Car Scrapage Scheme "Unpopular"

Zagu

davetrousers wrote: »

Errr, reviving a 2 month old thread.

Thing is though car sales have risen see BBC website, and other threads on here discussing the increase.

You want me to make a new thread whenever there's a new development? I thought the idea of a thread was to keep all the discussion in one place.

As Mr.B says, it's on-going.

Graham_Devon

davetrousers wrote: »

Errr, reviving a 2 month old thread.

Thing is though car sales have risen see BBC website, and other threads on here discussing the increase.

Yes, they have risen, from an extremely low point, and the scheme has been running how long now? They fell when the scheme was running too.

Really2

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Yes, they have risen, from an extremely low point, and the scheme has been running how long now? They fell when the scheme was running too.

No they have risen from July last year not last month (for the second time today.)

The first rise based on equiverlent month the previous year for 15 months.

Spinning again graham.

Graham_Devon

Really2 wrote: »

No they have risen from July last year not last month (for the second time today.)

The first rise based on equiverlent month the previous year for 15 months.

Spinning again graham.

Spinning what? At what point did I say anything about which month they were up on?

Really2

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Spinning what? At what point did I say anything about which month they were up on?

So was July last year to quote you "an extremely low point?

kriss_boy

Depends entirely on the individuals circumstances but I think the scrappage scheme has a lot to offer.

My parents bought a nissan micra for £5995 when they traded in their old 11 year old one. Pretty good price for a very reliable, fuel efficient car. £30 tax and cheap insurance.

Theyll keep it for another 10 years.

Really2

kriss_boy wrote: »

Depends entirely on the individuals circumstances but I think the scrappage scheme has a lot to offer.

My parents bought a nissan micra for £5995 when they traded in their old 11 year old one. Pretty good price for a very reliable, fuel efficient car. £30 tax and cheap insurance.

Theyll keep it for another 10 years.

Did they pat cash, dealer finance or personal loan. Just asking because their as been a debate on how many use finance.

michaels

I was looking for a car for my parents - list price was 18k, special edition = same model but lower price was 15.5, with scrappage 13.5. Broker price for brand new unregistered was 12.5 no trade in or nuffink...simples

Anyone who thinks they are getting 2k off is just plain deluded - 1k is coming from the dealer so would have been available anyway for haggling so max off is 1k and it seems taking this 1k reduces the cahnce of getting the dealer to really haggle so I nice scam to take in the gullible but no real savings to be had.

Really2

michaels wrote: »

I was looking for a car for my parents - list price was 18k, special edition = same model but lower price was 15.5, with scrappage 13.5. Broker price for brand new unregistered was 12.5 no trade in or nuffink...simples

Anyone who thinks they are getting 2k off is just plain deluded - 1k is coming from the dealer so would have been available anyway for haggling so max off is 1k and it seems taking this 1k reduces the cahnce of getting the dealer to really haggle so I nice scam to take in the gullible but no real savings to be had.

well the idea is to buy smaller cars eg.

£8K car -£2k is 25% off.

you kind of missed what the idea was, it was so people swaped for smaller more econmical cars.

jansus

sabretoothtigger wrote: »

Kia picanto is available for 4195 but unless its a tiny car it probably wont make sense.
I thought they'd offer 5 year 0% APR as well and that'd be worth buying new but I've not seen those deals

Mercedes offers 8k off list price or if you went with this scheme and scrap a car you'd get 2k off, hrm

kia picanto is 4495 went up 300 pounds in may