Having seen a Croydon Volkswagen advert in the local press for “a £2,950 allowance to buy a new Golf on top of the government scrappage.” I called in at their showroom yesterday. I asked the sales executive for availability of the car featured in the advert, a Golf S 1.6 TDI for £11,355, and was told that none were available from stock. I then asked if there were any on order and he consulted his computer and said that although there were many cars on order none had a firm delivery date and he could not guarantee that any car would be available before the 16 week “cut off”. He therefore advised me against ordering a car as I could be faced with paying the full price for it when it was delivered. I then went to the local Citroen dealership where I was told that as long as the details of the proposed scrappage and purchase were registered when a car was ordered the deal would be honoured regardless of the delivery date. I’m interested to know who is right?