The 2009 Scrappage Scheme was an AUTOMOTIVE SCANDAL.

[@stevenberg1903]

Unbelievable,had the same in the states. CARS (cash for klunkers). Over 650k vehicles taken off the streets....

[@GeoffBuysCars]

I did one on cash for clunkers, that one was interesting because in the USA you lost less of the iconic / desirable cars and a lot of the 90s rubbish. Search ‘Geoff buys cash for clunkers’ in KZbin.

[@OutRAjious]

😗🥹😗🥹😗

[@G-ra-ha-m]

It was globally coordinated, to help rid us of our wealth.

[@jameschambers6975]

@@GeoffBuysCars And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon. Revelation 9:11

[@twoMidnight2Green4649]

​@@GeoffBuysCars Did you ever see the video where the demonstrate how to kill the car and they used a Corvette? I guess maybe I should not feel this way but a car is a car and even if it was rubbish, it still had a story to it. Lots of these shitboxes could have gone to teenagers and poor people who would have appreciated them as transportation at least.

[@timhicks2154]

Yet another illustration of why NO-ONE should EVER comply with the idiotic instructions from our deranged Government.

[@seanryan4131]

It proves there are plenty of idiots around...

[@brutonstreettailor4570]

Yet a great many people bought into the “ diesel is cleaner” con.

[@robgraham9234]

never got instructed by the government to scrap my car, This was just a typical Tory "lets use taxpayers money to placate our big business sponsors and claim it's for the environment" policy.

[@seanryan4131]

@@brutonstreettailor4570 And now diesel is been outlawed by the powers that be.

[@ibrstellar1080]

@@seanryan4131 They were all in plain sight 4 years ago.

[@jester816]

The people who scrapped those cars should be banned from owning a car ever again.

[@ianbell6680]

I bet 60% of all them cars scraped had new brakes new wipers new bulbs new tyres

[@Galahadfairlight]

I remember a local metal yard bought a rival scrapyard so they could get in on the scrappage scheme. Rows of Corsas, rows of Peugeot 106's, rows of Citroen Saxo's, rows of Renault Clio's, rows of Fiat Punto's, etc etc. I must admit, it was very neat and very organised. Of course NONE of those cars were what the scrappage scheme was meant to capture, but it did. As a result, first time buyers were denied cheap entry level cars, having to spend thousands of Pounds on a car, because the £500 shitter bargain bin had been well and truly emptied. All these super mini sized cars, with new parts and fresh MOT'S being scrapped, put the likes of me out of business overnight as there were no cheap motors to fix up and sell anymore Wankers trying to hawk mk6 Escorts for £600 with no MOT because they "know what they had" but didn't understand the scrappage rules. Worst of all, motoring press supported it as well, seeing the demise of cars that should never have been scrapped. Scandalous scheme

[@therogers4432]

Well said Sir... 💪🤬 It was the absolute screaming-and-shitting death of thousands of young (and not so young...) lads' best chance of getting-on in life by using some proper practical skills that they learned from their Dads and Uncles and Grandads and friends when they were young, and if they worked hard and built a good reputation then some of them did extremely well for themselves, but now they're all working in crap tyre-places, halfords, or stacking shelves in Sainsbury's, and total slaves to their Corporate masters as a result... Hooray for beaurocrats with all their Common Sense and Real World Experience making these clever decisions on behalf of us feeble halfwits, and let's hope that tomorrow's Budget brings lots of good news for small businesses, eh? 🙄

[@darrenlomax1283]

Hey it's Galahad from Amiga fair light. I was told by the factory idiot that diesel was more harmful to the people than petrol, about 5 years before the scrappage scheme rolled out. If he knew this then so did the government. What I can't understand is why the car companies went along with it other than making money from newer car sales but to then get diesel gate, if it was a conspiracy it's beyond me what was really going on, and they're doing it all over again with EVs. My 53 transit could do a round trip to London on 45 litres of diesel, my 2012 & 2017 both use 70 litres (on the same roads). How is this eco-friendly. Plus my Ecoblue transit needs 10 litres of oil for each service. It's only a 2 litre engine. Takes 8 miles of driving to warm up; so it's always on choke.

