How is this eco friendly

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-SCRAPPED.html

 

few cars in there id like to have

 

Did pumas come in imperial blue?? I hope so cause I'd scrap myself if that's a racing puma in the middle of that

 

Scrap!? I'd take a few of those as daily drives!

 

there's a lovely 7 seater in there i could really do with. that's just wrong

 

Fackin hell, most of the cars shown in that bottom picture are better than my car. Surely a lot of those cars didn't need to be traded in under the scrappage scheme as they look as if they would have been worth a reasonable amount - there's even a fairly new looking A class Merc in there.
When these cars are sent to the "licensed scrappage yards" who gets the money from the parts sold, the government or the scrap yard? Also what happens to the fuel that is recovered from their tanks?

 

A Farse to keep the car industry afloat

 

I saw that to! They came in Melina blue which is very close to imperial blue. Looks like a standard puma propellor alloy on it too

 

Thought that, was lookin at the arches but seem to slim for the FRP.

Some of them cars can be 1st car driver cars. See the Goverment for boosting sales but it kills others means aswell.

Vectra Gsi was scrapped with 90k on the clock. The VVOC were livid as it still was taxed and mot'd and mint inside and out.

 

wot a load of rubbish, no wonder numbers are dwindling for secondhand cars- i can't beleive that some people traded a few of them in for less than 2k!
If the government took there heads out of eachothers a$$es they'd see that upping our import rates encouraging cash struck people to borrow more really hasn't helped the country much!

 

what a fuckin waste

 

they look better than cars ive ever had

 

They are all better than my daily runners are LOL

Theres a little more to it than that... like the THOUSANDS of jobs its kept.

 

if its an abandoned airstrip anyone fancy a trip to bedfodshire lol

 

If it wasn't for the scrappage scheme my old fella and 1300 other people would be out of work in my town

Fail to see how a load of old shit boxes sitting waiting to be scrapped can class the scheme as a failure!

 

That is all...

 

Why don't the government now sell those cars off for cheap and make some money.

 

I dont think anyone is saying it was a failure more that its stupid that these perfectly good working cars HAVE to be scrapped. There is a mint looking pickup, a disco and that gold audi, while a minging colour im sure is worth more than 2k.

Why they dont sell each one for Ł500 or something, even if they took the economic ones and people who had actual shitters could trade up. That would make alot more sense IMO

 

what a shame..some decent motors there.

 

and the jobs created for the mechanics who have to strip them/crush them etc

 

Surely that defeats the object?

 

i remember years ago going to a dvla auction i wonder whether they still do that

 

The govenment going back on their word, what a shocker!

 

I bet theres a nice engine that would do for my mk2 in all that

 

id go for the crack would need a bloody big van buy the time id finished

 

Looks to be a fair few decentish motors in there!

Then again, i bet any money you could go onto autotrader and find a decent example of each of the cars in the pic anyway. So although they might seem wasted, its not as if they are needed by anyone.

 

need postcode of that place, i need to go there!!!

imagine have the cat of most of them, $$$$$$$$

 

Jesus Christ, such a shame.

Merc e class, newish Audi A6, discovery 300 series, Freelander, Saab 93 cabby......maybe Gordon Brown should open an Ebay account

 

just off the a6 north of bedford

by the bedford autodrome MK44 2YP‎

 

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&so...h&z=15&iwloc=A

 

Should set up a swap shop, wheres if you have a shitter car than the scrapped ones, you can trade up in exchange for yours, i'd be 1st in the Q

 

It's on Google Maps too. Shame to see it piled up & left to rust away until it gets scrapped!

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&so...38495&t=h&z=15

 

Absolutely disgraceful that is.

 

What you can see on Google maps is most likely new cars being stored there. I used to service a site on Thurleigh and most of the time its the big manufacturers using it as a storage facility for new and unsold vehicles. They're parked up too neatly in the bays for them to be scrappers

 

summits not right there, theres a merc ML in the 2nd pic. anyone seen a merc ML worth less than 2k? and theres a few vehicles defo newer than 2000 amoungst that lot!!

 

I was reading about this on another forum. Heres one of the comments.

 

Yeah, in dog eating countries that have profited most from the UK scrappage scheme by selling Kias, Hyundais and general shite like that that will be knackered in 5 years time and will be nothing better than landfill for this country to deal with.

The UK should have followed Germany's scrappage scheme, by only including cars that were built in the UK. This would have given our economy a massive boost.

 

Just see the ML!

There is a MGF, 5 series BMW, Saab 9-5 cab, Fiat coupe turbo, Mr2 and a old school E28 5 series BMW!

I assume a few of those cars had problems but lots of people just cant be bothered to sell their old car I suspect.

 

anyone spot the brown car top right looks like a saff ghia

 

Brownish saloon car very top right is a E28 BMW 5 series IMO.