The Car Advizor

The car market in America woke up 2 months ago and had an energy drink named Cash for Clunkers (actually CARS).  While the initial effects of this stimulus were higher car sales for ailing dealerships, what do they do now to stay ALIVE?
The president of a dealership chain told me yesterday, “I’m really worried about [...]

I’m sure we’ve all heard of the cash for clunkers program by now. The US Government put $3 billion out there so we could get rebates on more fuel efficient cars. But running such a massive program wasn’t free. In fact, the total cost of overseeing this operation has just recently broken the $100 billion [...]

In June Congress voted to become car dealers, people began to worry that $3,500 to $4,500 was not going to be enough to attract many takers.  Well guess what 2 months later it might have been to good to be true.
This bill had people scrambling to the dealerships to turn in their SUV’s and Trucks in [...]

At the end of last week, the “Cash for Clunkers” was said to have ran out of money.  And the news spread like wild fire. Under the policy titled “Cash for Clunkers”, consumers who owned a vehicle with low fuel efficiency can receive from $3,500 to $4,500 from the federal government if they buy a new [...]

Here is the latest update on the ‘cash for clunkers’ bill that is in Congress right now.  If you are not familiar with the program, it is a stimulus package aimed at giving you money for your older vehicles that quite honestly are not getting the best of gas mileage.  Please read the previous article ‘Get [...]