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MAZDA UK MD Jeremy Thomson has praised the official Exit Strategy for handling the end of the scrappage scheme.
He said it will guarantee the Japanese brand will get sufficient and fair funding from what’s left of the scrappage pot.
What’s more, the Japanese brand has also been planning for the end of scrappage, and won’t be [...]

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 [...]

KIA managing director Michael Cole has said scrappage funds for dealers will have to be rationed.
With the last portion of funds due to be divvied up between manufacturers in the dying days of the scheme, carmakers’ next hurdle is to work out how to divide those funds up between their network.
Cole said: ‘It is clear [...]

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 [...]

OUCH. Why is my body telling me it’s been in a major car accident? Oh… that’ll be because it has.
Last night was my debut as a banger racer in a Hyundai i10 and things went, er, not so well. To say I was nervous in the lead up to the race would be a monumental [...]

BUSINESS minister Ian Lucas MP has acknowledged car industry success with the latest UK production boost.

‘The automotive industry has had a difficult year, but industry and Government have taken action to help manage the challenges.’

The results of this can be seen in December’s rise in UK car production, offsetting a [...]

YOU’VE probably seen I’m racing a Hyundai i10 in a banger race this weekend.
We’re doing it to mark the end of the UK scrappage scheme and are producing a video of my efforts for the website.
While I was trying to think of way to end the film, I had a brain wave. Yes, I do [...]

YOU soon realise when you’re in the company of geniuses and today was one of those days.
We’ve been in Hailsham, East Sussex, at Cecilsrentarookie.co.uk’s workshop preparing our Hyundai i10 for its banger race this Sunday.
The workshop is like a giant toy box for grown-up boys. Littering the place were piles of carbs, exhausts, batteries and [...]