FIAT's sales director, Andrew Sprosten, asserted that BSM is obtaining "no discount" on the FIAT 500s being sold to it. And, because the cars cannot legally be bought back from BSM by FIAT on favourable terms, FIAT will be paying "full CAP Trade Price" for them when they come off the BSM fleet for re-sale by FIAT dealers. BSM will not be paying "list price" for the cars because they have to be pre-fitted with dual controls, which will then be removed before the cars are re-sold. And of course, because these are 'VAT qualifying cars', there will be a small benefit from reclaiming the input VAT, then charging and repaying VAT on a smaller amount on disposal. The way the deal is structured, it should not detrimentally affect residual values of FIAT 500s generally, other than by the volume of used 500s it makes available against demand for them, which itself will affect the CAP Trade Price. The £500 discount on 500s being offered to young drivers who have learned to drive with BSM is actually less than the £2,000 discount currently being obtained by private buyers using the scrappage scheme. But to avoid possible drivetrain trouble I think buyers of used 500s will prefer to find a private owner’s name on the V5C rather than an organisation that might have been fronting for BSM.