Cash for Clunkers, 4.0 kill video

Darky said:
What? Are you actually retarded? I'm sorry, I'm not even going to go into all the reasons you're an idiot. Just this: NOMINATED!
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well you made a mistake in nominations TWICE. One on Nov 4th and one yesterday.
 
YELLAHEEP said:
I know a family basically living out of an old '75 Caprice........ Now THAT carb'd V8 is a polluting clunker....... I'd love to have seen them get any of those SUV's they destroyed. Safer, more efficient than their current POS..........

Unbelievable.
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See that's the whole part of this program that I don't understand. All those old junkers, that are not going to become classics and people can't get rid of them.
Instead lets trade in a perfect safe, good MPG and well running Volvo and have it destroyed.
 
We don't have to worry about any classics being scrapped as the program doesn't apply to vehicles over 25 years old. I imagine SEMA did some lobbying for that.

The problem is the people that do drive the real clunkers can't afford a new car. From the pictures I have seen the trades they are getting are perfectly good cars but the book value has gone to crap on them. If I was on the fence about buying a new car and my $2000 car became worth $4500 I would jump on it.
 
That Volvo vid was a little depressing. I see a lot of nice cars that would make somebody very happy to have, not everybody can afford a car payment on a new car even after the $4500. What happens if the dealers don't "kill" the cars? And what happens if a person who trades there car in find out they can no longer afford the payments or the higher insurance?
 
The bottom line is Obama is just using our money to help the Car manufactures. The program sucks, along with every other Obama program so far. And I work in a Dealership!
 
Renix FTW :)
 
plymatt65 said:
I guess not.... I just heard this morning tha lawmakers are looking for ways to fund the "popular" program with 2 to 3 billion more of our money.
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They just want to make it look like everything this guy touches is gold.
 
So it' going to cost 3x what the original plan was? Hmmm...sounds promising for other plans.
 
Makes me proud of the 4.0
 
BlueCuda said:
I assume this was a 4.0 by looking at the trim level on the WJ.

Kinda sad but she put up a good fight!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjBilHH5z2A
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igotanxj said:
This is pretty sad..

I guess the way I try to make sense of it all is comparing it to dogs. I love dogs and I wish everybody did as much as I do, but in the end, the animal shelters are full of strays, and you just can't save them all; hundreds get euthanized every day no matter how many you may try to save.
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But atleast the dogs are put to "sleep", this seemed more like slitting the throat and watching the dog writh in pain until it dies:smsoap:
 
Wow that is SAD. I'm sure this guy is driving around in his Prius saying wtf was I thinking
 
FordGuy said:
The Volvo was perfect! It even had nav that popped up out of the dash!
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WTH??!?! They are crushing cars waaay nicer than anything i will ever drive.

To sum this cash for clunkers program up:
"Lets blow up old shit to make people buy new shit!!"
 
Red Rock-It Racing said:
...On Topic, and Jeep FTW :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XnGNiL6fGo&NR=1
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This car appears to be in better shape than mine and three others in town.

Like a lot of others, a new car payment is not possible at my current pay - and lots of people in this corner of the state are in the same boat. Pay parity is 79% of the national average, cost of living 84%. Cash for clunkers is what you can afford each week at the used car lot.

Lots complain that the government should have included older cars. Rather than spend 3 billion dollars so the middle class can have a new car, why not simply require new cars to have a maximum 2.5 liter motor.

Ooohhhh, but the people who donate money won't have any to give to Congress - because the middle class would have continued to drive their 12mpg SUV's and foreign sedans. Can't have that.

Of course, by the time this program is terminated, a few thousand Cherokees will be destroyed, and a lot of recyclable parts ruined - plus more cars manufactured at the expense of more fuel burned for power to make the new parts for new vehicles.

On the issue of using less power in one's lifetime - a total lifetime carbon footprint, so to speak, who uses more resources and energy - a car owner who owns two or three cars in their life, or one who buys one every three to five years for a life usage of 8, 10, 15 cars?

We're subsidizing a short time economic solution to promote a long term increase in expense and resources. Again, if we want to save gas, buy small engined cars.

Obviously that's not the real concern. It's all about votes.
 
Just watched a jeep nicer than any vehicles I own get blown up. I am sick to my stomach from this.

I heard a report of A 2 door 97 XJ and a clean 4wd Auto MJ in the trade in lot scheduled to be ruined. buck ofama.
 
theres an clean 02 liberty on my lot at work scheduled for blow up tomorrow :(
 
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