[@timhicks2154]

I remember watching this the first time round and shaking my head in disbelief all the way through.

[@dennism7813]

Un believable Geoff. I cried all the way through this. I hate government for this very reason. I would love to have any one of those classic cars. Listening to the role call of the vehicles we lost just broke my heart. I can't believe what it happening.

[@linmal2242]

Who was the effing idiots who dreamed this scheme up, AND implemented it?

[@user-tn1vc1xz5d]

Quite a few Sierra XR4x4s were scrapped. An automotive crime if ever there was one 😮

[@robgraham9234]

Sorry, but can you clarify what you mean? Is it the sierra 4x4 that is an automotive crime, or is it scrapping a 4x4 sierra that is the crime

[@user-tn1vc1xz5d]

Scrapping them for sure. One of my favourite cars, can't explain why, maybe because my dad had a 2.0 GL and this was the fast version 😂

[@rakido7388]

I had a GLS 4x4, not as desirable as the XR4x4, despite being much rarer :-D

[@timhicks2154]

The dangers of compliance yet again.

[@linmal2242]

Yes, go and get your jab !

[@timhicks2154]

@ - no thanks! 😂

[@AP-hp4yo]

People will blame the government, but it was people who physically drove perfectly good cars to the dealers to be scrapped. All for a new number plate (greed and virtue signalling). The government understand the masses and play them accordingly. And who are the government, people.

[@paulcuthbert8353]

Breaks my heart to see so many GTi’s & XR3s taken off the road, especially the Peugeot 205 GTi! Gone, but never forgotten! Great, but sad retrospective video, Geoff! 👍

[@heywhotsgoinon8286]

Whoever scrapped the healey's should be in prison. I was going to moan even more, but my jaw is on the floor somewhere.

[@Linda-u5x]

It never happened div. Why would you scrap a car worth more than a thousand pound? But if you know anyone now with an e type jag or a Healy who wants to sell it for a thousand let me know?

[@anonintellect9882]

The healey if scrapped might have been real rough but you just don’t do that! An M5 would have had s50 engine, that’s £10,000 in pieces if you can find one, it was all the rage at the time, I remember cringing back then, didn’t they have an earlier itteration of the scheme in early 2000’s also?? So sad 😞

[@Linda-u5x]

@ They didn’t even have a scrappage scheme years ago and we lost chariots, horse drawn carriages, steam cars the first petrol cars, it’s a real shame, I mean there would have been nearly every family in the world with about forty different cars each bankrupted by repair bills but like you say.

[@anonintellect9882]

@@Linda-u5x not quite sure what you mean ‘like you say’? A man would mend a wagon his grandfather owned if it could be mended, Imagine a scrapyard of chariots, some roman operating the scales 😂, I think 1, people are intimidated by issues with their cars so almost want to get rid of it before they become financially impaired, its like ownership anxiety and 2 people cant resist a deal £2k for a corsa in scrap condition is quite irresistible at first. The further 9k finance you have to pay for your new car probably isn’t ideal if you were running a sh** box, plus 2k to repair your corsa compared to 500 to service your new slice of anxiolytic iron oxide makes the financial aspect a bit grey. The biggest teller of the uk economy is new car sales, the scrappage scheme was made to increase new car sales, it was detrimental to the environment. Tho I am sure many private individuals benefited taking a pile of rust saying it was a historic land rover and getting 2k off, I maintain they could have got that and more if the scrappage scheme wasn’t in place. Everything does have a shelf life but encouraging a throwaway society under the guise of ‘environmental protection’ is quite wrong and caused the price of all used cars to skyrocket, that’s a real shame.

