CARS Allowance Rebate System (aka Cash For Clunkers) rules officially announced

Posted: Jul 24, 2009
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CARS Allowance Rebate System

The U.S. government has officially launched the cars.gov website which spells out the rules to its new Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS) program. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released the final eligibility requirements for the program earlier today. To download the full document click here.

If you don’t have time to go through the whole PDF – here are some important things that NHTSA wants you to know before you run into get your CARS rebate:

- Your vehicle must be less than 25 years old on the trade-in date.
- Only purchase or lease of new vehicles qualify.
- Generally, trade-in vehicles must get 18 or less MPG (some very large pick-up trucks and cargo vans have different requirements).
- Trade-in vehicles must be registered and insured continuously for the full year preceding the trade-in.
- You don’t need a voucher, dealers will apply a credit at purchase.
- Program runs through Nov 1, 2009 or when the funds are exhausted, whichever comes first.
- The program requires the scrapping of your eligible trade-in vehicle, and that the dealer disclose to you an estimate of the scrap value of your trade-in. The scrap value, however minimal, will be in addition to the rebate, and not in place of the rebate.

- By: Omar Rana

Source: Cars.gov


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  • Pat

    Wow there are a lot of restrictions but def useful for people that have really old cars that suck and are a waste of space

  • http://www.tysongamblin.wordpress.com TysonGamblin

    They sent out a document of 135+ pages on the rules to dealers on how to collect the $, what qualifies, how it has to be written, who qualifies. This is just one giant complicated mess.

  • robdebrich

    Hi:
    “I am writting this in an effort to report “U.S. Government Fraud”

    The fueleconomy MPG tables are fabucated to make the older automobiles and trucks look to have better gas milage than the newer automobiles and trucks. People are being decieved by the false information. Due to this, many driveable vehicles are being destroyed leaving the older ones in service. One thought is that the Obama administration is preventing the low income familys and farms from being able to take advantage of this program. Another idea is that a nation with many older vehicles on the road polutes more, causes more accidents and weakens the nations ability to transport civilians between major locations in times of national emergencys.

    Here is a real examble of what I am talking about: I have a 1985 Ford F150 with the long wide bed that has a 300 c.i. engine (6 cylinder) with a manual 4 speed transmission according to the fuelecomony mpg table it is rated at 19 mpg. According to Ford’s mpg ratings it is rated at 14 mpg. My old truck was manufactued with a carburator, no computor, no emmission system and has no overdrive. I have been driving pickups for a long time. Before fuel injection, engine controlled computers and overdrive, a pickup was doing above adverage to get 14 mpg. However, it appears that vehicles manufactured between 1995 and 2000 are the ones being bought as clunkers which, all of these were manufatured with fuel injection, ODB2 computers, emmissions control and overdrive.

    I am asking that this fraud get referred through the proper channels and that it get investigated as to who fabricated the data and what was the motive.

    Peace be with you,
    Rev. Robert Richardson 205-681-5509

  • robdebrich

    Hi:
    “I am writting this in an effort to report “U.S. Government Fraud”

    The fueleconomy MPG tables are fabucated to make the older automobiles and trucks look to have better gas milage than the newer automobiles and trucks. People are being decieved by the false information. Due to this, many driveable vehicles are being destroyed leaving the older ones in service. One thought is that the Obama administration is preventing the low income familys and farms from being able to take advantage of this program. Another idea is that a nation with many older vehicles on the road polutes more, causes more accidents and weakens the nations ability to transport civilians between major locations in times of national emergencys.

    Here is a real examble of what I am talking about: I have a 1985 Ford F150 with the long wide bed that has a 300 c.i. engine (6 cylinder) with a manual 4 speed transmission according to the fuelecomony mpg table it is rated at 19 mpg. According to Ford’s mpg ratings it is rated at 14 mpg. My old truck was manufactued with a carburator, no computor, no emmission system and has no overdrive. I have been driving pickups for a long time. Before fuel injection, engine controlled computers and overdrive, a pickup was doing above adverage to get 14 mpg. However, it appears that vehicles manufactured between 1995 and 2000 are the ones being bought as clunkers which, all of these were manufatured with fuel injection, ODB2 computers, emmissions control and overdrive.

    I am asking that this fraud get referred through the proper channels and that it get investigated as to who fabricated the data and what was the motive.

    Peace be with you,
    Rev. Robert Richardson 205-681-5509