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June 19, 2009 at 9:35 AM #418107June 19, 2009 at 10:28 AM #417441
CoronitaParticipantIt wouldn’t have made one difference imho.
Hello auto industry…We’re in the a recession.
A good portion of people that use to buy cars can’t afford to buy a car outright. They buy on credit/lease, and live paycheck to paycheck (literally and figuratively speaking)….It works when credit is easy and there’s a paycheck coming in….Doesn’t work so well when credit is tighter and doesn’t work so well if the paycheck goes awol…Definitely doesn’t go well when you have a combo of the two….
Having a new car is a “nice to have”, not a necessity.
That’s the problem with the auto industry right now. Too many companies still producing too many cars for too few of people who are able and willing to buy a new car….Kinda like the glut of homes our RE builders are facing. Except cars usually have some sort of brand loyalty going on.
There’s no point in throwing more money at the problem to produce more cars if the demand isn’t there.
June 19, 2009 at 10:28 AM #417674CoronitaParticipantIt wouldn’t have made one difference imho.
Hello auto industry…We’re in the a recession.
A good portion of people that use to buy cars can’t afford to buy a car outright. They buy on credit/lease, and live paycheck to paycheck (literally and figuratively speaking)….It works when credit is easy and there’s a paycheck coming in….Doesn’t work so well when credit is tighter and doesn’t work so well if the paycheck goes awol…Definitely doesn’t go well when you have a combo of the two….
Having a new car is a “nice to have”, not a necessity.
That’s the problem with the auto industry right now. Too many companies still producing too many cars for too few of people who are able and willing to buy a new car….Kinda like the glut of homes our RE builders are facing. Except cars usually have some sort of brand loyalty going on.
There’s no point in throwing more money at the problem to produce more cars if the demand isn’t there.
June 19, 2009 at 10:28 AM #417939CoronitaParticipantIt wouldn’t have made one difference imho.
Hello auto industry…We’re in the a recession.
A good portion of people that use to buy cars can’t afford to buy a car outright. They buy on credit/lease, and live paycheck to paycheck (literally and figuratively speaking)….It works when credit is easy and there’s a paycheck coming in….Doesn’t work so well when credit is tighter and doesn’t work so well if the paycheck goes awol…Definitely doesn’t go well when you have a combo of the two….
Having a new car is a “nice to have”, not a necessity.
That’s the problem with the auto industry right now. Too many companies still producing too many cars for too few of people who are able and willing to buy a new car….Kinda like the glut of homes our RE builders are facing. Except cars usually have some sort of brand loyalty going on.
There’s no point in throwing more money at the problem to produce more cars if the demand isn’t there.
June 19, 2009 at 10:28 AM #418002CoronitaParticipantIt wouldn’t have made one difference imho.
Hello auto industry…We’re in the a recession.
A good portion of people that use to buy cars can’t afford to buy a car outright. They buy on credit/lease, and live paycheck to paycheck (literally and figuratively speaking)….It works when credit is easy and there’s a paycheck coming in….Doesn’t work so well when credit is tighter and doesn’t work so well if the paycheck goes awol…Definitely doesn’t go well when you have a combo of the two….
Having a new car is a “nice to have”, not a necessity.
That’s the problem with the auto industry right now. Too many companies still producing too many cars for too few of people who are able and willing to buy a new car….Kinda like the glut of homes our RE builders are facing. Except cars usually have some sort of brand loyalty going on.
There’s no point in throwing more money at the problem to produce more cars if the demand isn’t there.
June 19, 2009 at 10:28 AM #418164CoronitaParticipantIt wouldn’t have made one difference imho.
Hello auto industry…We’re in the a recession.
A good portion of people that use to buy cars can’t afford to buy a car outright. They buy on credit/lease, and live paycheck to paycheck (literally and figuratively speaking)….It works when credit is easy and there’s a paycheck coming in….Doesn’t work so well when credit is tighter and doesn’t work so well if the paycheck goes awol…Definitely doesn’t go well when you have a combo of the two….
Having a new car is a “nice to have”, not a necessity.
That’s the problem with the auto industry right now. Too many companies still producing too many cars for too few of people who are able and willing to buy a new car….Kinda like the glut of homes our RE builders are facing. Except cars usually have some sort of brand loyalty going on.
There’s no point in throwing more money at the problem to produce more cars if the demand isn’t there.
June 19, 2009 at 10:53 AM #417475Zeitgeist
ParticipantCrushing the cars rather than reselling them is an interesting part of the equation. Old cars are being eliminated from the car gene pool. Older cars can be worked on at home because many of them do not have computers. Maybe this is being done not just to stimulate the economy or clean up the environment, but to get rid of things without computer chips in them. What did you do with that tinfoil TG? What say you Partypup?
