Car buyers throttled back from the mad dash last week, but sales were still brisk over the weekend as the "cash for clunkers" program continued to attract crowds to Southern California dealerships.
The Senate on Friday voted to pump an additional $2 billion into the popular auto rebate program, which should be enough to extend it through Labor Day. As expected, that slowed traffic somewhat to dealerships after last week's frenzy, when consumers rushed to car lots fearing that the program would run out of money.
Although car sales didn't double like the weekend before, they were still 25% to 50% higher than usual at many dealers in Los Angeles County -- a surge attributed to the clunkers rebate.
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