I note your support for the scrappage scheme. Is this the whole story? MoT service centres are immediately losing out on £4 million (30,000 cars times £45 times 3 years) income. Secondly the statement, often repeated in your column, that you should scrap a vehicle when an individual repair is more expensive than the car is worth is a motor industry herring. If I have a £400 car (probably generous for my R-reg Bravo) and spend say £500 a year keeping it on the road, I am no worse off than the depreciation on a £10,000 car would be in that same year. And the benefit does not go to Korea (or wherever). A significant part of it enriches my friendly local repair shop. The Bravo has been a bit of a lemon but still returns 7.9 l/100km on strictly urban driving. Crushing it to improve the prospects of Larry Lizard in the car showroom does not make economic sense.