Scrappage is just about grinding to a halt and if you look at the figures there have been one or two firms that have seen real benefits from the scheme.

As you might expect, Ford has been up there among the big performers and so, too, has Hyundai. Ford sold almost 33,000 cars under scrappage while Hyundai topped that. For Ford, that accounts for around 10 per cent of its sales while for Hyundai it's massively more than half and a real distortion of its true performance.