h1t !

Originally Posted by londonsean69

Am I right in thinking that certain cars pay no, or an extremely small amount, of road tax, because they are soo fuel efficient.

Imagine we all swapped to them, where would the money for maintaining the roads come from??

Sean

UMMMMM.....