just since last week the german government had started such project again.

if you buy a brand new car -or a "jahreswagen", a car not older than one year, you will get 2500 euro from the government, if you gave a car for wrecking, which is minimum 9 years old and was for minimum 1 year registrated on your personal name.

there is still a public discussion, if these old cars shal be crushed or if they should be recycled in pieces. but they should not be coming on the road again and shall not be exported (as actually 80 percent of the used cars in germany).

this "abwrackprämie"-idea was founded to do something against the economy-crisis, mainly the crisis of the car-companies. not only in the usa, also over here, the car-dealers are overloaded with new and used cars, which they cannot sell any more.
indeed, if you go along the dealers over here, they let their cars standing on the grass besides they shops, some dealer even had rented parking-lots in the neighbourhood to store their cars.

two weeks ago i was wondering, why a parking of a big household-electro-market was smaller than before. the mecedes-dealer next door took one third of the parking-space to put his brand new cars there.


anyways, even these 2500 euro from the government will not initiate, that i will give aways my omega for scrapping. the k 70 naturally neither.