If you're hoping to make a last-minute Cash for Clunkers deal, you'd better call your car dealer first to make sure he's still doing them. Also, make sure there are cars left to sell on the lot.
As car dealers start to turn away new Cash for Clunkers customers, a key industry group is urging the government to give them another week to get their paperwork in.
Despite the Obama administration's promises that any Clunker deals written this weekend would be honored, the National Automobile Dealers Association is advising its members to play it safe and not close any more deals until the program's fate is clearer.
Federal authorities unveiled their $1 billion "cash for clunkers" plan Monday as a win for the environment, a win for automakers and a win for drivers who would like to trade up, but they acknowledged the program's impact is uncertain.
Starting early next week, larger businesses will temporarily be eligible to apply for loans backed by the Small Business Administration, a move aimed at getting help to besieged auto dealers and industry suppliers.
If you're hoping to make a last-minute Cash for Clunkers deal, you'd better call your car dealer first to make sure he's still doing them. Also, make sure there are cars left to sell on the lot.
As car dealers start to turn away new Cash for Clunkers customers, a key industry group is urging the government to give them another week to get their paperwork in.
Despite the Obama administration's promises that any Clunker deals written this weekend would be honored, the National Automobile Dealers Association is advising its members to play it safe and not close any more deals until the program's fate is clearer.
Federal authorities unveiled their $1 billion "cash for clunkers" plan Monday as a win for the environment, a win for automakers and a win for drivers who would like to trade up, but they acknowledged the program's impact is uncertain.
Starting early next week, larger businesses will temporarily be eligible to apply for loans backed by the Small Business Administration, a move aimed at getting help to besieged auto dealers and industry suppliers.
New Norris Chevrolet in Westfield, N.J., is gone now. Along with hundreds of other small dealers across the country, it was forced to shut down -- swept under by mounting debts, dwindling car sales and industry consolidation.
A group representing auto parts suppliers may ask for as much as $25.5 billion in federal aid as the industry struggles under falling car sales and production cutbacks.
Two former presidents reflected on their greatest regrets in office Monday, each looking back to issues that continue to plague the nation years later.
If you want to see how America's credit crisis is hitting the streets of your hometown, go to your local car dealer. Auto dealers depend on credit. They need it to run their stores and their customers need it to buy their products. From every angle, credit trouble hurts.
Consider this: if all 19,700 members of the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) reduced their energy consumption by just 10 percent, they would save approximately $193 million in energy costs and eliminate more than one million tons of greenhouse gas emissions each year.
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Call it "Return of the Soggy Sedan" or "The Night of Waterlogged Wheels", but unlike a zombie flick, the horror of flooded vehicles returning to the used car market seems to be very real.
Automakers are offering sweet discount deals to attract buyers to their showrooms, but if you're looking for a real bargain, head over to a used car lot.
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