Domestic Automakers Nab 47 Percent of Cash for Clunkers Sales, Ford Focus Best Seller

In about a year people are going to be wishing they had kept their clunkers.

Imagine if the new Fiesta had been out in time for this program!! man i cant wait for that car! it's going to KILL the Yaris and the Fit! there's no way it wont! It has sportier handling and more getupandgo than both of them, and the Honda Fit won motor trend car of the year because of it's "sportiness." Not to mention the praised Euro Focus is coming to the states to get launched alongside the Fiesta this coming spring i believe, thats a combo no one will be able to beat! The Fiesta and Focus are going to dominate the compact sedan market! These 2010 and 2011 model year Fords are the ones that this company has needed to return to competition with the foreign autos! maybe even beat them in the market where no domestic has stood a chance in years and years!

If the Focus was alreadying selling well before this, just imagine how well the new Focus will sell when it comes out next year.

Nice to see so many people getting excited about taxing everyone to enable a minority to buy cars on the cheap. This really isn't the role of governments, comrades.

Step 1: A bunch of stupid Americans buy trendy gas guzzling SUVs.

Step 2: Gas prices go up.

Step 3: Domestic car manufacturers lose sales because the stupid people don't want gas guzzlers any more because gas costs too much and being "green" is the new trendy crap to follow around blindly. The domestic manufacturers are too dumb to see this coming.

Step 4: Economy tanks and takes the domestic car manufacturers down with it. Government intervenes and makes everyone pay taxes for this "cash for clunkers" so that the original stupid people can buy smaller cars to help out the dumb domestic manufacturers.

Step 5: The same crap will happen all over again when the dumb domestic manufacturers poor all their money into hybrids while they're trendy. By the time they actually have a money making production hybrids won't be trendy anymore.

I love this country.

What's good about these cars?

This is just numbers.. next month everything will be back to normal and the dealers will have slow sales again.. then in about a year the same people that bought this cars can't pay them and you have banks loosing money again.. no jobs = no money..

Crap.
Eight years ago, I bought a house. Did everything right - didn't buy more that I could afford, paid 20% down, financed only the principle (not taxes or insurance), and paying down the principle. And now I'm bailing other home owner wannabe's out.

And now, under the Cash for Clunkers program, I am making down payments on new cars for others, while I drive a '91 Camry that still gets better than 32 mpg on the highway.

Ah, even more of my tax money is going to pay for people's cars that I don't even know! Waa, waa waa... I just wish I had a few broken down vehicles in my barn that I could get running long enough to get to the dealer for a trade-in.

Wonder how many are doing that? I wonder how many get the $4500 discount, then turn around and sell the car for sticker minus $2500 and pocket the rest? Oops, sorry, too many ideas today.

@ wvo

That works in some areas, but states with sales tax make it a little harder to flip these for profit (unless it's a really inexpensive model), but I suppose it would actually be a good thing if they did that. All those people who don't own "gas guzzlers" couldn't benefit from their own tax dollars, if someone is willing to cut them in and take a commoission that's great!