Sacrilege? Maserati With 18,500 Miles Get Traded In Under Cash For Clunkers Program!

It is hoped the federal so-called "Cash for Clunkers" program will take as many as 800,000 older modeled gas guzzlers off U.S. highways. The program is designed to remove less fuel efficient vehicles from the road and spur the economy through car sales.

Go Subaru in Golden has seen the positive effects of the Cash for Clunkers program. They've taken in nearly 50 clunkers since the program began.

"Probably half our deals right now are Cash for Clunkers," Billy Mills, general sales manager for Go Subaru, said.

Most of the clunkers Go Subaru has taken in through the program are predictable. Many are large SUVs and pickup trucks. Some are in pretty bad shape.

"Ninety-nine percent of them are clunkers," Wes Guthrie, a salesperson at Go Subaru, said. "I took somebody's car in the other day that their door wouldn't shut anymore, and they were using a bungee to shut the door."

Then there was the "clunker" a man drove onto the lot that surprised everyone.

"I was like, 'Wow, that's a cool car,'" Guthrie said of the 1985 Maserati BiTurbo.




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