[Mgs] UK scrappage scheme

Paul Hunt paul.hunt1 at blueyonder.co.uk
Thu Apr 23 03:34:51 MDT 2009


Someone as impecunious as you say is hardly going to be able to buy a new MX5,
let alone a Discovery.  Of course it will distort the market, but you aren't
going to get the Government to say "that's a classic, we aren't going to let
you part exchange that"!  For a start what defines a classic?

Never mind that a Disco produces more pollution on the road than a Moggie
Minor (only CO2, not CO or hydrocarbons), 60% of a cars lifetime pollution is
produced in it manufacture, and for battery hybrids it's far worse.  You would
do far more for the planet buying a 3 or 4 year-old car than a new one of any
type.

PaulH.

----- Original Message -----


  ...  He wants/needs to sell it - there's a kid on the way, he's getting too
old for it, he's fed up with the maintenance and repair and wants to get an
MX5 instead ...


More information about the Mgs mailing list