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The thin end of the wedge

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davidlandy:
they should make company car tax cheaper - more drivers at our place are opting for cash instead and buying older cars.

TDi90:
well i dont know bout you lot but it would take a lot more then 2K for me to scrap my beloved landy.
personally, im so atached at the moment, shes a money cant buy car for me...

crazymac:

--- Quote from: TDi90 on April 13, 2009, 19:37:07 ---well i dont know bout you lot but it would take a lot more then 2K for me to scrap my beloved landy.
personally, im so atached at the moment, shes a money cant buy car for me...
--- End quote ---

Its a no Brainer isn't it?

Discovery worth £1200 realistically (if i'm lucky!)  but no finance on it and able to work on it myself.

Or £2k for it to go to the scrap yard and a loan for £30K so I can replace it with another Discovery that I would pay twice as much road tax, higher insurance and can't service it my self!!

They can Foxtrot Oscar!!

lambert:
so, given my need of a heavy tow car for farming and other duties are the gov going to give me the other 25odd grand i would need to buy a nice new discovery? cos sure as hell the bank didn't want to know when i asked them.

making people give up older cars to help prop up the car makers will not work, the stimulus has to come from the public having affordable credit available to them. it is part and parcel of capitalism.

V8MoneyPit:
As already suggested, it's not in the governments interests to encourage people to keep consumer goods longer rather than replacing them frequently. Not just cars, but televisions, washing machines, etc. If they tell us all to keep stuff longer they get less tax. Simples, at the Meerkat says.

We all know it is stupid. I would wager most people in government know it, but they don't want to admit it publically.

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