"Depresion" wrote in message
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"Oliver Keating" wrote in message
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This really p****s me off about company cars, its such a wasteful policy
to
throw away cars that are 3 years old.

They are hardly thrown away, they are sold and form the back bone of the
2nd
hand car market.

I reckon company cars should have a minimum life cycle of 10 years,
maybe
20.

The price of relatively new 2nd hand cars would increase dramatically as
would
the number of older cars on the road not very good for the environment.
Forcing
all company cars to be sold after 1 year to a government agency who would
then
sell them on in exchange for an older car (IE a 5 to 10 year old car is
used as
a deposit based on say the black book price plus a grand with a government
funded low interest credit on the balance) this would help get the less
safe
worse polluters off the road.



Maybe the price of second hand cars is rediculously low. After 3 years a car
is worth 1/3 of its value? That is crazy. Is it 1/3 of the car?

Maybe if there weren't so many Mondeo's piling onto the market people would
be driving around in more Supermini's and City cars which are never used as
company cars.

If second hand car prices were kept a little higher, then people would keep
cars longer before scrapping them. It only takes a £200 repair to a 10year
old car and its off down the scrap heap - what a waste.

And, btw as for the environment, manufacturers always claim how "clean"
their cars are, but an unbeleivable amount of environmental damage occurs
during the manufacture *and disposal* of a car which seems to be frequently
ignored.

There is an old expression - "waste not, want not"

But it appears in our consumer society where everyone is going nuts with
"buy, buy, buy," it is the fashion to have a new car every couple of years.
Just as with everything else, we buy, we throw away, we buy we throw away.
The cycle will only come to an end when we abruptly run out of resources.