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点燃市场的旧车换新计划即将结束，代理商愤怒！
8月21日 美国的旧车换新计划将于8月24日结束，使得促进新车销售的努力也不得不终止，汽车代理商们感到愤怒。
换车活动给以旧换新的消费者4500美元的折价以购买新的更为省油的车。交通部昨天称已经将给48万9千个通过汽车代理商交易的补贴-共计20亿美元记录在案。这次截止将给代理商和消费者一定的时间来申请国会提供的总数为30亿美元的余下部分。代理商抱怨说等待补贴付款使得生意运转变得困难。交通部则说他们在增加人手来加快处理汽车补贴申请。
总部位于密西根诺斯维尔的CSM国际有限公司的分析师迈克尔.罗宾特说：“显然市场需求比我们想像的要大的多，前景不错。但是现在蜜月已经过去，我们需要关注在换车计划后的市场状况如何！” 交通部说8月24日晚8点后的补贴申请将不被接受。
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“这项计划的成功超过任何人的想象”，奥巴马在接受费城电台脱口秀节目主持人迈克尔.斯莫考内施的采访时说，“我们现在是成功的受害者”
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he U.S. “cash for clunkers” trade-in program will stop accepting applications on Aug. 24, bringing to a close an effort that helped revive auto sales and drew the ire of dealers for slow repayments.
The clunkers plan, which offers auto buyers discounts of as much as $4,500 to trade in older cars and trucks for new, more fuel-efficient vehicles, has recorded more than 489,000 dealer transactions worth $2.04 billion in rebates, according to Transportation Department data released today.
The deadline will give car dealers and buyers time to complete purchases and apply for rebates from the remainder of the $3 billion provided by Congress, the department said. Dealers have complained of difficulty running their businesses while awaiting program payments, and the agency said it’s adding workers to help process claims faster.
“Obviously there was a lot more latent demand than many thought,” said Michael Robinet, an analyst at CSM Worldwide Inc. in Northville, Michigan. “That bodes well for the market. But we are past the honeymoon now and we have to see what the market looks like in the post-clunker environment.”
Applications for rebates won’t be accepted after 8 p.m. New York time on Aug. 24, the agency said yesterday.
The Transportation Department said yesterday it had handled about 37 percent dealer requests submitted. The agency didn’t say how many of the processed transactions have been paid out and how many were rejected or sent back for further information.
Some $145 million, or less than 8 percent, had been paid out to dealers as of Aug. 20, a senior administration official said on a call with reporters.
Wind-Down Plan
Officials from the National Automobile Dealers Association trade group met two days ago with the Transportation Department to discuss concerns that payment delays add to the burden on retailers of trying to recover from a sales slump. The association also urged the agency to outline a plan to wind down the effort so retailers know when to stop accepting trade-ins.
“Consumers and dealers participating in the clunkers program now have clarity,” John McEleney, chairman of the McLean, Virginia-ba<x>sed dealers group, said in a statement yesterday after the government’s announcement. “And now dealers around the country can begin implementing an orderly wind-down of the program, while managing their customers’ expectations.”
The program is formally known as the Car Allowance Rebate System, or CARS.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, asked Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood in a letter yesterday to speed up payments, saying “dealers have been forced to effectively finance the CARS vouchers for buyers until the dealers are reimbursed by the federal government, placing a strain on dealers’ balance sheets that, if prolonged, could eventually offset some of the benefits of the program.”
Training Workers
About 1,200 people are processing the applications, said Jill Zuckman, a Transportation Department spokeswoman. That compares with fewer than 200 when the program began. The agency is training more of its staff and is using Citigroup Inc. workers under a $7.7 million contract to handle the paperwork, Zuckman said.
“It has been successful beyond anybody’s imagination,” President Barack Obama said during an interview with Philadelphia radio talk-show host Michael Smerconish yesterday. “We’re now slightly victims of success.”
Initial Funding Exhausted
The money allotted for clunkers went faster than the government anticipated. The program exhausted the initial $1 billion less than a week after it began. Congress added an additional $2 billion intended to keep it going through Labor Day, which is Sept. 7.
General Motors Co. and Auburn Hills, Michigan-ba<x>sed Chrysler Group LLC said they plan to provide cash advances to dealers awaiting government rebates as the initiative spurs auto demand.
The advances will be made for qualifying new-vehicles sales already exchanged under clunkers through the life of the program, Detroit-ba<x>sed GM said.
The government’s initiative may give GM its best sales this year in August. The industry’s new-vehicle retail sales in the U.S. will top 1 million in August for the first time in the past 12 months, J.D. Power & Associates forecast.
‘Flurry of Activity’
Ford Motor Co. is increasing the availability of credit for dealers’ used-vehicle financing to provide cash flow relief to dealers awaiting ‘clunker’ payments from the government, said Meredith Libbey, a spokeswoman for the automaker’s loan unit.
“Given that the funding could run out at any time, the government is erring on the side of caution so neither consumers nor dealers are left holding the bag,” said Jeremy Anwyl, chief executive officer of research firm Edmunds.com in Santa Monica, California. “We expect there will be a flurry of activity over the weekend as the program comes to a close.”
GM has the biggest share of clunkers purchases among domestic automakers, with about 18 percent, according to Transportation Department data today. Toyota Motor Corp. is first with 19 percent, and Dearborn, Michigan-ba<x>sed Ford is third at 15 percent.
Ford’s Focus is the only vehicle made by a U.S.-ba<x>sed company among the top five purchased under the program. The others are Toyota’s Corolla and Camry, Tokyo-ba<x>sed Honda Motor Co.’s Civic and the Elantra, made by Hyundai Motor Co. of Seoul.
The agency said 54 percent of the top-10 vehicles bought under the plan were manufactured in the U.S. Vehicles from Chevrolet, Ford and Chrysler accounted for all of the 10 most- traded used vehicles.
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