<br />
ONLINE WEEKLY<br />
MOTORTRADER<br />
ISSUE 24 THE VOICE OF THE CAR RETAILING SECTOR 5 OCTOBER 2009<br />
<br />
Car sector welcomes<br />
scrappage extension<br />
<br />
<br />
Extra £100m will help boost confidence<br />
in the sector and grow showroom traffic<br />
<br />
Curtis Hutchinson<br />
<br />
<br />
THE car industry moved<br />
quickly to welcome the<br />
surprise extension to the<br />
government's car scrappage<br />
scheme.<br />
The announcement by<br />
business secretary Lord<br />
Mandelson took place at the<br />
Labour Party Conference in<br />
Brighton (28 September). It<br />
took many in the industry<br />
by surprise especially as<br />
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