The wild food / living as cheaply as possible / occasional car blog
Saturday, 13 June 2009
The car scrappage scheme
What's the point of this? I can't believe it is ever 'greener' to scrap an older car in favour of a new one, given the carbon footprint of modern automated manufacturing methods.
Especially if classics like this (sadly not mine) are scrapped in favour of a Kia Picanto:
However I have heard of classic Moggys / Triumphs etc which would otherwise make interesting low-cost restoration projects being sacrificed to this madness.
I think it's more designed to get those sh1tbox escorts, talbots and peugot 309's off the road, rather than the classic pr0n to which you refer!
ReplyDeleteIndeed.
ReplyDeleteHowever I have heard of classic Moggys / Triumphs etc which would otherwise make interesting low-cost restoration projects being sacrificed to this madness.
Yup, in agreement with top comment as by coincidence a neighbour 'scrapped' an old Mk IV escort for a Kia... Ceed...? Her first ever new car.
ReplyDeleteThink you'd have to be insane to scrap any potential classic - TRs etc included - without first evaluating their classic car value...