Ford to launch pre-Euro 5 vehicle scrappage scheme

Carmaker Ford is set to launch a new scheme which aims to encourage people to purchase newer, cleaner models of Euro 6 specification.

Applicable to any pre-Euro 5 vehicle, registered before December 2009, the initiative will run from 1 September until the end of the year and will pay owners of Euro 1 to 4 cars and vans £2,000 for their vehicles if they buy a new Ford.

The firm said the scheme hopes to remove as many older vehicles from roads as possible and replaced with Euro 6-compliant cars.

The £2000 payment offered for older vehicles will be added to any existing deals. Ford already offers £2000 off the Kuga, so along with the scrappage scheme funding, that would bring the total saving up to £4000.

Ford's EcoBoost petrol and EchoBlue diesel both meet the Euro 6 standard and plan to start trials of its new plug-in hybrid version of its Ford Transit Custom later this year.

The Transit PHEV is planned for commercial introduction in 2019

Andy Barratt, chairman and MD of Ford of Britain, commented: “Removing generations of the most polluting vehicles will have the most immediate positive effect on air quality, and this Ford scrappage scheme aims to do just that.

"We don’t believe incentivising sales of new cars goes far enough and we will ensure that all trade-in vehicles are scrapped. Acting together we can take hundreds of thousands of the dirtiest cars off our roads and out of our cities.”