Classics not exempt in kia scrappage scheme
Korean marque’s initiative won’t spare any classic traded in on scrappage – but dealers can intervene
Classics could be victims of Kia’s latest scrappage scheme despite a spokesman for the Korean manufacturer admitting that this would be ‘a tragedy.’
The programme, which lasts until December, offers Scrappage customers up to £3000 off certain Kia models. Company spokesperson Daniel Sayles admitted to Classic Car Weekly that there were no concessions allowed for historic vehicles.
‘As has always been the case with scrappage schemes, any car has to be taken off the road and evidence of this presented to the DVLA. In terms of classic cars being scrapped it would be an absolute tragedy, but we can’t make any special concessions for these cars’, he commented.
‘We’d hope individual dealers might be able to make a special arrangement, but this wouldn’t be official.’
Cars taken in under the scheme have to be at least seven years old; the owner applying has to have owned the trade-in vehicle for six months or more.
Daniel added: ‘We don’t want people going out and buying old bangers, then taking advantage of the scheme that way. The idea is to get smoky old diesels and other polluting cars off the road.’
Ford was criticised last year after insisting that a 1959 Standard Ten part-exchanged for a new Transit van under its scrappage scheme had to be destroyed. Following protests, the company then changed its stance and agreed that the car could survive, but not be used on the road.
The original Government-sponsored scrappage scheme in 2009-2010 cost the British taxpayers £400 million while 90 per cent of the cars purchased under it were imported models. Nick larkin