Just for fun I went on the US Gov't cash for clunkers site to see what I would get for my 96 GM "chesterfield" car if I could trade it in for a more fuel efficient one.
Turns out $0.
My '96, 3.8 V-6 is too fuel efficient to qualify. It gets 21MPG (yeah right) and the threshold is 18 MPG, over which you get squat. http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/sbs.htm
Oh well I was going to hang on to my '96 anyway and continue to drive it into the ground. At 275000 kilometers it only costs me gas, oil and insurance. I have a hard time justifying trading that in for car payments for the next 5 years. Not having a monthly payment is sooooooo nice.
Turns out $0.
My '96, 3.8 V-6 is too fuel efficient to qualify. It gets 21MPG (yeah right) and the threshold is 18 MPG, over which you get squat. http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/sbs.htm
Oh well I was going to hang on to my '96 anyway and continue to drive it into the ground. At 275000 kilometers it only costs me gas, oil and insurance. I have a hard time justifying trading that in for car payments for the next 5 years. Not having a monthly payment is sooooooo nice.
