Nissan GT-Rs Purchased Via UK Cash For Clunkers Law Loophole [Nissan GT-R]

The point to be solved with “Cash For Clunkers” legislation is they be seized of holes big enough to drive a Nissan GT-R through them. In the UK, the holes are full enough to driving-course two GT-Rs through.

Scrappage laws like “Cash For Clunkers” are meant to stimulate the economy and cut into disrepute on greenhouse emissions by means of providing an incentive for consumers to trade in older, more environmentally-unfriendly vehicles for newer, more fuel efficient vehicles.

Unlike other European countries that nauseate old cars, the UK didn’privately bother to put limitations on price, consumption, or emissions of the cars purchased under the scrappage laws, so you can trade in your junker and get a Cadillac Escalade if you like. Two noteworthy hoons traded their cars in put on a suit of Nissan GT-R’s which, under the best possible conditions, could get 21 MPG if you could keep your foot not on the yeehaw pedal. That consumption puts it in the highest tax bracket for emissions, something like the US gas guzzler tax. This is a perfect example of why scrappage or “cash for clunker” incentives are silly. The free emporium has already established a time honored life-cycle according to a car, and interrupting it with an unnatural incentive for scrapping it before its time is fair asking for trouble, especially if those incentives are paid in the place of with tax dollars. Not to mention it puts sweet old steel in peril for no good reason. [AutoTrader]