[@Linda-u5x]

@ No I don’t think you understand, those cars that were scrapped at that time would have been scrapped anyway before now, like they have been since the 1900’s, if you look at cars built since the 1900’s until now, there was not a spike in the amount of cars disappearing five years either side of the scrappage scheme, the amount of cars built and scrapped has remained pretty constant. You’re working under the premise that people were scrapping cars for less than they were worth, they were not, also you need new cars to eventually become classics, so all those new cars bought during the scrappage scheme are now thousands more future classics, and using your logic, as there hasn’t been anymore scrappage schemes, they will all still be in people’s garages.👍

[@lewlewis6511]

Was still driving car transporters then, my employer had one of the contracts for picking up scrappage from dealers and delivering to various recycling centres. Yes there was some absolute garbage that were rightly scrapped, but every one of us picked up little gems of cars we'd have given our eye teeth to get for our daughters. Few notables which i picked up, one of the first i collected a lovely little 3 door Civic (the curvy one in gleaming white) rust free 60k mile ran sweet as a sewing machine, and a 36k mile 3 Series BMW, just why? i dropped half a laod of new Toyotas at one small town main dealer where the mechanics were having a blue fit, one senior lady owner mint conditionToyota Starlet sitting there waiting for collection, a popular cutomer she'd bought it new from them and they'd been servicing it and looking after it all its life. Make a grown man cry.

[@michaelj3282]

Great vid about how the UK screwed up giving YOUR MONEY (A government doesn't make money but takes it from YOU) I left the UK in 2005 (O5/05/05 - a Thursday and the last time Blair got elected), i watch from afar and can only shake my head at the UK now.

[@martynm.449]

Good for you! Don't whatever you do get homesick and come back. It's far from the place you remember. In another 20 years it will be a total 3rd world country here.

[@southendparaquest]

This was a hard watch. 😢 Oh, and unbelievable Geoff

[@raybell7696]

Remember a friend who was a car dealer, he said there were some fantastic cars being taken in,when I asked if we could buy them he said no because there was a paper chase because of the government..

[@troxigg]

You could have waited for possible buyers on forecourts to turn up and have a friend in the dealership or whatever ring you to have the opportunity to buy before they wrote it up as scrap. Once that document was signed too late but a few people got a lot of cheap cars before dealers took them in. Wasn’t illegal. A lot of used cars got wiped out because of that. Consumerism and a misconception that old cars were bad on the environment was rife. Too late, now we have to live with those consequences.

[@jameschambers6975]

@@troxigg A conspiracy of wanton destruction by mass deception.

[@robsmith1a]

My neighbour had an immaculate low mileage Micra that was scrapped for a less economical car! Unbelievable Geoff!

[@sunsetexplorer63936]

The problem with the scrappage scheme was that it was mostly middle class Boomers doing it just for the sake of getting a new car on the cheap, even though there was nothing wrong with what they had. Meanwhile, I know someone who had an R reg Mondeo back then and it was in terrible condition. Unfortunately, with a 3-year-old and a newborn baby, they needed a practical estate, and the £2000 scrappage discount just wasn’t enough for them to get a new one, so they were stuck with it. They did manage to get rid in 2010. Luckily a mate had sourced them a 51 plate 325i. That served them well for the next 7 years.

[@BeaHindebars]

I learned to drive in a beige Austin Allegro, wrote it off the day before my test, front axle snapped when I practiced my emergency stop 🤣

[@AnnieRed66]

Had 3 All-Agros play a part in my life. First was my Dad's...a poo brown Vanden Plas. Then a boyfriend had one, with dodgy brakes...we often used walls to stop it😂 Finally, I had my own...I was doing a carboot sale, one day and someone offered me more than I'd paid for it, so off it went.

[@edwardsierpowski3839]

That’s the BMW I have- in the thumbnail- it’s a manual diesel and runs beautifully.

