clunkers

In Japan today, the Nikkei index slid 1.4 percent, finishing the day at 10,238. The decline was led by shares in the country's major car exporting companies, precipitated by fears that the U.S. government's announcement of the end of the "cash for clunkers" program on August 24th will stymie future...

The U.S. public has been far too accepting of the government's "cash for clunkers," or CARS program -- and now all the money is gone. As of Monday, said U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood Thursday, the program will be over. As we reported earlier today, the program was already being...

While the top 10 clunker trade-ins are U.S. brands, 53 percent of the new cars purchased are foreign brands. Ford Focus is the top seller, but the American car is followed by the Toyota Corolla, Honda Civic, Toyota Prius and Toyota Camry. That's probably no surprise because the widest choice for...

It seems timing really is everything. If I had waited just one more day to join the thousands filing into car dealers across the country looking to cash in on the government's latest attempt to reboot the economy, the Cash for Clunkers program, I might not have scored my rebate. "There are quite...

Planned obsolescence is something our current world leadership has aggressively campaigned against -- if you were to judge solely on the sound bites, it would give one the impression that the world's presidents and prime ministers were sponsored by The Story of Stuff. Sound bites, unfortunately,...