Press Office
Media & press enquiries
We respond to journalists directly. If you're working to a deadline, call: we'd rather take the call than miss the story.
SpokespersonSteve Queen, FounderAvailable for comment, interview and background briefing on scrappage, vehicle values and the UK end-of-life vehicle market. We aim to respond to media enquiries within two working hours.
Our data
We hold twelve years of collection records covering every vehicle scrapped through our network. It is one of the few continuous UK datasets on what actually reaches the end of the road, and we publish from it.
962,630vehicles collected since August 2014
18 yearstypical age at scrappage, up from 13 in 2014
£213mpaid to vehicle owners
The Million Car Study →
Journalists and researchers are welcome to use these figures with a link to the study as the source. We can produce bespoke breakdowns by model, region, age or year on request, usually within two working hours.
As featured in
As featured in
CoventryLive
I started with an advert in the Cov Tel and now I've scrapped almost a million cars
In 2008, Steve Queen had a burgundy Vauxhall Cavalier he wanted rid of. He did what anyone did back then: found a scrap man in the back of the Coventry Telegraph and rang him, expecting to pay to have the thing taken away. The man offered him twenty pounds. The Cavalier was collected within the hour, and Queen was delighted — until he learned the car had been worth more than two hundred. Scrap was a closed world then: no listed prices, just a man with a recovery truck naming a…
Read the article →The founder's story, September 2026
What we can comment on
Age of the UK fleet · how long cars now last, why it is rising, and what the records show at both ends of a car's life.
Scrap car prices · what drivers are actually paid, how it varies by region, and how values track metal markets.
Which cars last longest · survival by make and model, drawn from twelve years of collections.
Vehicle recycling · how the process works, depollution, and the 95% recovery and 85% recycling targets facilities must meet.
UK and EU regulation · the end-of-life vehicle framework, Certificates of Destruction, and Environment Agency permitting.
Clean air zones and ULEZ · observed effects on where and when vehicles are scrapped.
Consumer protection · scrapping a car legally, avoiding unauthorised operators, and DVLA obligations.
About Remove My Car
Remove My Car is a UK vehicle recycling and scrap car collection service operating nationally through a network of around 200 licensed Authorised Treatment Facilities. Founded in Coventry around 2009 as one of the first UK services to quote for scrap cars online, it has kept full collection records since August 2014, covering 962,630 vehicles across England, Scotland and Wales and over £200 million paid to their owners.
The company is rated 4.9 out of 5 from more than 13,000 verified customer reviews. The founder's story: Steve Queen, from a £20 Cavalier to almost a million cars.
For your files
Boilerplate. Remove My Car is a UK vehicle recycling network working with around 200 licensed Authorised Treatment Facilities. It has arranged the collection of almost one million end-of-life vehicles since 2014, more than 40,000 in the last year, and holds over 17,000 verified customer reviews across Feefo and Trustpilot.
Spokesperson. Steve Queen, Founder. Available for comment and interview.
Assets. Spokesperson photograph, 1200px (download) · full resolution on request · logo pack (PNG and SVG) on request · chart and data graphics from the Million Car Study, free to use with attribution. Photographers are welcome at one of our recycling sites by arrangement.
Data requests. Bespoke breakdowns by model, region, age or year: [email protected]
