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It is not just the UK, that has a scrappage scheme and in fact it was suggested that the UK was too late to get in on the scheme and so many of European buyers had bought their cars with Germany and France benefiting greatly. However in certain areas they are now the point of reducing the amount of money available, (normally 2000 euros). Take Spain for example, with their scrappage scheme called the Plan E2000.

A typical area in Spain is Murcia and originally they added 500 euros to the 1500 euros agreed by the National Government and car dealers. But now they have run out, money after 1600 cars have been bought dispensing with the 8,000.000 euros set aside by Murcia. You do see a lot of older cars in Spain, as the weather is kinder to bodywork than the UK, so the Plan E2000 may have been a better deal out here, especially as used cars are more expensive than the UK, which is reverse to how it was 10 years ago.

It may be that Europe as a whole has done it’s bit to stimulate the new car market, it is just a shame that cars made in Britain don’t not seem to have sold as well as the German or Korean cars