Top 10 Traded Vehicles Of The "cash For Clunkers" Program

LawmanSS · August 4, 2009

The gov't released trade-in/sales statistics about the "Cash for Clunkers" program:

One particular vehicle stands out in the list. Another point of note, the majority of the purchased vehicles came from foreign manufacturers.

BuckFeverZ · August 4, 2009

I just looked at that too.

rvsahs · August 4, 2009

Must be the right time to get rid of those Exploders....

Shrek · August 4, 2009

I cant vouch for the Explorers/Cherokee trades. I work at a dealer & we have traded about 15 explorers & 6-7 cherokees

see if you can find them

WilliamBos · August 4, 2009

And see what they are buying?? Well., at least our trucks are not on the top 10.

Nick The Great · August 5, 2009

Thats HILARIOUS

WilliamBos · August 5, 2009

Where were these taken??

I cant vouch for the Explorers/Cherokee trades. I work at a dealer & we have traded about 15 explorers & 6-7 cherokees

see if you can find them

nbscanuck · August 5, 2009

6 of the top 10 are Ford Exploders. That's too funny.

Matt_ · August 5, 2009

Something seems weird about that list... are they saying that each model year of those explorers was so significant that they could count them seperately, but the jeep grand cherokee and cherokees are the total of all of their years?

This could also mean that there are so many explorers out there because they were the #1 selling SUV during that time, and they're the only ones still on the road available for trade since all the Chevy's are broken down

thecraft · August 5, 2009

I cant vouch for the Explorers/Cherokee trades. I work at a dealer & we have traded about 15 explorers & 6-7 cherokees

see if you can find them

Please don't tell me someone brought in that OBS Denali on the right.

LawmanSS · August 5, 2009

My guess is that the vehicles with CARS painted on the windows are the clunker program trade-ins.

P71_CrownVic · August 5, 2009

I can hear Mike Rowe now:

"People ask me Why Ford? Why Now?

The answer is simple, here at Ford, we build more clunkers than any other manufacturer..."

And in case anyone was wondering, C4C has NOT run out of money:

Official Department of Transportation stats as of 4:00 p.m. on Monday, August 3, 2009.

Dealer Registrations:

Number Submitted - 24,238

Number Approved - 20,495

Dealer Transactions:

Number Submitted - 133,767

Dollars Submitted - $563.8 million

http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/more-evid...un-out-of-cash/

Draenor · August 6, 2009

I cant vouch for the Explorers/Cherokee trades. I work at a dealer & we have traded about 15 explorers & 6-7 cherokees

see if you can find them

Please don't tell me someone brought in that OBS Denali on the right.

I thought the same thing.

Z45 · August 6, 2009

Just a little thing I noticed. Last night we drove by the local GM dealer and saw the clunkers. I counted 11 at this small town dealer. Only 2 were Chevys, (early 90's Tahoes), the rest were Dodge and Fords, I saw 1 Exploder, 3 Ford Vans and a couple Dodge trucks/ vans and a Town car. All were heavily rusted and 2 Dodges had plows.

So we took a ride to the Furd dealer and they had about 16 vehicles marked at clunkers. There was no GM vehicle, 3 Dodge big vans and the rest were all Fords, some Lincolns, big Ford Vans and beat up Ford PU's. So for this dealer its Ford customers buying Fords. The GM dealer was getting converts.

With all the clunkers it would be interesting to know how many switched brands and how many just bought the same brand albeit a newer car.

Also as one salesman told me (I know him) many are dumping the 2nd vehicle i.e, winter beater.