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MINI has contradicted the scrappage rule by posting a sales RISE since the end of the scheme. Observations that the scheme only benefited small cars have been disproven by the British-produced car’s sales. That’s despite MINI introducing a special value-priced First model during the campaign, that aligned prices much more closely with mainstream superminis. UK [...]

9 in 10 scrappage sales were additional ones that did not pull forward further sales, reveals a new Glass’s report. The firm has thus called it ‘one of the most successful ever collaborations between car manufacturers and Government’. Doom-sayers said the scheme would make people who were planning to by a car later in 2010 [...]

SCRAPPAGE scheme registrations are almost complete as the SMMT announces its latest update. Total registrations are now 395,500 – tantalisingly close to the 400,000 official total. Cars make up 388,540 of these, with 6959 LCVs also being registered through the scrappage initiative. This follows the ending of the scheme in March. SMMT chief exec Paul [...]

NISSAN is offering a minimum £2k trade-in deal against any new British-built car as scrappage ends. The new trade-in deal sees eligibility extended to cars 7 years or older – that’s motors registered on or before 31 August 2003. As ever, the deal requires cars to have a valid MOT, and also have been owned [...]