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Sarkozy's economic proposals

Bluebell

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Sarkozy is going to announce a 19 billion euro package tomorrow to help, amongst other things, the French car industry. I heard that he proposes to give people at least €1000 towards a new car if they scrap their old one. :eek: You'd better get over here and save all those poor R4s.
 
I've already done my bit (for visitors who can't see the albums there's now an Ornella page).

Seems awfully silly to me, though I'd hope the people who like to buy new cars will have already made that mistake and won't have been driving around in our treasured R4s for the last 20 years.
 
There was a similar scheme in France in the 1990s that took a lot of R4s off the road....

If only they'd put in a clause that excluded R4s from this ...
 
It reminds me of a similar regulation we had here from '90 to '93. You got around 1500 euros price reduction on a modern car if you scrapped an old one, and you didn't have to pay road tax on it for 5 years. As there were a lot of '60s R4 alive back then, this regulation wiped them away... :-( . Good news were that some of the better cars, not only R4s, were not scrapped actually but sold as parts donors through a series of auctions. Very few people back then were forward-thinking and saved some really rare classics.
I think that R4s in danger in France now are those 80s ones that are used as everyday workhorses. Earlier ones are considered to be classics by many people now.
 
It's nice seeing all these R4s waiting to be shipped to start a second life elsewhere, rather than wait to be scrapped!
 
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