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The scrappage scheme unfairly benefits the manufacturers of small cars and does not do enough for the premium sector, some car makers have claimed.

In his Budget speach the chancellor announced that when a car more than 10 years old is scrapped the government will offer a £2000 discount on a new car. This discount will be part-funded by the government and the manufacturer of the new car.

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To be honest, if people can afford 'premium' cars without these new incentives, I don't know why the manufacturers are making these claims. They're still going to sell cars - they're hardly going to get customers who are trying to decide between a Land Rover Discovery and a Nissan Pixo! Besides, I thought part of the point was to get 'dirtier' cars off the road as well as boost the industry! It's a good scheme, but is still slightly flawed. I just hope it works. It did in Germany and France...

£2000 isn't enough that is correct, but I'm not sure it should be there at all! A lot off car manufacturers think that it shouldn't be here because they think that the selected car must be 10 years old won't benefit them enough and it should be 5 or 6 years. But I see why it is 10 years the Government don't want to too much money.

This has blatantly been introduced by the govt to appease the car manufactuers calling for it, but then the chancellor has done everything he can to make it awkward and so he doesn't have to pay as much as every other country has done. It doesn't benefit very small efficient cars, or the larger stuff, and manufacturers will simply put prices up by £1000 to compensate for the amount payable.

 But if people can afford premium cars then they wont have a car so old that it would be worth scrapping anyway.

Governments have to draw a line somewhere on how young a car should be. 9 years old is a good age as it is the last year where the majority of manufacturers produced EURO3 emission vehicles. If you are driving a 9 year old 3-Series there's a good chance your going to keep it or p/x it against a new vehicle (What ever that might be) You are very unlikely to scrap it as it as most premium brand vehicles are worth more than £2,000. however if you're driving a 15 year old Ford Fiesta then there's a god chance your car isn't worth £2k. The next point to make is that if you're driving a 15 year old car you probably can't afford a new Premium brand vehicle. That's not meant to be condescending just a high probability. The scrapping scheme should be about keeping the auto industry's wheels turning the age of the entitled vehicles inherently lean toward small budget vehicles. It's not about keeping the German manufacturers in business; which effectively are the ones who are complaining.