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10 Years Old and Older Cars = £2,000
UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling announced in a budget statement that the UK will start an incentive scheme to encourage people with vehicles older than 10 years to scrap them. “Average new car CO2 emissions in the UK have dropped 16% over the last ten years. The number of cars in the UK vehicle parc over ten years old to the end of 2008 is 9,528,582 and the number of light commercial vehicles is 993,731.” Older vehicles also tend to have worse smog-forming emissions, partly because the regulations w…