This weekend I viewed a small Mazda car on display in a Guildford mall. When I expressed interest in the automatic version on show and on trading in my wife's old Ford Fiesta, I was advised that scrappage was not allowed as the automatic version is built in Japan and consequently the scrappage deal is not applicable. I had never heard before that the deal was only applicable to EU manufactured cars (though must admit that I can agree with this rule if it really applies). I must have missed something and wonder about the truth of this. The Mazda website says the scheme applies to all Mazda cars so maybe the salesperson got it wrong.