[@angelamarynicz7865]

Unbelievable Geoff. All cars of a certain age gone. Will be people for the scrappage scheme if the assisted dying bill goes through. £2,000 if you bring your gtanny in for sctapping. Such a sad scary world.😢

[@AnnieRed66]

There aren't many likes on this comment...makes me think that people don't understand the gravity of the situation 😢

[@BeaHindebars]

@@angelamarynicz7865 elderly and vulnerable people are already being un-alived by the 'system' they are wanting to make it mainstream and normal. Canada is already further down this scarily slippy slope, offering it as a solution for depression or poverty. 😭😭

[@rocketmunkey1]

Meanwhile those behind assisted dying are living in the lap of luxury well into their 90's, just look at the Rot child family and their puppets the Windsor's !

[@peterwainwright576]

I knew a salesman working at a Kia dealer at the time. They had never sold as many cars, mostly basic very cheap models which were hateful things but at the time there was a ready supply of new ones available. If the “cheap” Chinese electric imports keep coming the same will happen again.

[@lindastevens6861]

The fun part They were the last cars without computer parts😅

[@Ash-BRFC]

Interesting.

[@guy4469]

This never gets old its brilliant you were young then .

[@dycevice897]

Unbelievable Geoff !, and frankly criminal….

[@matthewc.419]

And there all parked in fields now ..............rusting back into the ground , how clean n green 💚 can u get

[@maartenb100]

Suitable tragic music at the end. I’m going to have to open a bottle of wine now.

[@edh7492]

I remember watching this first time around but had managed to forget the trauma of learning that over 5000 Saxo’s went in the scheme. 😮‍💨

[@clivefowler1932]

Great video geoff, its just unbelievable tho, really is 😢

[@markanthony4086]

Unbelievable Jeff. So sad to see all those classics mindlessly scrapped even though many would of been perfectly sound roadworthy cars...madness!!

[@marks7471]

Unbelievable Geoff. Wasn't it a thing that the cars had to road worthy and still have an MOT? Which makes it even more sad.

[@bobbyfraser9515]

Unbelievable Geoff! I watched this 1st time round and I'm even more gutted this time! 69 Corrado's 😢 absolute crazy that happened.

[@petermitchell6348]

Unbelievable, Geoff. And all paid for by taxpayer money.

[@RichardHowells1234]

Unbelievable Geoff! F's sake. Rover SD1 particularly, personal.

[@cnursery]

Several years ago I had a Golf TDI (an excellent car). I later sold it to my son. After a couple of years, he noticed something wrong with the engine, probably big-ends. He took it to a car dealer in Bury St Edmunds to buy another car and to take advantage of their "scrappage scheme". He asked them for an assurance that the Golf would actually be scrapped, and not sold on. They confirmed the car would be scrapped. A year or so later I had a phone-call from a rather upset woman who said she had just bought said car in an Essex car auction and that the engine was making "funny noises". She had managed to get my name as a previous owner from the paperwork, and could I tell her anything about the car's history? I put her in touch with my son who confirmed to her the car had (or should have been) officially scrapped under the government scheme. Something very dodgy went on here, and the poor woman ended up paying good money for a written-off car.

[@glynnepritchard2526]

This was disgusting, getting rid of our collectable autos ...

[@Dobber72]

Unbelievable, all those 306 Gti, I'm gutted when it's laid out like that.

[@moragkerr9577]

One of them was mine. 120,000 miles, and a whole laundry list of problems. Nothing lasts forever.

[@BionicRusty]

14:15 Hillman Minx. I spent my childhood with that exact colour in my family. XCA 818. It was an absolute tank of a car. A very sad day when that left. 😢

[@MrLangneck]

Unbelievable geoff Thanks for the rerun dude how could anyone scrap a propa classic 🤦

[@maartenb100]

Unbelievable Geoff. Who in her right mind would scrap a 635CSI? Or a 2002?😢

[@therogers4432]

I see what you did ^here^, and it was really rather good... 😏 (Wryly tipping my titfer in your direction Sir... 🫡)

[@JamesOToole-bw7hu]

