Volkswagen group diesel scrappage schemes announced

Volkswagen scrappage scheme announced Customers can get money off new Volkswagen, Seat, Skoda or Audi, as Volkswagen announces its entries into the industry’s scrappage scheme trend

The Volkswagen Group has unveiled UK scrappage schemes for all of its mass-market brands, designed to get customers into newer, less polluting cars and out of older cars from the Euro 1-4 classifications. 

The schemes cover the Volkswagen and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles brands, as well as Audi, Seat and Skoda. 

The Volkswagen brand scheme, first hinted at earlier this month by VW when it revealed a similar strategy in Germany, will offer £1800 off a new Up, while the highest saving is reserved for the Sharan and Passat GTE at £6000.

Larger discounts for the brand’s electrified models can also be combined with the Government’s grant for low-emission vehicles. A £5500 scrappage scheme discount combined with the Government’s £4500 OLEV grant can result in a total saving of £10,000 on an e-Golf. Adding in the £2500 Government grant for plug-in hybrids, the Golf GTE can have £7500 off and the Passat GTE £8500 off. 

Any car in the VW range, aside from the Touareg, is eligible for discount, regardless of whether it’s petrol or diesel-powered, hybrid or fully electric. VW says the scheme is being introduced to encourage the uptake of lower-emission vehicles, including hybrids and full electric cars.

Audi's scrappage scheme offers between £2000 and £8000 off its range - the smallest £2000 saving applied to the Q2 and the largest £8000 saving offered on its Q7 e-tron plug-in hybrid. The A3 e-tron plug-in hybrid has a £5000 discount applied, which combined with the Government's grant for low emission vehicles, is boosted to £7500. The new A8, R8 and sporting RS cars are not included in the scheme. 

Discounts of between £1500 and £4000 are available on the Skoda range, although the Kodiaq is not included in the offer. A similar strategy is offered by Seat, with the smallest £1500 discount applied to the Mii, and £3500 discount applied to the Leon; the Ateca is not included. Skoda's largest £4000 saving is for the Superb.

Across all five scrappage schemes, cars of any brand can be traded in, although they must be diesel models and must have been registered before 2010 with pre-Euro 5 emissions classification. The car must have been kept by the owner for at least six months. The traded-in car will be scrapped under the scheme and no cars will be sold on. Other brands have pledged that valuable cars may not be scrapped and, in some schemes, Euro 4 cars are sold on.  

Volkswagen's commercial vehicle arm offers either £1000 or £2000 off its models, although unlike the other brands, the discount can be used with existing offers, so discounts of up to £4000 can be achieved.

Toyota was the most recent brand to offer a scrappage scheme to UK customers, alongside Hyundai, Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz.  

All VW group scrappage schemes start on 1 September and ends on 31 December. 

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