Buyback hypothetical

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Originally Posted by Gobes32

Did you read the post above yours? No one will force you.............

Actually globes according to Flappist's hypothetical you would be forced, unless you registered as a club car.
Flappist took the MTAA article and put a flappist spin on it.

Originally Posted by flappist

Yes I am bored.......

There is a lot of blurb floating around about $3k buyback for old cars so I will take it one step further.

The Feds decide to solve this once and for all.

No motor vehicle less than 3 tons is allowed to be registered for private use once it is 10 years or 250,000km old.
There are no loopholes for doof doofs and the penalty for trying in license restricted to 50kw pink bubble cars for life.

Collectable vehicles can be registered like vintage or club cars are now.

To aid this transition to the new era, NEW Australian made vehicles will be subsidised for 5 years and all import duties and taxes other than GST removed.

This means that although you paid $30k for your XR6 and the new one will be only $20k so your is now worth bugger all you will only have to pay what you would have paid if this scheme were not in.

The nett result will be that first car buyers will be able to get a BA for $3k instead of a pile of junk, old falcons that are not crap will still be around but the junk removed, lots of cheap vehicles will become availabe for amateur motorsport (drags, track and tally), much less pollution, more jobs in the car industry, less road deaths due to more airbags, ABS, crumple zones etc (note I said less DEATHS, not less PRANGS).
Collectable vehicles will be preserved as they will no longer be in the hands of idiots who ruin them because they are "just old cars".

The down side is that car collectors will have to be fair dinkum not doof doofs as they will not be allowed to drive their half finished mismatched wheeled, primer painted, dodgey engined, sort of GT/HSV/VL turbo replica to maccas every night.

So is this the answer to fixing the car industry and lowering the road toll in one hit? Or is it more important that VL turbos and EAs are available to the backward cap brigade?

[Tribal]

Flappist appears be influential on the world stage

World News / News.com.au
Old-for-new vehicle swap announced
Apr 23, 2009 8:32am
BRITAIN will pay drivers to swap old cars for new in a scheme to boost its stricken car sector, its finance minister said in today's Budget, mirroring moves in Germany and other European nations.
Alistair Darling told the House of Commons that the scheme, to be introduced from next month, would "provide motorists with a £2000 ($4125) discount on new cars bought when they trade in cars over 10 years old."
The move, which will cost the government around £300 million ($618.81 million) and runs to March 2010, comes following similar, popular steps taken in other European countries, notably Germany.
It was welcomed by Britain's struggling motor industry, which had been calling for such a scheme for months as it battles a dramatic fall in demand which has led to production cuts and job losses. Sales of new cars in Britain fell by almost a third in March - the 11th consecutive month of falls.
Firms like Nissan have announced job cuts at their production sites here and others like Jaguar Land Rover have brought in shorter hours and pay freezes.
Half of each £2000 ($4125) payment will come from the government and the other half from car companies. It is expected that around 300,000 drivers will benefit.
Despite earlier reports which suggested the scheme might be used to try and persuade drivers to buy greener new cars, it features no restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions of the vehicles which can be bought.
Mr Darling said it had been introduced amid a "loss of consumer confidence" which had "led to a sharp fall in vehicle sales around the world."
He will be hoping that the British scheme proves as popular as one launched in Germany, where the government has put up some five billion euros ($9.11 billion) .
There, an initial budget of 1.5 billion euros ($2.73 billion) was approved to cover state subsidies for the purchase of 600,000 cars but this was increased after demand greatly exceeded expectations.
In March, German car sales soared 40 per cent from the same month a year earlier to 401,000 vehicles.
In February, the first full month the plan was effective, German new car sales jumped 21.5 per cent, while falling elsewhere in the 16-nation eurozone.
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), the British car sector industry body, welcomed Mr Darling's announcement.
"This is good news for consumers and will get people back into showrooms, kick-starting demand in the market," its chief executive Paul Everitt said.
"The scheme recognises the economic value of the motor industry and we are determined to make it a success."
The president of motorists' group the Automobile Association, Edmund King, also praised the announcement.
"Drivers will be delighted that a generous scrappage scheme has been given the green light," he said.

[Gobes32]

I can see Fiesta sales peaking in Britain next month, a good cheap car just became cheaper.