It’s unbelievable Jeff!! Many moons on and I still love Old Volves ffs . And I’ve left the game . Can’t fix em anymore so I just drive em . Life is good . Miss me dear Old Volve

[@brianmajer187]

Great video Geoff, bloody depressing tho 😢 I cannot believe we lost 1,394 Protons, legend of a car ☹️☹️☹️

[@guy4469]

This was one of your best down loads And Mrs geoffs arse when you were doing the Headlining 😁😁😁😁

[@NeilBarratt]

I made it to the end and am saddened to think of the tens of thousands of decent cars which were sacrificed on the combined altars of short term greed and environmental BS. An exception was a friend who traded in an absolutely knackered Clio with lethal electric power steering which would cut in and out for a bottom of the range Picanto which she still has. The local dealer sold a huge number of bottom of the range Picantos during that scheme. There was a waiting list for them.

[@barbaraelms4168]

Unbelievable Geoff, it breaks my heart. I'm nearly 70 and I grew up when to own any car was unusual, nearly as rare as having a phone in your home.

[@royfishall6482]

Unbelievable Geoff. It did nothing to save the planet. Unbelievable Geoff. With you til the end of the video. It did nothing to save the planet.

[@keithvers569]

Unbelievable Geoff, the genuine classics should have been worth way more than 2 grand at the time

[@Rich.Aardvark]

At the time, I worked at a PSA distribution centre. My boss bought a 205 GTi and had it commissioned for restoration. It cost about 10k in total and it was probably worth 4k when finished. It was a labour of love to keep something on the road back then .

[@fredfred2363]

Vdub Corrados for Christs sake?! Like what?! I mean you could never buy one of them even before 2008 for under £5k. Even in really rough condition. Such a desirable car.

[@interceptor-ss8kb]

It's still sickening today.

[@petersmith5723]

Hi Geoff , the original was the first of your videos that I watched . Watching it for a second time I think it makes more impact when you see what is happening to our passion .

[@OutRAjious]

those little fiats had amazing fuel mileage v environmentally sound

[@timhicks2154]

I saw a Rover Vitesse on the road last weekend. Mint condition too.

[@IncognitoChild]

Unbelievable Geoff!😮 and quite tragic.😫 It's a quite hard to comprehend when the vast majority of cars I've owned through my driving life have featured in the scrappage scheme:. 205 GTIs, TVR S series, Subaru Impreza WRX (classic shape) and (three) flipping Lotuses 😭

[@BeaHindebars]

Unbelievable Geoff 😢 I fell for it, never again.

[@100celt9]

What a travesty. Could shed a tear.

[@josephravu5039]

What a loss. And for two thousand pounds? Unbelievable Geoff.

[@WeAreTheUnhappyMajority]

Nice jumper Geoff, looks extremely expensive.

[@soyboypersonalfinance1138]

Yep, all that money he’s getting from Kia

[@wendysharpe4568]

😂

[@timhicks2154]

I’m surprised they didn’t come after my Classic Historic motorcycles.

[@evileyes4070]

Unbelievable Geoff

[@OutRAjious]

those Audi A4 saloons were classic beauties

[@EverydayLife621]

Remember it well, we took advantage of this - traded in a pug 206. … but it was reduced VAT plus on certain models you got even more off. We still have our 59 plate golf, which cost 10k (or was it 12k)…. So it’s cost way less than £1000 / year to run (incl the depreciation)

[@lindastevens6861]

Just the fun of driving a old second hand Cadillac I had as a child . A chance to own a posh car at a regular price That memory is lost to this generation

[@johnstroud3448]

I saw this from the inside working a a dealership, The amount of beutiful ly maintained small british car's such as the Fiesta that were sacrificed, that any young woman would have loved to have owned for her first car. It sould have been a criminal offence

[@richardbutler4488]

I say most of the cars ended up in Africa and the third world. Once it had the scrap cert get them out of the UK as quickly as possible 😮

[@hamstirrer6882]

Better that than being destroyed, I admire what people in 3rd world countries do to keep cars driving, we could learn a lot from them haha

[@HD33P1]

Well, one idiot suggested sending all of our cars to Ukraine and replacing them with electric cars

[@opotopo1]

Don't you just love central planning ...

