very good news – for local auto dealers. All three new-car dealerships in La Grande have been cheering it. They like what the program is doing for business and they don’t want to see it end anytime ...

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New-car dealers in the area have seen varied sales activity generated by the federal "Cash for Clunkers" program. Ward Muscatell Kia of Moorhead saw quite a bit of activity the first couple of days ...

At first glance it seemed like the cash for clunker bike promotion at Daniel Boone Cycles was little more than a spoof on the government program to get some advertising for the bicycle shop. Turns out ...

Even those who thought it up were surprised by how successful the “Cash for clunkers” program was. Not me. I knew it would be huge. This wasn’t because I thought it would be so easy for people to take ...

But the federal program quickly changed that rule, he said, so that the dealers could get approval before seizing up the trade-in clunkers' engines. "That was a positive change," Motzkin said of the ...

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