Fifth Gear: Scrappage Scheme Discount 

Gotta love early 2000s haircuts. Barber: "What will it be?" "Fuck me up, fam"

The scrappage scheme was a bad idea, too many old cars from the 1980s and 1990s went you scrapheap that had virtually nothing wrong with them. I'd choose the original Ford Ka over a new Hyundai i10 anyday.

Old cars are actually better for the environment than new cars. Think of the resources new cars need to be manufactured. If you drive around with your car for 20 years it's A LOT more healthier than if you buy a new car every 5 years. Emissions are just a very small part to consider if you want to look out for those things.

Now majority of the cars in the scrappage scheme are worth more than the discount you could get. Also you'd be lucky to get a brand new car for less than 10k these days, let alone less than 5k back then

Older cars from the 80s and 90s are better than modern car

Still rolling round in my 1987 Granada Scorpio 2.9 V6.

Funny mustache man in Germany would be proud, efficiently killing of so many good and now sought after cars that still remain favorites among enthusiasts to this day

really bad for classic cars, people in charge should know the difference instead the are killing irreplaceable machines...

Sad to see that burgandy P plate 323F being scrapped. I had one of those back in the day. Great little cars.

My old man bought brand new a T reg Fiesta Zetec. 10 years later after taking great care of the car and with only 60k on the clock he got rid of it through the scrappage scheme. Was too good a deal when he wanted a new car.

Perfectly fine Ford Escort... or Hyundai i10... hmmmm....

Old cars are better full stop

all of this is needlessley destructive

So sad to see all those old N or S reg cars be scrapped when many parts are easily salvageable. Quite eerie to see a plate V393 0:35 when my neighbours E class is V393 FE*, also quite sad to see that 626 with the old Mazda badge scapped.

Surely this is getting more young people into taking out finances on new cars. Which is really fucking bad. I drive a £300 reliable banger on 142,000 miles. Because i dont want a finance i cannot afford.instead i want to buy a house.not live in my car

He is now presenter of Car SOS. What a irony.

At first, I'm against the car scrappage scheme because old working cars would be gone to waste. I like to keep my car going even when it's 12 years old and still driveable. But lately I'm starting to change my attitude. In Australia, I see many people advertising their cheap cars without a roadworthy certificate and without registration. And worse still, they want their cars gone in an instant. I wish I can tell them that's impossible and it's stupid. If they're going to get a new car, they shall just trade in their clunker to have it scrapped. End of story. Thank you.

So you guys are having our equivalent of Cash for Clunkers. Just a warning, expect the used car prices to shoot up in price with many models becoming rare. Here stateside the 96-03 Ford Explorer, more specifically the V8 AWD Eddie Bauer edition, is a really rare find these days, since they were worthless in '09 when gas prices shot up. A lot of other nice cars got destroyed, like Lincoln Town cars even.

Fucking scrappage scheme. Perfectly good serviceable cars went to the crusher because of that and some of great historic importance. Now classic car prices are shooting through the roof even for the mundane practical stuff!

Scary. Most of the cars in that scrap yard 10 years ago, were already newer than my daily driver. But then a 1994 Toyota Celica is just that little bit special. (Oh and my old car is a 1972 Hillman Avenger).

How can you get a better discount than that on a car as inexpensive as the i10? There's literally very little money left for the seller to earn at all...

Germany was sending clunkers to Eastern Europe.

I watched a video about the number of classic and collectable cars that went to the crusher under this stupid scheme.

how many 4age powered cars have fallen to this :(

People are slowly starting to realise anything that the government supports and encourages you to do is 100% for their benefit and never for your benefit.. To them you are nothing more than a revenue generator your N.I. number and birth certificate means they own you.

Oh no not the beetle

Idk about u but I hate the scrapping cars it’s sad to see poor cars go to the crusher If u love ur car don’t scrap it if it’s not roadworthy replace part and sell it for a higher price

Scrappage scheme is one of the worst ideas ever

BRILLIANT. Scrap perfectly working cars ( in many cases ) that people DON'T OWE MONEY ON. Get them into buying a new car and get in debt. WoW!! That will jumpstart the economy. Getting people into debt. Typical keynsian non-sense. And how much "pollution" was created with all the scrapping process and the building a new car process? How can anyone fall for this shit?