[@BillyBanter100]

Sadly most people are very short sighted and require constant instant gratification which is why the streets are jam packed with the trash we see today. The only thing worth keeping on a modern car after 6 years are the vanity plates.

[@neilsouthyorks]

Unbelievable Geoff, Probably why I can't find a Mk1 Honda Prelude without having to remortgage the house

[@BionicRusty]

Just imagine the net worth today. I think you’d be a millionaire by the ‘B’s. 😔

[@jameschambers6975]

And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.KJV Revelation 9:11.

[@bobbobbins8913]

I just forked out close on two grand having a mechanical shakedown on my daily-driver 2003 E39 530i touring. I reckon it's worth it - 127,000 on the clock, and every time I start it up it makes me smile. It's a joy to drive, looks divine (when I wash it)...and gets greener with every mile. Sadly, though, it's got to the stage where if you meet another E39 driver coming the other way, we often flash the lights and wave.

[@johnlee4897]

Back in 2010 I'd scrapped a 2003 Ford Mondeo diesel with approx 147,000 miles that kept cutting out every 10 - 15 miles. Mechanic said the diesel injector had a bad fault (ultra expensive). Also a 1997 Saab 95 with around 157,000 miles that had a damaged engine (suspected blown turbo). As they still had valid MOT and insurance, they qualified a combined £4000 under the scrappage scheme on a new Mk6 Golf diesel for which I also negotiated a discount and paid cash balance. Just had the AA dump the Saab at the VW dealer and clonked my way over with the Mondeo. Geoff, they were both duff with faults that exceeded their worth.

[@wendysharpe4568]

These were what the scheme was really meant for though, not decent runners, classics, rare

[@philipparker1319]

Hearing a Rover 100 P4 got scrapped and also a couple of VW type 3 fastbacks made me wince! Current owner of a roadworthy 1961 Rover 100 here and who also had a VW Type 3 fastback some years ago (a car I very much regret parting with in hindsight 😢). I have to wonder behind the scrapping of some of those older and more interesting cars - my suspicion is that quite a few were “grandpa’s old motor” which granny kept on when he died and which ended up sitting in a garage not doing much, but that granny just could not part with. Granny then shuffles off or goes into care home and disinterested children or grandchildren just see a handy £1000 carrot towards their shiny new pile of you know what.

[@zenaakers7469]

that's unbelievable. Geoff

[@deannagoldston4276]

I'm with you Geoff this is an eye opener, thanks for a great vid, Never realised what was going on but now I understand. Another huge scam.

[@cheechmcduck7013]

Again. Unbelievable Geoff... 2nd time listening and it's even more depressing then the first watch .

[@fredfred2363]

Unbelievable Geoff. gutting.

[@stanleyclark7758]

Truly unbelievable Geoff. At the time I called this strategy out, now the classic car market is badly affected as a consequence. 🥴😀🤓

[@moragkerr9577]

That was really interesting. 23 Peugeot 306 GTis? One of them was mine. Ariel, he was called. I bought him new in 1998 and he was absolutely great. Fantastic car. Toured Europe in him. He moved my stuff back from Sussex when I returned to live in Scotland. That was 2006, and things were beginning to go a bit wrong. His aircon died, pronounced uneconomical to repair. His passenger seat had always been inclinded to slide about on its runners, and that was worse. There were water leaks above the driver's seat. Wasn't the sunroof. Oh yes, and the untraceable parasitic drain that sporadically stranded me with a flat battery. I'd just moved house, bought a house right on the top of my budget, no money left to replace the car. Managed to keep him going another two and a half years, but it was getting close to the end of the road. 120,000 miles on the clock. Prices online for the same car WITHOUT the dead aircon, sliding passenger seat and leaks, were about £500. I wanted a new Golf GTi Mk6. What would you have done? Seriously? Contacted the Antiques Roadshow? So Ariel went to the scrappage scheme, to be replaced with Prospero the Golf (who lasted until a careless BMW driver totalled him in 2023). A few months later there was a local news report. Two young lads killed down Selkirk way when the driver took a bend too fast and went off the road. In a Peugeot 306 GTi. I was really really glad Ariel was baked beans cans by then, and I knew for sure he hadn't killed these boy racers.

