I know this topic has been beat to death, but I thought you might like to watch the carnage. There are others that last only a few seconds, but this S80 Volvo with a turbo I-6 (How is that a "clunker"?) lasts over 4 minuites on the Goverments' killer diet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waj2KrKYTZo&NR=1

I don't care what any enviromentalist says, we are really an arrogant country taking perfectly good, working automobiles and intentionally killing them. Maybe we need this recession to hit "those people" a little harder yet.

 

the clunkers are still on the road. we are a nation of waste. another government screwup

 

Rob Bell offers perspective on this (years before this failed program).

Pay attention to the very first Stastic he states:

http://video.google.com/videosearch?...en&emb=0&aq=f#

And yes, I saw a family struggling (very hard) to get thier '79 Pontiac Gran Prix to start up tonight...I sounded like it might blow up....How about dealing with the REAL clunkers/problems. Not just a weathly man's car with too many miles on it (the Volvo, even with 200k on it was still worth 3k on it's own).

 

IMO all this did was offer the Big 3 another bail out; this time it includes the general public more than the last one did.

I don't know how some of these were classified as clunkers and others weren't, and it destroyed tons of good engines that could be used for parts. But then again, I used to have a '88 Dodge Colt that was getting 27 MPG and got rid of it before I moved to Idaho.


Kris

 

This is so stupid. I went and looked at some other videos. Now I'm just PO'd

 

it would not have been bad if they (the gubment) had stated that the cars purchased were only from the big 3 but the majority of them were jap cars. Kinda helped out the foriegn market and not our own.

 

I won't look at it. All that stupid idea of a program did was force people into debt that normally wouldn't be there. In a year when all those folks can't make those payments on those new cars, what's going to have to happen then?

 

Brought a tear to my eye watchin some of those engines being destroyed.
Another gubberment FAIL!

 

a buddy of mine is a shop foreman at a local GM dealer and they had an old ford ranger last 8 minutes before keeling over. full throttle, smoking, shaking then died. others only last 10 seconds before passin out to their final death.

 

Yea, I just don't understand. Some REALLY good cars being ruined and everyone gets to pay for it...

 

***? I don't get it, does the program require destroying the old cars? Why doesn't some bright tool with the gub'mint decide to resell the good cars at rock bottom prices and recover some of the cost of the program?

Man, that pisses me off . . . .

 

watched several of the videos. . those guys enjoy the heck out of there job.

 

there was a 2wd cummins in south carolina that i know of that was turned in for the cash for clunkers. ruined a perfectly fine cummins. i about crapped myself when my buddy told me he saw it.

 

Me too...and what I can't understand is why customer's didn't have the option to donate thier vechiles instead of seeing them distroyed. I noted while reviewing those videos a post 2000 (newer body style) Chevy Suburban being killed! I can name off two dozen kids camps in less than 20 seconds that would have LOVED to have been given that Suburban for a support vechile.

What's the point with all this senseless waste...?

 

This is what happens when vehicles get too reliable.
I think it would have been a better deal to unload these cars in some third world country for $5000 each.
The other side of that, the people that traded in their "clunkers" are now back in debt.
Im still debt free on my ride. besides, they were only offering $500 over blue book anyway.