When is it time to sell a car?

AdrianHi

Scrappage scheme was job protection and that's it.
The CO2 emmissions production vs. use is an impossible one to really measure. The few car manufacturers that have come up with a figure show the cars use emmitting in the region of twice as much CO2 as it's production. But they were only able to measure the CO2 foot print of their part of the operation. A full analysis would have to go right back to mining the raw materials and that analysis is too complex to be done without years of research that would be pointless by the time it came out because you would have moved on to produce the next car model by then.
It took a 68 page document and a small team a year to work it out disposable vs. washable nappies (about the same BTW).

Scrapping a 10 year old car that only has on average say 25% of it's life left means it would not be around long enough anyway to polute enough to make it worth scraping early.

waynedance

keep it, got a Mondeo W reg myself, had it nearly 8 years done 104k and is near mint condition.

Keep the car as long as you like it and it runs fine.

ps are you a member on fordmondeo.org?

goldspanners

catflea wrote: »

Makes a mockery of the "green" aspect of scrappage.

when scrappage was introduced there was never any green aspect of it from the government. its sole purpose was to kick start the economy.