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We traded in our 91 Cadillac Seville under Cash for Clunkers. We looked at every qualifying car available in our price range for a 2nd vehicle. The problem was US car companies weren't offering anything we could use with 2 kids in car seats. This was the same year Pontiac shut down as well. The caddy we traded in under the program was on its last legs, with a weld on a coolant line that could not be replaced that may or may not have held another minute, day, year.......... we got 4500 for it. Certainly wasn't worth that much
We did. The gov't was dumb enough to roll out the program, so we traded in our clunker for the $4K value against a new 2010 for the wife.
We had let our kid learn to drive in it, but he beat it down and damn near killed it. I sweated driving the old clunker to the dealership, hoping it would make it. But they said the thing wouldn't die when they tried to snuff out the engine per the guidelines. That old van was a beast!
So we got a good deal on a new ride, the kid got a nice hand-me-down, and the gov't got the clunker that they wanted so much. Basically it was the only highlight of a certain persons job over 8 years in DC.
If I wasn't such a nerd about researching used cars and had a clunker instead, I would have jumped on the program. In principle, I don't like the idea of program but they were desperate to keep the auto industry afloat (parts supplier, manufacturer, dealership, distribution, etc). As a car enthusiast, I don't like the idea because (in my opinion) Americans make horrible choices in vehicle selection. Just look at the list of America's top selling manufacturers and models over the years.
One of my uncles traded in his crappy 1999 GM Astro van for a brand new Toyota Highlander. The van had 200K miles and just about everything had broken down on it at some point (transmission, axle, freeze plugs, water pump, etc).
Donated mine to a 'cause'. Worse mistake since six months later i went to the organization to get help from the charity, and they said....ohh we dont help with that. Ours is purely to fund the research for the ailment. Yeah 35 years of research and still no help for the afflicted.
Didn't participate but tried to obtain a 1978 Firebird someone traded in during that period before the engine was destroyed. Dealership told me they weren't allowed to.
Nope sure did not and that is why now used cars are so expensive and pieces of junk because all the good ones went to the comrades in Cuba that a certain person in charge was so eager to gain alliance with .
While some were actual junk, many were perfectly good cars that were destroyed. Just look at YouTube videos about CFC.
Many people here in the US and in 3rd world countries could have used these cars to get to work and put food on the table, but no; these idiots who came up with this program had to destroy them.
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