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And for the first, I don't know, three to five years of their life, mountain bikes were known as "clunkers. "

For an administration ready to spend billions on a "cash for clunkers" programme, its policies are inconsistent.

Like the U. S. with its recent "cash for clunkers" program, in China it has become a national economic necessity to promote car ownership.

That would be the best pace of the year outside of July and August, when sales were buttressed by the clunkers program.

That leads him to a blunt conclusion: save the workers, not the factories that turn out such clunkers.

"cash for clunkers" program made August the best month of the year for new-vehicle sales in the United States, automakers said Tuesday.

Car sales, boosted by the expired cash-for-clunkers programme, accounted for around half of that growth in output.

The impact of cash-for-clunkers will fade, however, as the number of those eligible and willing to participate dwindles.

It should benefit both from "Cash for Clunkers, " and from the early stages of the U. S. market recovery.

His seeming lack of discrimination has made it more likely that he would pitch some clunkers, analysts said.

A secondary benefit is getting gas-guzzling old clunkers off the road and replaced with more fuel-efficient band new models.

Much of the demand for car parts was spurred by the popular "cash for clunkers" car rebate programme, as car makers lifted production.

Much of the increase was auto-related from the 'cash for clunkers' rebate program, as well as rising energy prices.

Cash for clunkers sounds like a good idea. Give people cash to upgrade their old cars for more efficient vehicles.

Meanwhile, all 10 of the most traded-in clunkers so far are sport-utility vehicles, pick-up trucks and minivans.

Cash-for-clunkers gave a temporary boost to motor-vehicle production but had no lasting impact on the economy.

The program is named the Car Allowance Rebate System, but known as " cash for clunkers. "

Yet unless demand for cars stays high after "cash-for-clunkers" incentives fade, the car industry in Europe will need fewer workers.

Factory data have improved sharply as consumers traded in their clunkers and businesses stopped dumping inventory.

But now thanks to the clunkers program, many analysts expect that number could jump close to 12 million for July or higher.

US consumer spending on durable goods jumped in the quarter, fuelled by the popular "cash-for-clunkers" car-buying subsidy.

The Japanese government recently made hybrids tax-free and began a cash-for-clunkers program.

By comparison, even the 'cash for clunkers' program managed to boost U. S. auto sales for August by just 1% over their year-earlier numbers.

After a 'cash for clunkers' buying frenzy and a postclunkers hangover, auto sales are stabilizing.

Cinemas were old and decrepit, productions were clunkers and pirated videotapes and discs proliferated.

Cash for clunkers and the first-time home buyers' tax credit merely moved purchases forward by a few months.

Dealers have until 8 p. m. Eastern Time to turn in their paperwork for the Cash for Clunkers deals.

The headlines from Washington today blare of bailouts, stimulus, clunkers, Afpak, health care.

You now have a few more weeks to take advantage of the Cash for Clunkers program.

Clunkers were swapped for cash, and subsidies slapped on energy-efficient appliances.

The runaway hit rebate plan Cash for Clunkers could get a jump-start today.

The American "cash-for-clunkers" subsidy for car sales ended in August.

Some Republican critics say Cash for Clunkers will create debt for future generations.

Sometimes we talk about going somewhere, but we have only bicycles, mostly real clunkers.

U. S. auto sales boomed in August as $3 billion in the federal government's "cash for clunkers" incentives drove sharp gains.

A 'cash for clunkers' trade-in program will offer higher rebates next year.

the "cash for clunkers" scheme is a big, if temporary, prop to output and firms will, sooner or later, stop cutting inventories.

The Transportation Department said Wednesday that participants in the clunkers program bought 690, 000 new vehicles.

It is the investor equivalent of the cash-for-clunkers scheme.

' Plus, he got a $4, 500 government-sponsored 'cash-for-clunkers' rebate.

Now comes the $3 billion question: with the government "cash for clunkers" incentives exhausted, how bad will the hangover be?

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But " cash for clunkers" has its critics.

They support struggling companies via subsidized loans, programs such as cash for clunkers, or via public works.

"Cash for clunkers" car-scrappage schemes boosted countries, such as Slovakia, with big car industries.

The month-long "cash-for-clunkers" programme ended in America.

This is true, for example, of the scrapping premium -- a program similar to "cash for clunkers" in the US.