Vauxhall launches £3,000 swappage scheme

Vauxhall is offering customers at least £3,000 for trade-ins aged over seven years on a selection of new cars from now until the end of March.

The carmaker has called its scheme Vauxhall Swappage, Toyota starting using the same term last month, and can be used to buy the recently launched Astra five-door, Astra Sport Hatches and most new Corsa models.

No age limit

Vauxhall said the scheme will only apply to customers with a car which is at least seven years old and is covered by insurance, road tax and MoT. Vauxhall said it would not impose an upper age limit on the used car would accept cars from customers who had only owned it for 90 days.

"We're determined that our customers will continue to enjoy excellent offers as the government's scrappage scheme comes to an end," said Rory Harvey, Vauxhall's retail sales director.

"Vauxhall Swappage not only increases the amount of discount off selected Vauxhalls from £2,000 to at least £3,000, but it also widens the net to cars over seven years old, compared with 10 years plus in the old, government-backed scheme."