Diesel scrappage scheme

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How will this affect Defenders? Some of the worst offenders if you look at just tailpipe emissions (instead of the full picture)
The govt is looking to offer a £2,000 incentive to scrap your Land Rover. Mine's worth a little more than that...
Hopefully Land Rovers or at least some Land Rovers, such as the Utility and hard top, will be exempt.

Do you know what, somebody should start researching petrol engine conversions for the TD5. They might make a fortune.
 
lightning said:
How will this affect Defenders? Some of the worst offenders if you look at just tailpipe emissions (instead of the full picture)
The govt is looking to offer a £2,000 incentive to scrap your Land Rover. Mine's worth a little more than that...
Hopefully Land Rovers or at least some Land Rovers, such as the Utility and hard top, will be exempt.

Do you know what, somebody should start researching petrol engine conversions for the TD5. They might make a fortune.
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Why don't they just make use of Bio Diesel with its mich lower emmisions?
 
Draft of their air quality plan, released today made no mention of a 'scrappage scheme'. Not the first time they've hinted at stuff and then failed to give it substance, the Spring Budget would have been the plaace to at least say they would look into such a scheme.

Since the VW and others were caught out with the real-world emissions limits missing the lab-test results by miles, this will haunt many Governments. But the real polluters are the larger diesels.
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the next big thing with be hydrogen cars and alt-fuelled light goods.
 
I think we've been here before haven't we, they bang on about how bad your diesel car is for a year or two then all of a sudden its, oh we got it all wrong those aren't that bad its this this and this that's bad. I think a lot of this is down to VW getting caught conning everyone.
 
Sometimes Land Rovers slip through the VED Rip Off BastoTax net.
Such as anything made after 2012, any Hardtop, Utility or truck cab. Or anything made before 2001.
Station Wagons made up to about March 2006 get away with not paying the full RobberTax of £510 as well.
l sold our June 2006 CSW because l was fed up with having my backside kicked out every year. Even though my 2005 CSW is only £220 cheaper to tax, l felt l was being stuffed with the 2006 one at £510.
 
Can't believe you sold a 2006 csw as it was £220 more to tax. We used to pay the highest band tax on my wife's car, but I didn't give a toss as fuel costs are so high. £220 is three tanks of fuel in my 110 tdi and it doesn't seem to last very long. If anything forces me to part with my beloved defender it will be fuel costs.
 
Pompey said:
Just heard this is only in consultation, no scheme as such, where will the incoming government get the funds for such a scheme ?
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There's always the windfall they'll receive from the extra £310 (for each of the first 5 years) that they'll receive, for the sale of the bulk of Land Rover's new vehicles, under their new jealousy based taxation system for anything over £40,000; they've got to spend that somewhere.

Also, you can bet that half of that figure will be contributed by the industry them selves, while the sale of each new £20,000 car is going to raise £3,333.33 for them in VAT anyway! They can't lose.
 
It will only be really old worthless cars and vans that are scrapped and not that many because you have to buy a new vehicle to get the benefit. On the other hand the older engines will run fine on straight vegetable oil which is untaxed up to 2500 l/annum. I have read that hydrogen injection vastly reduces diesel emissions, so perhaps they could pay £2000 for retrofitting such equipment. IF they interfere with the taxation on diesel too much the economy will collapse as just about everything uses it.
 
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