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Old 08-20-2009, 03:55 PM  
kane
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A few people have brought this up. Now that everyone with an old car that has the ability to get a new car has taken advantage of the program expect to see a huge drop in sales below predicted levels as there are less people needing to buy a car.
Yep that is the big question. I think it was a pretty good success overall. The idea of stimulus is to put money in people's pockets and create jobs. There were announcements the other day that GM was calling back a bunch of workers since they were selling cars again and clearly these dealers got big boosts in business, plus consumers got a good deal and we got a bunch of polluting, inefficient cars off the streets. The question is will they find new ways to entice consumers to buy now that the massive rebates are gone? I guess we will find out.
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