VW Group scrappage scheme 01 | 09 | 2017
VOLKSWAGEN GROUP HAS become the latest to announce its own scrappage scheme. The new programme applies to Volkswagen, Audi, Skoda and Seat brands, and is available at all the group's Scottish dealers. Savings of up to £8000 are available. The news follows similar schemes from BMW, Ford, Hyundai and Vauxhall.
The offers are available for customers trading in any Euro 1 to 4 standard diesel car as long as the vehicle to be scrapped was registered before 2010. It also has to have been registered in the owner’s name for at least six months.
The scheme — as is the case with those from other car makers — will run until the end of 2017. Plug-in models from the Volkswagen and Audi brands are available with fresh discounts on top of government incentives.
The UK scheme is very similar to that which VW announced in Germany last month, with larger discounts available on more expensive Euro 6 compliant models.
While £1800 can be saved on the price of a new up! if a valid car is traded in to be scrapped, mid-size and larger VW cars are available with discounts ranging from £4000 to £6000.
Further saving can be made on plug-in hybrid and fully electric cars, which have their incentives bundled with the government’s OLEV grant. That means VW’s £5500 scrappage discount applies to the all-electric e-Golf alongside the pre-existing £4500 discount from the government.
Discounts from Audi are similar to the VW savings, with £2800 off an Audi A1, £4000 off an A3, £6000 off an A4 or A5, and £8000 off a Q7 e-tron.
Incentives for cars from the Skoda and Seat brands are slightly smaller; while the VW up! gets £1800 off, the Seat Mii and Skoda Citigo only get savings of £1500.
It’s worth highlighting that some models across the VW Group don’t get any scrappage deals. Both the Seat Ateca and Skoda Kodiaq exempt from the scheme, as are the VW Touareg and TDI versions of the Audi Q7. Perhaps not surprisingly, Audi RS models, the R8 and the A8 are also notable by their absence.
No decision has yet been made on whether the new VW Polo or T-Roc, both of which are due to enter Scottish showrooms before the end of the year, will be included in the scrappage scheme.
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Jim McGill