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Cash 4 Clunkers: FAIL

Real Cash For Clunkers Sales Figures Show:





2 Full Size Trucks and 2 Medium SUVs make Top Ten sales list





Gosh, it seems the government can’t even add up car sales the way the entire car industry does. Say I buy the base trim of car X. You buy the mid level version. She buys the fancy trim package. The car guys will tell you they sold 3 cars, all model X. The government can’t figure this out, so they count that as 3 different vehicles. Surprised? You shouldn
‘t be. They can’t do honest accounting or reporting of their own budgets or spending. Whatever made you think they could tally up auto sales, even though the entire industry has been doing it this way for nearly 100 years. DUH.

Because of distorted sales figures, Ford’s Escape cross-over SUV, not the Focus small car, tops the list for most popular ‘clunker’ buy.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com)—What are people trading their clunkers in for? It depends on who you ask.

The government’s results showed small cars as the top choice for shoppers looking for Cash for Clunker deals. But an independent analysis by Edmunds.com disputed those results, and showed that two full-size trucks and a small crossover SUV were actually among the top-ten buys.

The discrepancy is a result of the methods used. Edmunds.com uses traditional sales measurements, tallying sales by make and model. The government uses a more arcane measurement method that subdivides models according to engine and transmission types, counting them as separate models.

For example, the Ford Escape is available in six different versions including two- and four-wheel drive and hybrid versions. The government counts each version as a different vehicle using guidelines from the Environmental Protection Agency. Only the front wheel drive, non-hybrid version made the government’s top ten list.

The Ford Escape crossover SUV, instead of being the seventh-most popular vehicle under the program, as the government ranked it, was actually the best seller, according to Edmunds.com. The government pegged the Ford Focus as the top seller.

Trucks tend to be available in more variations than cars. That’s because truck buyers have a wider variety of needs than car buyers, General Motors spokesman Brian Goebel said.

“There’s just so many different uses for the truck, both retail and commercial, than with car purchasers,” he said.

Sales of truck models would tend to be heavily diluted using the government’s method because practically each version counts as a different vehicle. The difference in tallying methods would not affect the overall totals of trucks, as opposed to cars purchased under the program, only the sales rankings of individual models.

Sales of GM’s Silverado truck, under the government’s counting method, were divided among five different versions. So were the Ford F-150s. If the different versions of these trucks were considered the same vehicle, as auto sales are normally reported, sales of these trucks would look much heftier.

In the Cash for Clunkers program, trucks are actually subject to lower fuel economy requirements than cars, so it surprised many analysts that trucks weren’t more popular.




The actual sales leaders, in order, are:

1 - Ford Escape
2 - Ford Focus
3 - Jeep Patriot
4 - Dodge Caliber
5 - Ford F-150
6 - Honda Civic
7 - Chevrolet Silverado
8 - Chevrolet Cobalt
9 - Toyota Corolla
10 - Ford Fusion

Now I wouldn’t go calling a Patriot, a Silverado, or an F-150 high mpg vehicles. Looks like the government screwed up again, and is playing loose with the truth to make it look like we all “went greenish” and switched over to little 2 liter runabouts. Such is not the case at all.


Notice that FORD, the non-government owned car company, garnered not just the 2 top slots, but placed 4 vehicles in the top 10. Nice work.

Now, I haven’t even bothered to look at this C4C deal. I have no money to go buying a car right now. My 12 year old Saturn is still running just fine. Actually, since I replaced those sensors, I’m getting nearly 33mpg on the tankful. And it’s emissions levels are just about zero, same as it’s ever been since the little thing was new.

But the way I understood it, folks were supposed to trade in some old wreck of a vehicle for something new and small that got great gas mileage. So why the heck are full sized trucks even part of this deal? Or 4x4s of any size? Those things don’t get high mpg. But “lower fuel economy requirements than cars”? Oh, tell me this whole fug-schnizzle deal was all about emissions? Oh Please.

Sounds to me like “C4C” was another stupid government idea, passed into law way too fast without much thought. And now it’s just been recharged, to the tune of another $2 Billion we don’t have.

Link to CNNmoney.com article is here.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 08/09/2009 at 10:11 PM   
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