{"id":135076,"date":"2010-01-04T06:56:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T11:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/despite-the-clunker-hangover-americans-keep-binging-on-cars-2010-1"},"modified":"2010-01-04T06:56:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T11:56:12","slug":"even-without-cash-for-clunkers-americans-keep-bingeing-on-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/135076","title":{"rendered":"Even Without Cash For Clunkers, Americans Keep Bingeing On Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even without cash for clunkers, American auto sales have remained remarkably strong. While automakers&#8217; December sales data comes out on Tuesday, it already looks like it was a great month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704789404574636323928275530.html?mod=dist_smartbrief\"> WSJ:<\/a> &#8220;We are seeing an increase across the board,&#8221; said Michelle Krebs, a senior analyst at Edmunds.com, a car-buying Web site. She cited higher-than-expected gains at BMW AG, Ford Motor Co., Honda Motor Co., Toyota Motor Co.&#8217;s Lexus, and General Motor Co.&#8217;s soon-to-be-shuttered Saturn and Pontiac brands.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Many industry analysts now expect the seasonally adjusted annualized selling rate in December to be more than 11 million cars and trucks. Such a figure would mark the second-best month of 2009 after August, which received a major jolt from the &#8220;cash for clunkers&#8221; government rebate program.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4b41d6380000000000c27615&amp;maxX=550\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Sls\" width=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704789404574636323928275530.html?mod=dist_smartbrief\">Read more at the WSJ &#8212; &gt;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/despite-the-clunker-hangover-americans-keep-binging-on-cars-2010-1#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/70-of-the-gdp-growth-was-cash-for-clunkers-2009-12\">70% Of The Q3 GDP Growth Was Cash For Clunkers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/chrysler-october-us-sales-fall-30-2009-11\">Carmakers Reveal The Extent Of Their Cash-For-Clunkers Hangover<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/cash-for-clunkers-has-similar-effect-in-turkey-2009-11\">Cash For Clunkers Hangover Hits Europe<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/glqCIVCDIErwbvOGiorrLADEONM\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/glqCIVCDIErwbvOGiorrLADEONM\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/glqCIVCDIErwbvOGiorrLADEONM\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/glqCIVCDIErwbvOGiorrLADEONM\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=TCLtJU8hLiU:vCcRKZSenC8:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=TCLtJU8hLiU:vCcRKZSenC8:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?i=TCLtJU8hLiU:vCcRKZSenC8:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=TCLtJU8hLiU:vCcRKZSenC8:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?i=TCLtJU8hLiU:vCcRKZSenC8:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=TCLtJU8hLiU:vCcRKZSenC8:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=TCLtJU8hLiU:vCcRKZSenC8:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?i=TCLtJU8hLiU:vCcRKZSenC8:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/greensheet\/~4\/TCLtJU8hLiU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even without cash for clunkers, American auto sales have remained remarkably strong. While automakers&#8217; December sales data comes out on Tuesday, it already looks like it was a great month. WSJ: &#8220;We are seeing an increase across the board,&#8221; said Michelle Krebs, a senior analyst at Edmunds.com, a car-buying Web site. She cited higher-than-expected gains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}