We made the Clunker list

[handeeman]

Yes... the rules say you have to be able to drive it into the dealership, and you have to have owned it for 1 year to avoid fraud.

And You have to prove you have had it insured for the past year. registered in your name.

[circmand]

If 10 years is too old why do they have older Jags and other cars?

[Hotsauce]

This in addition to or instead of the book value trade in we'd normaly get?

John C.

[circmand]

the 2500 to 4500 is totak you can expect to receive. The vehicles are to be taken out of circulation so there is no trade in value since they cannot resell.

[rowhard]

so would my 89 F150 trash hauler qualify? It looks like $%!^ and runs worst?

[iamironman]

This in addition to or instead of the book value trade in we'd normaly get?

John C.

If you could get more than $4500 (max on this program) why wouldn't you? That would keep free the funds for people that don't have a car/truck worth more than $4500.

[don moore]

it has to be own by the person trading it in for atleast 1 year and to be insured for that year ...and after the deal it must become scrap.. and sent for scraping//and not to be on the road again.

[don moore]

after working a major car center years ago ...I got a kick out of this cash for clunkers thing ..because dealers mark up the cars so much ...all you are doing is giving them a tax credit and they sell there cars for profit.. you get nothing..

when you see the tag it will say suggested manufactured retail price?? think about it ....suggested.. when the last time you got some thing for that ..most of the time things say ..SMRP.10.00. but you pay.7.99....then they add stuff like tires and radio and stripes.. and stuff.. and add them to the suggested price ..and add something like a ADM.. additional dealer markup..additional?.. wait you mean the SMRP is with a markup..hehe yup...plus the add ons are stuff that already on the car ..but you dont get them.. they took that stuff off to put on the extra stuff. on.then charge you for the new stuff also. the price includes the old stuff thats not on there.......lol.. now ..they are going to give you a cash for your clunker rebate...........

thanks for listening.... spelling might be off..

I buy cars for my friends ...the dealers ..see me and send the new car sales guys my way...lol

[vt_maverick]

after working a major car center years ago ...I got a kick out of this cash for clunkers thing ..because dealers mark up the cars so much ...all you are doing is giving them a tax credit and they sell there cars for profit.. you get nothing..

when you see the tag it will say suggested manufactured retail price?? think about it ....suggested.. when the last time you got some thing for that ..most of the time things say ..SMRP.10.00. but you pay.7.99....then they add stuff like tires and radio and stripes.. and stuff.. and add them to the suggested price ..and add something like a ADM.. additional dealer markup..additional?.. wait you mean the SMRP is with a markup..hehe yup...plus the add ons are stuff that already on the car ..but you dont get them.. they took that stuff off to put on the extra stuff. on.then charge you for the new stuff also. the price includes the old stuff thats not on there.......lol.. now ..they are going to give you a cash for your clunker rebate...........

thanks for listening.... spelling might be off..

I buy cars for my friends ...the dealers ..see me and send the new car sales guys my way...lol

Speaking of... I CAN'T WAIT to see this movie:

http://www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=36653

[vt_maverick]

it has to be own by the person trading it in for atleast 1 year and to be insured for that year ...and after the deal it must become scrap.. and sent for scraping//and not to be on the road again.

That seems incredibly wasteful to me. Removing perfectly fine cars from the road to crunch them and/or bury their parts-stripped remains in a landfill?

Oh I forgot - selling more fuel efficient cars will someday make up for it.

[iamironman]

That seems incredibly wasteful to me. Removing perfectly fine cars from the road to crunch them and/or bury their parts-stripped remains in a landfill?

Oh I forgot - selling more fuel efficient cars will someday make up for it.

Actually, there was a show on I think discovery channel , on recycling, and it's something like 60% of cars in scrap yards get recycled into materials for new cars and 36% gets recycled into non auto materials and only about 4% gets sent to landfills as it is unrecyclable material... The 250,000 cars this $1 billion dollars is supposed to buy is supposed to save like 1 trillion dollars in oil over a 8-10 year period... because of taking off the road 18mpg (and less) cars, and because the minimum car that replaces it has to have a minimum of 5mpg better gas (than the ceiling of 18mpg) consumption. The more cars traded in that make less than 18mpg and the more cars bought that get more than 23mpg, the bigger the savings in oil spending over the years. That was from some "expert" making commentary on CNBC...

[iamironman]

And You have to prove you have had it insured for the past year. registered in your name.

Oh, one more thing... you can't owe anything on it either.. the title has to be free and clear. No scams of sticking it to the banks, title loan company's (which are scams unto themselves anyways.. and I do see a way around this to screw a title loan co out of their 288% interest... )