June 19, 2009 at 10:53 AM #417710ParticipantCrushing the cars rather than reselling them is an interesting part of the equation. Old cars are being eliminated from the car gene pool. Older cars can be worked on at home because many of them do not have computers. Maybe this is being done not just to stimulate the economy or clean up the environment, but to get rid of things without computer chips in them. What did you do with that tinfoil TG? What say you Partypup?
June 19, 2009 at 10:53 AM #417975ParticipantCrushing the cars rather than reselling them is an interesting part of the equation. Old cars are being eliminated from the car gene pool. Older cars can be worked on at home because many of them do not have computers. Maybe this is being done not just to stimulate the economy or clean up the environment, but to get rid of things without computer chips in them. What did you do with that tinfoil TG? What say you Partypup?
June 19, 2009 at 10:53 AM #418039ParticipantCrushing the cars rather than reselling them is an interesting part of the equation. Old cars are being eliminated from the car gene pool. Older cars can be worked on at home because many of them do not have computers. Maybe this is being done not just to stimulate the economy or clean up the environment, but to get rid of things without computer chips in them. What did you do with that tinfoil TG? What say you Partypup?
June 19, 2009 at 10:53 AM #418199ParticipantCrushing the cars rather than reselling them is an interesting part of the equation. Old cars are being eliminated from the car gene pool. Older cars can be worked on at home because many of them do not have computers. Maybe this is being done not just to stimulate the economy or clean up the environment, but to get rid of things without computer chips in them. What did you do with that tinfoil TG? What say you Partypup?
July 24, 2009 at 11:20 AM #436195SanDiegoDave
ParticipantBumping this one up and asking a new question.
The government launched the program today. In typical government project planning and display of incompetence, the computer system for it crashed.
But my question revolves around this “scrap value” of the trade-in vehicles. The program states that the dealer must give you a “reasonable estimate” of the scrap value of your car.
Well, I wasn’t born yesterday and there is no way I’m walking into a dealer without some independent knowledge of what my vehicle’s scrap value is.
Does anyone know where to find this info? Google search only turn up places that offer to pick up your “junker” and give you cash. My car is not a junker. But it has poor mileage and thus qualifies for the cash-for-clunkers program. I just need to know how much the scrap is worth without letting the dealer pull a bullsh1t number out of thin air.
July 24, 2009 at 11:20 AM #436402ParticipantBumping this one up and asking a new question.
The government launched the program today. In typical government project planning and display of incompetence, the computer system for it crashed.
But my question revolves around this “scrap value” of the trade-in vehicles. The program states that the dealer must give you a “reasonable estimate” of the scrap value of your car.
Well, I wasn’t born yesterday and there is no way I’m walking into a dealer without some independent knowledge of what my vehicle’s scrap value is.
Does anyone know where to find this info? Google search only turn up places that offer to pick up your “junker” and give you cash. My car is not a junker. But it has poor mileage and thus qualifies for the cash-for-clunkers program. I just need to know how much the scrap is worth without letting the dealer pull a bullsh1t number out of thin air.
July 24, 2009 at 11:20 AM #436720ParticipantBumping this one up and asking a new question.
The government launched the program today. In typical government project planning and display of incompetence, the computer system for it crashed.
But my question revolves around this “scrap value” of the trade-in vehicles. The program states that the dealer must give you a “reasonable estimate” of the scrap value of your car.
Well, I wasn’t born yesterday and there is no way I’m walking into a dealer without some independent knowledge of what my vehicle’s scrap value is.
Does anyone know where to find this info? Google search only turn up places that offer to pick up your “junker” and give you cash. My car is not a junker. But it has poor mileage and thus qualifies for the cash-for-clunkers program. I just need to know how much the scrap is worth without letting the dealer pull a bullsh1t number out of thin air.
July 24, 2009 at 11:20 AM #436793ParticipantBumping this one up and asking a new question.
The government launched the program today. In typical government project planning and display of incompetence, the computer system for it crashed.
But my question revolves around this “scrap value” of the trade-in vehicles. The program states that the dealer must give you a “reasonable estimate” of the scrap value of your car.
Well, I wasn’t born yesterday and there is no way I’m walking into a dealer without some independent knowledge of what my vehicle’s scrap value is.
Does anyone know where to find this info? Google search only turn up places that offer to pick up your “junker” and give you cash. My car is not a junker. But it has poor mileage and thus qualifies for the cash-for-clunkers program. I just need to know how much the scrap is worth without letting the dealer pull a bullsh1t number out of thin air.
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