Bottom line: the share of C-for-C that went to Toyota, Honda, Nissan exceeded their share of sales for the year prior to CfC. Only Ford, of the American companies, held its own; whatever else, good but mostly bad, about the program, it clearly demonstrated people's statistical preference for non-American cars:
"Why did GM and Chrysler, both owned in part by the same government that launched C4C, do so poorly? In part, they didn’t have cars to sell. Both GM and Chrysler had curtailed their production during their bankruptcies but had worked to have inventory ready for the new sales year. By launching C4C in the middle of the summer, when most dealers are already cutting prices to move inventory off the lot, the administration practically guaranteed that C4C would leave them on the sidelines. Chrysler had the worst inventory problems, but GM also had serious inventory issues. Ford, which didn’t take the bailout, had continued production and had inventory ready to sell.
"Shouldn’t the owner of GM and Chrysler had known this? Didn’t anyone on the Auto Task Force — say, Ron Bloom, the auto czar with no automaking experience — bother to check whether their companies were ready to compete in this program, and whether July was a smart time to launch this even apart from that? This is what happens when government enters the private sector; it makes decisions based on politics rather than sound business sense, and it picks leaders based on cronyism and political payoffs rather than expertise and competence."
AND, AGAIN, THIS SAYS A LOT ABOUT THE LIKELY GOV'T PERFORMANCE RUNNING HEALTH CARE:
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/27/big-winners-in-cash-for-clunkers-toyota-honda-and-nissan/
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