Comments on: Car dealers are refusing gas guzzlers as trade-ins

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:19:08 +0000

Hey Dave, you can have my Yugo. LOL!

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:50:59 +0000

I’ll sell you my low mileage Toyota 4Runner, Anna!!

By: Anna

Anna — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:15:05 +0000

That’s exactly my point. Everyone talks so much trash about these frivolous people driving their evil SUVs, but which of you knows of a nice little gas conserving Honda Accord that will hold my 5 children, plus me and my husband? Even people with a moderate size family, say 3 children under age 5 can’t fit into a sedan because the car seats and boosters take up too much room to fit 3 across.

By: car articles

car articles — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:23:45 +0000

This is everywhere. Carmax had a huge drop in sales as well. No body is buying SUVs and the car dealer had a whole lot of those on their car lot.

Last week was a busy week for the dealership because of the deals the store has going on – 0 percent interest for 72 months vs. the typical 6.9 percent interest. These deals are just to get rid of SUVs.

BUT hybrids are in high demand and that is good for the new direction we need to take in respect to fuel efficiency

By: Dustin

Dustin — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:25:11 +0000

When are car companies going to make a large vehicle that doesn’t suck the gas? Some people need SUVs for their families, some need trucks for their work.

With gas prices at $10/gal by next year even you Prius owners will be crying.

By: Turn One Pound Into One Million

Turn One Pound Into One Million — Thu, 29 May 2008 10:09:35 +0000

Wow this is amazing. I have never considered that it will get harder to sell a less efficient car. Lucky mine is a hybrid Prius and perhaps it will even gain in value!

By: rzrshrp

rzrshrp — Tue, 27 May 2008 12:07:56 +0000

I’ve always wanted a cheap pickup that I can use for occassional hauling and moving. I’d try to jump on the opportunity but I don’t have the money to spare at the moment.

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Mon, 26 May 2008 04:50:39 +0000

I’m watching SUV prices with baited breath. At the rate that these vehicles are loosing value, purchasing a used SUV for my growing family may be too good of an opportunity to pass up.

DW currently only put about 10K miles a year so if we could buy a 16-18mpg 4Runner (as an example). A $4000 discount off a roomy vehicle we would most likely of bought anyone is good news for us.

By: Early Retirement Extreme

Early Retirement Extreme — Sun, 25 May 2008 01:23:56 +0000

First it was the sub-prime house owners, then the SUV owners. My guess is that the McMansion owners (heating bills) are coming up. Eventually, it will be suburbia itself. The idea of having to drive around to do anything simply only works when energy is cheap.

By: Julia

Julia — Sat, 24 May 2008 07:09:41 +0000

What I don’t get is this. Gas prices spiked 2 times in the last 3 years before this latest ramp up that has topped them all. Gas prices spiked, people stopped buying SUVs, then gas prices fell and the SUVs were bought again. Why did people start buying them again? Just because gas fell to a price that was affordable at the time? People should have seen this coming in 2005 when gas prices went up the first time. Just because prices fell doesn’t mean the fall was permanent or that it wouldn’t spike higher in the future.

Gas is a limited, non-renewable resource. Those who waste it away without care won’t get any sympathy from me now that prices have gone up. They are likely the same people who buy too much house and waste gas and electricity heating and cooling an oversized house.

Conserving energy makes financial and ecological sense.