Guardian: The European commission yesterday threw its political weight behind industry calls for an EU-wide scheme to offer motorists incentives to take their old cars off the road and buy new fuel-efficient, cleaner models. The commission also urged the European Investment Bank (EIB) to offer up to 40bn (£32bn) in soft loans to help the car industry design new green technologies. The push emerged from a meeting of commissioners, motor industry chief executives, ministers and MEPs to …