It was implemented in similar way here in Serbia with new Fiat cars built in old Zastava plant. Thanks but no, thanks, keeping my Mercedes W123 instead.

Rather keep an old Toyota than have a cheap as possible made Hyundai.

How is,it "environmentally friendly" to just crush old cars? Surely it's better to resell the parts? As we all know, any car that's been on the road for 10 years has paid its debt environmentally to society, so the longer we keep old cars on the road, the better it is.

THESE ARE CLASSICS FULL STOP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think the scrappage scheme is now something like six grand.

Those original Ford Ka's have aged so nicely..... when you look at that shitty hyundai i10 the KA is much more stylish. Modern cars look like shit with no individuality.

When the retro car you put in the first scrappage scheme is now worth as much or more than the car you chopped it in for. Wa wa wahhhhhhh

It wouldn't be Tim if he didn't he tried a bit of arm twisting.

Or... the dealer raises the asking price with 5 grand and then telling you you get 5 grand off.. so you still pay the full price for the car when you think you got a good deal...

I got a Mazda6 2004 for 2000, 5 years later went to Mazda and sold it for 2500 under that scheme

Is thats the man you drove disco3

Its time to talk about DOGGERS imean BANGERS

Omg is he from car sos? Tim X fuzz!

It didn't work it just made popular cheep and perfectly good cars rear When was the last time you saw a cavilear or a old mondao When I was a kid in the 2000s 10-20 year old cars were quite common thay were all running perfectly fine and built to last forever new cars aren't built to last 5 years before they fall apart.

I'm surprised there aren't companies that buy in used cars then rip out the engine and fuel tank and convert them to battery electric then sell on part ex, or simply just offer the conversion for a price. Then again people love to waste resources and buy brand new crap.

Huyndai i10 12500€ in my cou.try lol

Wow how the world has changed try and get a tenner off a car

No one do this scrappage scheme in 2023 it's a scam

Well my old girl is a 1993 reg mitsubishi pajero 2.8 diesel auto shorty, and they will have to prize it from my dead white hands, future classic cars are being destroyed daily so they can shove their scrapage scheme where the sun don't shine.

I don't get how they can sell on the engines that are ripped out, surely it would damage vital parts just using one of those mechanical grabbers?

Can you believe some people scrapped their Lancia Deltas and Audi Quattros for a Ford Ka?

This is an old programme. This is when the cars being scrapped we’re crap old cars not classic cars

How old is this programme 10 yrs?

Scrappage scheme......we will not see the likes of this again !

Depressing af

waste of tax payers money, for crap electric vehicles that take more co to produce the batteries then running normal vehicles. Waste of lithium and cobalt and damages the environment mining for the metals damaged trees plants and left with polluted soils. Also they are not considering the cancer risk of electric vehicles. The amount of lead and other metals going into the soils when the batteries need recycling.

It was just a wasteful, terrible idea. Putting many people out of being able to afford a car, ones that worked just fine & would have been far better for the environment than all those newer things, certainly EV's nowdays. Not everyone could afford a new car, along with it being not that very environmentally friendly with all the materials needed to keep making new ones, keeping the older ones going is much better in the long run than having some new thing, and these days, better than some unessicary technology laden, expensive, samey (most of the time being a dullard crossover, or SUV). I wouldn't bother with some new fandangle thing, will stay with my cars which are 25 & 15 years old respectively. This is an older episode yes, but the scrappage scheme was a stupid, wasteful thing. The one there in the UK & the one that was in the US. Just silly, wasteful, utterly silly schemes they were. Only time a car should be scrapped is if it is beyond repair, and wouldn't be feasible & safe to put on the roads. With that, if they were safe enough to do so, should take them banger racing instead, and give them a good send-off.

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