List of US scrappage cars

VolvoMan

It will honestly scare you: http://www.cars.gov/files/official-information/trade-in-vehicles.pdf

colm_mcm

this is what they do with the engines to make sure they don't use them in other cars.
Madness.

Volvo S80
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waj2KrKYTZo


BMW 530i
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SXA1oZnj98&feature=related

They drain the oil, then fill a mixture of sand and water in instead so it wrecks the engine

note the huge clouds of smoke this environmental measure produces.

road_high

VolvoMan wrote: »

It will honestly scare you: http://www.cars.gov/files/official-information/trade-in-vehicles.pdf

Wow some relatively new stuff. Would still be worth good money here with the right engines (no doubt all petrol in USA)

road_high

That's shocking that S80 looks like a beaut to me :eek:. Was too painful to watch. Such waste.

Santa Claus

1 idiot traded in a 97 DB7 Volante according to the list.....Was there a fixed trade-in value for all the cars or did it depend on the car in question ?

EPM

Some cars on that list are only 3 years old! Shocking stuff to be honest...wonder if they're happy with their new Rabbit:pac:

VolvoMan

EPM wrote: »

Some cars on that list are only 3 years old! Shocking stuff to be honest...wonder if they're happy with their new Rabbit:pac:

I think there's an '08 SAAB 9-3 Aero on that list too!:eek:

homer90

Its completely senseless IMO :mad:

note the huge clouds of smoke this environmental measure produces

Along with the oil / fluids pi$$ing onto the ground in some clips !

L1011

Some number of post-00 LPG Ford pickups on that list, are they that bad?

Dartz

I honestly cried at some of the cars that have been chopped.

Bentley's, Rolls-Royces, a Buick GNX...... Cashed in for a flat 4500 dollars.

bladebrew

a 2008 ford mustang:eek:

do they accept crashed cars into this scheme??

there are a good few 2008 cars,

bladebrew

all gone to the scrap heap!! and a bizarre amount of jeep cherokees:eek:

Stephen

Afaik they have to be running, but they can be in sh1t condition bodywork wise. The cash for clunkers scheme is over now anyway - they ran out of money for it. The main criteria are that the car you're trading in has to be a gas guzzler and the one you replace it with has to be efficient... by American standards.

unkel

Horrible stuff

I've only had a quick browse, but it includes a Bentley, hundreds of Jaguars including dozens of XJS, Audis including ur-quattros and V8s, Porsches, BMWs including M3 / M5 / 635 / 850, Mercs including AMG.

Wrecked just to give their owners up to $4,500 off a brand new piece of sh1t made in Detroit? :mad:

colm_mcm

It's a reflection on how hard this stuff is to sell over there. There's a vid on youtube of a Maserati Biturbo. the owner was delighted to get $3500 for it as he couldn't sell it for that for ages.

flanzer

Watching that S80 is like watching an execution video. Horrible stuff

colm_mcm

This is a much better sendoff for an old car

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd49-yuFNDc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixnhfysEEDg&feature=channel

Stephen

Just a note, the $4500 isn't just for Detroit ****ters - it can be used against any new car once it's economical enough. I think the top cars traded in against on this scheme were Toyota Corollas (or whatever they call 'em here) and Ford Focuses.

Still soul destroying to see the likes of those ur-quattros in there. Let's hope they were wrecks already

colm_mcm

on a positive note, its taking a load of those vulgar huge SUVs off the roads. a look at any of the youtube vids will show heaps of the things getting ready to be scrapped.

cvisser

thats stomach churning stuff!!!! killed me to watch some of that stuff, would it not make sense to set a website up and sell the parts online, instead of just wasting the cars:D:D:D

cvisser

zie german's are doing the same but thanks god there not killin the cars, some nice good cars here too,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9sZ4GF9_oM

Del2005

unkel wrote: »

Wrecked just to give their owners up to $4,500 off a brand new piece of sh1t made in Detroit? :mad:

More like Seoul and and Tokyo as the Americans still haven't figured out how to make fuel efficient cars yet. That's what p!ssed them off the most. It was supposed to save the US car makers and nearly everyone bought foreign.

unkel

Stephen wrote: »

Just a note, the $4500 isn't just for Detroit ****ters - it can be used against any new car once it's economical enough.

Aye, read that later. Doesn't make sense though...

Stephen wrote: »

I think the top cars traded in against on this scheme were Toyota Corollas

So they are just sending the money to Japan? How the hell would that help the US economy recover? Seems like the most ridiculous waste of US taxpayers money. What imbecile came up with this plan?

partyguinness

As a BMW owner and lover, I have tears in my eyes and a horrible feeling at the bottom on my stomach.

There is no emoticon that can express my feelings at this time.