Absolute scandal in so many ways - one of the objectives was to clear the backlog of cars clogging up ports and storage depots, and all we have now is another huge backlog of cars.
Replacing perfectly roadworthy cars with other perfectly roadworthy cars, sure, that makes a huge amount of sense! And it did nothing to reduce emissions, all the cars taken off the road would produce less than the amount taken to manufacture and run all these new 'cleaner' cars.