Scrappage Scheme Boosts GTR Sales
Two new Nissan GTRs were some of the first sales to be recorded after the UK introduced its clunker-rebate scheme yesterday. “Buyers pounced within five hours of the initiative starting this morning,” reported Autotrader.co.uk. Britain’s scrappage incentive offers about $3K per scrapped ten-years-or-older vehicle, but unlike other EU nations, Britain did not place carbon emission limits on qualifying new cars. Because, as Autotrader points out, proponents of the bill worked with the assumption that rising efficiency averages means all new cars are less polluting than the vehicles they would replace. Nissan’s GTR emits 298g/km of CO2, earning it a spot in Britain’s most-polluting tax band. We can only hope our own eventual scrappage rebate will be vulnerable to similar abuse.
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"Yep lots of people sitting on 10 year old cars needing an extra 3k help on a GT-R…Right" "Britain’s scrappage incentive offers about $3k per scrapped ten year or older vehicle," Sounds like you may be able to scrap as many as you want. Scrap 30 and the GT-R is free.
At $82,000 per GT-R copy, two were sold? Joke! Watch Wheeler Dealers HD Theater. UK car stuff and very interesting.
RogerB34 - spot on, that Wheeler Dealers show on HD Theatre is one of my favorite shows.
Something tells me Jeremy Clarkson was behind this.