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CAR Dealer Magazine has been sworn to secrecy. And, when we’re given embargoes, we respect ‘em.
Man, it’s frustrating sometimes, though!
I’ve just got back from Central London, where I’ve been listening to a full-on briefing all about the exit phase of the scrappage scheme. Held by BIS top names, it was literally an exclusive: we [...]

SCRAPPAGE has been a great success in broadening car dealer opportunities says Peugeot MD Jon Goodman.
However, he says that when it comes to an end, Peugeot will look to other creative plans to incentivise cars, rather than launch a self-financed copycat scheme.
‘The scheme has brought people into car showrooms who would not normally be buying [...]

CAR Dealer Magazine has sourced official information on how the final stages of scrappage will operate.
Car makers have already agreed they will take part in a 2-phase quota system, to fairly allocate remaining subsidies.
Today, BIS has finally revealed the logistics of how this will all work. It points out, too, that it’s a decision reached [...]

RENAULT reckons the end of scrappage will present a residual effect offering a small market opportunity.

The firm’s commercial operations director, Len Curran, has told Car Dealer Magazine he expects scrappage-type deals to continue for the next few months.
They will be, Curran explained, from the brands most active in scrappage. He named Korean brands, Nissan, Toyota [...]

SCRAPPAGE type schemes will continue even as the official Government scheme draws to a close predicts one expert.

Kevin Gaskell, chairman of motoring.co.uk, says he envisages ‘similar of forms of support will continue, funded by the manufacturers’.
This will be led by fears that the market could suffer a big decline when the scrappage scheme ends. In [...]

SCRAPPAGE has helped Hyundai to such big UK gains that the maker intends to continue success.
The firm today thus launches TWO post-scrappage schemes – Trade & Upgrade and Happy Returns.
Trade & Upgrade is a generous scrappage-type scheme, that will give owners of cars aged between 7 and 10 years old the same £2000 discount gained [...]

MINISTERS are to allocate quotas to car makers for the final funds from the scrappage cash pot.

Officials say rebates for less than 82,000 cars remains as the scheme enters its final weeks.
The rationing will be based on brand popularity, said business secretary Lord Mandelson. This, he said, will ensure the scheme runs down smoothly.
‘With limited [...]

FORD Fiesta buyers have voted the supermini best car of 2009 by buying it in greater numbers than any other new car.
SMMT figures show the Fiesta is way ahead of the rest, with 117,296 sales.
Bosses at Ford are celebrating further too, as the Focus came out in 2nd place overall in the new car [...]

SCRAPPAGE registrations have smashed the quarter-million mark after snaring a fifth of November sales.
21.6 percent of motors registered in November were under the scrappage scheme.
This means the impact of it remains huge, said SMMT chief Paul Everitt. ‘Scrappage continues to have a positive impact on vehicle registrations, contributing to the 57.6 percent increase in November’s [...]

FORD once again topped the November new car sales chart with the Fiesta easily beating the next-best.
Which, as luck would have it, was also a Ford – the Focus!
The November performance marks the 9th month in 2009 that the Fiesta has topped the charts. Total Fiesta sales stand at 109,420. Again, the Focus is the [...]