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The newest cars on European scrapyards you find in the UK. This is astonishing, how new the cars are there.
In other countries the cars were mostly older. I say "were", because Germany wasn't the only country with a government-made wrecking-bonus to push on the car-industry. As I've heard, it was made during the last years in France, in Sweden, in Spain, too (yes, CCF, vilero?) and now in Greece, too.
Son in Germany until this January, when the "Abwrackprämie" was started, the scrapped cars were some years older, mostly 12, 13 years and more. Like using a switch, it has changed.
And -not only here, in Holland, Belgium and other countries, too, you nearly never have found Mercedes, BMW, Audi, bigger an medium-sized Japanese Sedans, never Jeeps, SUV's and Vans, because in the last years 80%(!) of the used German cars were exported. To Eastern Europe, the Balcan-states and -rougher ones- to Africa.
This was a reason for the "Abwrackprämie", because the statistics have said, that during the last 10-15 years the approximate age of the cars in Germany was getting older and older by year.
Before the Wall felt down in 1989, it was similar. Until this time you could find a lot of cars, younger than 10 years an German scrapyards. The was no big export, so low prices for used cars, and the cars of the 60ies and 70ies had bigger rust-problems. The worst rusty cars were made after the winter 1973/74 up to ca.1978/79. Many of them were crushed in the age of 5-6 years.
I remember scrap-yard-visits in 1987 and 1988, there were some 6-7-year old Skoda's, Lada's, but also Fiat's an Renault's.
France was known -for German old-car-freaks- as a paradise until they had founded a TÜV-like technical test.
In Sweden there were also many old cars on the road, until (in a year after 2000/2001 - @atom? ) the government has also offered a kind of wrecking-bonus.
Sweden had for a long time the reputation of the "Europe's best scrap-yard-county")
In Italy many old Fiat's were used (in the more humid countries they have rusted much faster
. I remember a school-trip to Roma in autumn 1989. There the Fiat 500 was the most seen car there. More than a 126, a 127 or a Panda.
In other countries the cars were mostly older. I say "were", because Germany wasn't the only country with a government-made wrecking-bonus to push on the car-industry. As I've heard, it was made during the last years in France, in Sweden, in Spain, too (yes, CCF, vilero?) and now in Greece, too.
Son in Germany until this January, when the "Abwrackprämie" was started, the scrapped cars were some years older, mostly 12, 13 years and more. Like using a switch, it has changed.
And -not only here, in Holland, Belgium and other countries, too, you nearly never have found Mercedes, BMW, Audi, bigger an medium-sized Japanese Sedans, never Jeeps, SUV's and Vans, because in the last years 80%(!) of the used German cars were exported. To Eastern Europe, the Balcan-states and -rougher ones- to Africa.
This was a reason for the "Abwrackprämie", because the statistics have said, that during the last 10-15 years the approximate age of the cars in Germany was getting older and older by year.
Before the Wall felt down in 1989, it was similar. Until this time you could find a lot of cars, younger than 10 years an German scrapyards. The was no big export, so low prices for used cars, and the cars of the 60ies and 70ies had bigger rust-problems. The worst rusty cars were made after the winter 1973/74 up to ca.1978/79. Many of them were crushed in the age of 5-6 years.
I remember scrap-yard-visits in 1987 and 1988, there were some 6-7-year old Skoda's, Lada's, but also Fiat's an Renault's.
France was known -for German old-car-freaks- as a paradise until they had founded a TÜV-like technical test.
In Sweden there were also many old cars on the road, until (in a year after 2000/2001 - @atom? ) the government has also offered a kind of wrecking-bonus.
Sweden had for a long time the reputation of the "Europe's best scrap-yard-county")
In Italy many old Fiat's were used (in the more humid countries they have rusted much faster
. I remember a school-trip to Roma in autumn 1989. There the Fiat 500 was the most seen car there. More than a 126, a 127 or a Panda.