Ford launches £2000 scrappage scheme 22 | 08 | 2017

    FORD HAS LAUNCHED its own scrappage scheme aimed at encouraging people to purchase newer, cleaner models of Euro 6 specification. The scheme, which aims to improve air quality across the UK, could save buyers as much as £7000.

    Running from September 1 to December 31, Ford will pay owners of Euro 1 to Euro 4 cars and vans (sold up to around 2010) £2000 for their vehicle if they buy a new Ford.

    That figure is in addition to additional savings already being offered by Ford. While the saving against a new-gen Ford Fiesta is restricted to the £2000 scrappage incentive, buyers opting for a new Transit get an additional £5000 contribution from Ford, meaning a total saving of £7000.

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    Elsewhere in the range, Ford already offers £2000 off the Kuga and £2950 off the Focus, meaning combined scrappage savings of £4000 and £4950 respectively.

    Ford’s incentive is open to both petrol and diesel pre-Euro 5 cars. Significantly, they also don’t have to be Fords, either, with any make or model eligible for trade-in.

    Ford said the scheme aims to remove as many older vehicles from Britain’s roads as possible, replacing them with Euro 6-compliant cars. The company Ford the latest diesel cars produce 82% less carbon monoxide than they did in 1993, while NOX emissions are down 84% since 2001.

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    According to Society of Motor Manufacturer and Traders data, there are 19.3 million vehicles that are of pre-Euro 5 emission levels on Britain’s roads. Ford claims that if all of those models were swapped for Euro 6 cars, national CO2 output would fall by 15 million tons per year.

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    “Ford shares society’s concerns over air quality,” Andy Barratt, Ford of Britain managing director, said. “Removing generations of the most polluting vehicles will have the most immediate positive effect on air quality, and this Ford scrappage scheme aims to do just that.

    “We don’t believe incentivising sales of new cars goes far enough and we will ensure that all trade-in vehicles are scrapped. Acting together, we can take hundreds of thousands of the dirtiest cars off our roads and out of our cities.”

    Ford’s move comes in the same month that Mercedes-Benz and BMW launched their own trade-in schemes to encourage drivers to switch to cleaner cars.

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