Isn't somebody else gonna be driving most of those trade ins in?

Amen!

We go to buy a car and trade in our "clunker" and what do we get?

Another bill to pay off at an inflated interest rate and we are only "allowed" to select certain vehicles, and surely not a good used one.

I'd say it was win-win for banks and car dealers, not the American people.

Interesting.

if they are driving those trade ins then we could easily say there was fraud because they are supposed to be destroyed after all the good parts are removed. Yes the dealerships (few of them) did good but they needed to be employed and making money and that worked as was planned. Some of the cars look ok but they were still gas guzzlers. I asked the EPA and was told my 1985 car was not a gas guzzler and that it didn't fit into the program. So it's not an age thing.

Personally I think the President wants to put a program in place to check cars for emissions so they could bring in some more money to pay the government's bills. They used to have that emissions check here in the past but not presently. And they knew that too many people would have to upgrade their cars and couldn't or wouldn't have the money to do so. So to solve that they attempted to get those bad cars off the road. The problem is is that there are still old cars out there that have emissions problems and will still cost the poor a bundle, or not get fixed and still be on the road.

The list of bad cars came out on Yahoo today...the 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 Ford Explorer, Jeep Grand Cherokee and Jeep Cherokee, 1997 Ford Windstar and 1999 Dodge Caravan. Those are some of the worst ones that went to the dealerships.

The ones people are buying to replace them are: Ford Focus, Honda Civic, Toyota Corolla, Prius and Camry, the Ford Escape, Dodge Caliber, Hyundai Elantra, Honda Fit an Chevy Cobalt.

Ford has benefited from this the most according to the newspaper. The number one selling car in the program is the Ford Focus. Most of the cars are Japanese, though and that kind of bums me out. I heard that they could not legally say that an American car had to be purchased. Personally, I don't know how someone could use the program and live with themselves after picking a foreign car.

The trade-ins are to be destroyed. If I know car dealers, and I do, the consumer is going to get a royal screwing and the dealers will enjoy a exceptional high profit margin on every vehicle sold in this program.

The cash for clunkers punishes people who have been buying fuel efficient cars for decades. Those who chose to buy the big gas guzzling cars now get to use tax payers money to help buy a new car. I would much rather my tax dollars be put to other use. I'm tired of my money being used to bailout everyone but me.

The "clunkers" will be given a decent burial in "Clunker Heaven." They will end up in a scrap yard somewhere. The program is okay in some ways, but who can afford a car payment in this day & age, even after the allowances are figured in?

No, they will be destroyed. I understand that the government is refusing to release the figures concerning which cars are being bought with the cash. Apparently, most of them are foreign made. I am so glad that my tax dollars are helping out the folks in Korea and Germany.

Well - - - part of the deal is that the engines and transmission must be filled with an epoxy-glue-like substance that totally trashes the engine and transmission. THEN, the bodies have to be crushed. This guarantees that nobody make any profit by selling the vehicles "for parts". their ONLY use will be as scrap, for like $20 a ton.

I don't think that anyone is going to be driving them . . . ..

They have run out of money twice now I don't think they are going to go for a third run through.., and who wants another payment to all the other payments they have to make every month, mortgage, electriic, gas, cable, water, sewer, garbage and credit cards.. rather drive the clunker!

You are correct. Stupid program designed to look like someone cares about the environment. Also, to make Chrysler and GM look good a couple of years from now when they finally go under for good.