[@mccarthyjohn576]

This was like watching the movie "Champ", you know John Voight dies, but you start bawling when Ricky Schroder does. Please pass the tissues. It's just heartbreaking.

[@davidbrown2571]

Stayed with it till the end. I noticed many small cars that had cheap insurance used by delivery drivers, small mobile business people , and less polluting and good mpg.

[@martinhudson2552]

Shocking. The throw away society had already started back then. Most people do not value cars. They just want a new number plate to show off to their mates. We are Still running 20 plus year old cars. One being an old Xsara picasso 2.0 diesel. Maintained by me and still drives good. 👍

[@timhicks2154]

All over in Africa now no doubt!

[@KyleMTB26]

This is eye-opening never thought about where the cars went like saxo's vectra's. Very tragic!

[@clutchdroptv4345]

Unbelievable geoff this was the first video of yours I watched I've been hooked ever since

[@timhicks2154]

Unbelievable, Geoff.

[@keithjones7876]

unbelievable Geoff, i've owned some of these cars in the passed and really do miss them, they were ALL characters

[@danny222flynn222]

Unbelievable and an eye opener how many older classics got scraped.

[@simonmills2250]

Unbelievable Geoff. And even more so because at the time they were encouraging the 'Dash for Diesel' to replace all these (now) classics and look how that ended up.

[@fishinmalarkey9830]

UNBELIEVABLE GEOFF ❤ Youve hit the nail on the heed mate

[@Yoda628]

I knew this topic was going to be depressing but that was just pure criminal IMHO! I'm away to cry in a corner now...

[@wonyankeesays5661]

Unbelievable!,, especially the Volvo 740s😢

[@OutRAjious]

and V5

[@lesallison9047]

UNBELIEVABLE GOEFF Well, at the time I thought, if they are economical write-offs fair enough. But Geoff, you have made me feel extremely sick 🤮 What was some of these people thinking?!?! INSANITY

[@barleyarrish]

Very interesting video, we are looking for a freelander that will be our third, loved every one. Started when I bought a boat and had to say a sad farewell to my beloved Rover 216 GTi. WHOLESALE DESTRUCTION is an appropriate epithet for the 2009 scrappage scheme.

[@keithpvt]

Unbelievable! what's like not in 2024? I'd hate to think, My wife has still got 2005 Freelander TD4 and loves it, and I'm still driving my 2004 Discovery V8, we wouldn't touch anything newer that 2010. enjoy your break Geoff, cheers from Australia.

[@FinnBearOfficial]

What happened was they got everyone to swap in their cars with no computers. Now everyone has a car that goes online. Soon, limits on how much a pleb really needs freedom to move around. It's going to be easier when you have no paper money in your pocket.

[@NielsHeusinkveld]

Two steps forward, three steps back

[@iancollins4320]

Unbelievable, how sad

[@colinritchie1510]

Unbelievabe, Geoff! OMG, tragic loss of so many cars...

[@Authurius]

Really unbelievable, Geoff. A 1975 Scimitar owner. RIP all those classics

[@jms211]

Unbelievable Geoff! I'm NOT going to make a cup of tea. I'm going to fix myself a stiff drink. It is a tragedy that so many practical classics were lost to the scrappage scheme. I can understand how, at the time, a rusty old Ford Fiesta might seem not worth saving, but TRIUMPH??? Go figure.