I've been thinking about this cash for clunkers thing and if the government just let every car company come out with 1 model each that was small and git crazy gas milage that costs $4,500 so you could trade stright, they would
1. accomplish their goal of taking all of the old bad gas milage cars off the road.
2. give poor people a cheap, efficient and reliable means of trasportation.
3. stimulate auuto sales.
4. reduce dependance on oil.
5. reduce carbon emissions.
6. the cars that would be taken off of the road wouldent pass crash safty standrds of today anyway!
I see no down side. I believe that for all of those reasons except crash safty is the same reasons why you have small KAI cars in Japan. They made them after WWII I believe and correct me if im wrong someone, for the same reasons we have today. Less money for the car, less oil consumed, cheap trasportation.
I had a thread about this months ago asking honda to bring back the N600 for these very reasons! WILL NO ONE LISTEN FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!!! (I say in my best charlton Heston voice)