Wife sold the 240

Rated fuel economy is too high to qualify for that scam of a program anyway.

I don't even want to get started on that rant, three *billion* dollars of public money blown paying people to junk perfectly good cars, while excluding practically anything that could honestly be called a clunker. It's gonna be a long slow hangover for the auto industry now that they've crammed the next several years of sales into the last few months.

They won't appear for sale elsewhere, the program mandates they be destroyed. Oil drained out, chemical poured in, engine run until it seizes, then it's off to the crusher. That's the part that irked me so much about it. Cars don't rust here, the ones turned in were mostly good daily driver trucks, SUVs, and luxury cars in the 5-10 year old range. IE the sort of cars those who buy used cars would otherwise be buying.

That was my initial opinion as well, but up here in the Northeast at least, I've seen rusty old gas guzzlers replaced by new Hyundais, Civics, Corollas and Ford Focuses. Focii? Anyway, the program seems to have worked as advertised in the Rust belt. Now I'm waiting for those late model SUVs to appear for sale elsewhere...

Oh I know what the program mandated, but never underestimate the criminality of the American car business. ;-) I understand your concern, but up here we seem to have a good supply of used cars even after the program, so places where cars don't rust should have even more. I am genuinely surprised at how well it worked. I was expecting to see SUVs replacing SUVs, but they seem to mainly have replaced old V-8 vans and pickups, and with four and six cylinder SUVs at that.