There's no evidence for anything in your first paragraph.. I know it was a popular conspiracy theory on the auto forums but it doesn't remotely pass the sniff t

There's no evidence for anything in your first paragraph.. I know it was a popular conspiracy theory on the auto forums but it doesn't remotely pass the sniff test.. Cash for clunkers only turned in 690k cars, not 'millions' and they had to get terrible mileage to qualify in the first place so the list of trade-in was almost entirely 90s era SUVs. In any case, in the preceding 15 years there were something like 200 million vehicles sold in the US. Removing under half a percent of those couldn't possibly have had a half-decade impact on the used car market.