Too good to scrap: Some cars are being scrapped that really don't deserve such a fate. If you've got one of these, keep it alive

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IT'S OFFICIAL: if you want the great British public to lose any semblance of good sense and go bonkers, all it takes is a whiff of political correctness, a flood of public opinion and two thousand of Her Majesty's pounds. We've got the proof. We asked Ford, VW, Citroen and Hyundai about the kind of cars that people have been trading in under the UK's used car scrappage scheme, expecting them to be galactically leggy repmobiles, rusty 40×4s and clapped-out superminis.