Comments on: What cars are the best deals under the cash for clunkers bill? http://researchdeck.com/research/what-cars-are-the-best-deals-under-the-cash-for-clunkers-bill/ Your Source for Online Research Material Sun, 02 Aug 2009 10:52:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Stupid Flanders http://researchdeck.com/research/what-cars-are-the-best-deals-under-the-cash-for-clunkers-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-105 Stupid Flanders Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:47:59 +0000 http://researchdeck.com/research/what-cars-are-the-best-deals-under-the-cash-for-clunkers-bill/#comment-105 First of all, this bill has not passed the Senate so you can't go out and trade in your clunker today and expect the full amount. New cars/trucks in the cash for clunkers don't have to be high MPG. Not sure where you heard that, but this was one of the big objections of the congress men/women that voted against it. Depreciation has nothing to do with this bill. Consumers would get $4,500 vouchers if the new car they are buying gets 10 miles-a-gallon better gas mileage than the model they are trading in. For light trucks, the improvement must be 5 mpg better than the older model, and for large light trucks, 2 mpg. For a $3,500 voucher, the improvement for cars must be 4 mpg or better, for light trucks, 2 mpg, and for large light trucks, 1 mpg. The trade-in vehicle must be no older than a 1984 model and get 18 mpg or less in combined city/highway fuel economy. New passenger cars purchased with the vouchers must get at least 22 mpg in city/highway fuel economy, light trucks must get at least 18 mpg, and large light trucks 15 mpg. Domestic as well as foreign models sold in the U.S. qualify. www.edmunds.com will help you with the other questions. They have a section called 'true cost to own'.<br><b>References : </b><br> First of all, this bill has not passed the Senate so you can’t go out and trade in your clunker today and expect the full amount.

New cars/trucks in the cash for clunkers don’t have to be high MPG.
Not sure where you heard that, but this was one of the big objections of the congress men/women that voted against it.

Depreciation has nothing to do with this bill.

Consumers would get $4,500 vouchers if the new car they are buying gets 10 miles-a-gallon better gas mileage than the model they are trading in. For light trucks, the improvement must be 5 mpg better than the older model, and for large light trucks, 2 mpg.

For a $3,500 voucher, the improvement for cars must be 4 mpg or better, for light trucks, 2 mpg, and for large light trucks, 1 mpg. The trade-in vehicle must be no older than a 1984 model and get 18 mpg or less in combined city/highway fuel economy.

New passenger cars purchased with the vouchers must get at least 22 mpg in city/highway fuel economy, light trucks must get at least 18 mpg, and large light trucks 15 mpg. Domestic as well as foreign models sold in the U.S. qualify.

http://www.edmunds.com will help you with the other questions. They have a section called ‘true cost to own’.
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