AP IMPACT: Clunker pickups traded for new pickups (AP)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Wed, 11/04/2009 - 1:30pm

FILE- In this Aug. 13, 2009 file photo, Benito 'Beny' Ledesma, Jr., general sales manager at the Williamson Cadillac-Hummer in Miami, leans against a Hummer H3T.<br /><br />(AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, FILE)AP - The most common deals under the government's $3 billion Cash for Clunkers program, aimed at putting more fuel-efficient cars on the road, replaced old Ford or Chevrolet pickups with new ones that got only marginally better gas mileage, according to an analysis of new federal data by The Associated Press.




 

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