... . I downloaded and played with it a bit. You need to be cautious because there's some data strangeness in there, such as multiple clunker odometer readings of 9,999,999 miles, and clunkers whose model year is listed as 2008, but here&# ... in by model year, which just makes all the more obvious that I missed a golden opportunity to trade in my 1995 Saturn. Turns out 1995 was the peak clunker year.

... is the only leverage the West realistically has left. We've seen this situation before, in Iraq in 2006/08. However, for the moment, the U.S. and U.K. governments are too afraid of the political blowback domestically to properly wield the only political stick they have. Which means the new Afghan Compact is a clunker that should be traded in before it costs us even more blood and treasure.

If you traded in a clunker worth $3500, you get $4500 off for an apparent "savings" of $1000. However, you have to pay taxes on the $4500 come April 15th (something that no auto Dealer will tell you). If you are in the 30% Tax bracket, you will pay $1350 on that $4500. So, rather than save $1000, you actually pay an Extra $350 to the feds. In addition, you traded in a car that was most ...

... be attributed to the Cash for Clunkers program. The motivation for selling cars under the Cash for Clunkers program was to get up to $4,500 in rebates to trade in a less fuel-efficient “clunker” for a new vehicle that met certain fuel economy standards. This was intended both as a way to jumpstart the sagging automotive sector and to improve vehicle emissions across the country. Based on ...

Vehicle history provider Carfax has partnered with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to introduce a new Clunker Check service. The simple Carfax query page allows you, merely by entering the vehicle identification number (VIN) of the suspect vehicle to check whether it was written off for salvage as part of the federal ..

Automotive News reports that the Senate has passed a $2 billion extension to the Cash for Clunkers program, extending the deal through Labor Day. President Obama has already said he would sign the bill. But will it help the taxpayer-owned auto firms that desperately need a boost? Will sales levels continue at their current surging rates? Will fraud stories start popping up as they have in Germany ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Billed as a way for the government to put more fuel-efficient vehicles on highways, the popular $3 billion Cash for Clunkers program mostly involved swaps of old Ford or Chevrolet pickups for new ones that got only marginally better gas mileage, according to an analysis of new federal data by The Associated Press.

Latest move from the Experian AutoCheck program now indicates if the vehicle you are thinking of buying was traded in under Cash for Clunkers and should help many bad credit car loan buyers Used cars and bad credit auto loans At Auto Credit Express, we’ve spent close to twenty years focusing on consumers with bad credit and

The government has released final Cash for Clunkers numbers–so far I’ve glanced through the summary and additional statistics. And one stat I did not know was that the average age for the Clunkers turned in was almost 15 years, and the average odometer reading was over 160,000 miles. (Click the graphic below to be able to read it.) In other words, these really were Clunkers. The ...

The Pros and Cons of Appliance Cash for Clunkers As a part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the Obama administration is rewarding consumers who purchase energy-efficient appliances with a program called the State Energy Efficient Appliance Rebate Program. The program is offering rebates of up to $200 for the purchase of energy