Car scrappage in 2009...

[jifflemon]

taken from here

We lost 79 480s in 2009!

Dread to think how many we'll lose in the current scheme...

[frenchfries]

Nearly 40 Citroen 2CV? I find the data very surprising........

[jifflemon]

I've seen several examples recently were people with rotten old cars put the car on Facebook/eBay/gumtree saying "give me £2k cos it's what I can get in scrappage".

Sadly these idiots actually think they're getting 2k off a new car.....

[jamescarruthers]

The way I read the data is that there were 166 480's scrapped when you include the sub-models like ES, turbo, etc! Yikes!

And up to 62 more if you include "VOLVO,400,1 and ‎VOLVO,400 SERIES,61‎"‎

‎VOLVO,480,79
VOLVO,480 2.0 ES 3DR,1
VOLVO,480 CELEB PETROL,1
VOLVO,480 Celebration,7
VOLVO,480 CELEBRATION AUTO,1
VOLVO,480 COUPE,1
VOLVO,480 ES,24
VOLVO,480 ES 2.0,1
VOLVO,480 ES 3dr,1
VOLVO,480 ES AUTO,2
Volvo,480 ES GT,1
VOLVO,480 ES S/R,5
VOLVO,480 GT,3
VOLVO,480 LI,1
VOLVO,480 S,1
VOLVO,480 SE,1
VOLVO,480 SE 3 Door,1
VOLVO,480 SE AUTO,1
VOLVO,480 Turbo,7
VOLVO,480 TURBO 3 DOOR HATCHBACK,1
VOLVO,480 Turbo Auto,1
VOLVO,480 TURBO S/R,2
VOLVO,480 XI AUTO,1
VOLVO,480Es,11
VOLVO,480ES Auto,1
VOLVO,480GLE,1
VOLVO,480GT,1
VOLVO,480S,7
VOLVO,480TURBO,1‎

[jifflemon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Taf7o9sOFkc

Day trip anyone?

[Alan 480]

12 seconds in view of an SS1, galv chassis version, nowt to go wrong that isn't easy fix!

[dragonflyjewels]

Heartbreaking isn't it ? At least they are being broken for spares rather than just crushed....

[Jay-Kay-Em]

Very interesting data - I like how DVLA is publishing this stuff - albeit after a FOI request.

The data is very 'dirty' though. Looks like entrants have had free text - very dangerous! You should see the amount of spellings for Vauxhall!

480 Xi and 480 GLE..... they are 440 trim levels. ... and they were probably Volvo dealers entering that! Reminds me of a post I saw on here where the Volvo dealer called it a four-eight-zero

[jifflemon]

Heartbreaking isn't it ? At least they are being broken for spares rather than just crushed....

Sadly their not....

The "spares thing" is probably illegal stripping of them. There used to be thousands more. Apparently, they're just waiting for the price of scrap to go back up before offing the last load.

You can see this scope of the operation https://www.google.co.uk/maps/search/pa ... a=!3m1!1e3

You can see the clean bits of concrete where cars have been.

[dragonflyjewels]

um, surely they've been deliberately positioned by make and model for easier breaking ? I read that as the owner taking them batch by batch to a workshop somewhere else and concentrating on one marque at a time ? If they were going for scrap wouldn't they just be jumbled up ?