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Cash For Clunkers - Good Riddance Rollovers

By Eddie Farah

First Coast car dealers in Jacksonville seem to be moving ahead with the 'Cash for Clunkers' program despite the questions about depleted funds. The government has approved more money to keep the program rolling for the time being.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) will be administering the program and the official website you can check to see if your car qualifies - http://www.cars.gov.

New car buyers are receiving anywhere from $3,500 to $4,500 credit on their old gas guzzlers, presumably to trade the vehicle in for a more gas efficient vehicle. In Jacksonville, Duval Ford employees received about 25 clunkers last weekend alone, all rated at 18 miles per gallon or worse.

One of the top cars for trade-in is the Ford Explorer. In fact, the top four spots on the list of trade-ins are taken by the Ford Explorer - 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999. 1995 and 1994 help round out the Top Ten list of trade-ins.

Not only is this a good idea because of the gas guzzling engines, but up until 2005, the Ford Explorer was an unstable car with a tendency to roll. After many unnecessary deaths, in late 2005, the Explorer SUVs came equipped with Roll Stability Control, featuring roll-rate sensing and correcting capability to allow drivers to more easily maintain vehicle control during extreme maneuvers such as correcting the steering wheel when the car was drifting off the road.

Stability control debuted on the 2003 Volvo XC 90 and Lincoln SUV in 2004.

It was a Ford Explorer that rolled and threw nine high school students out of the windows early this summer and rolled several times. Three teens died.

Class-action lawsuits have forced the company to incorporate more safety features and today it's estimated the much-improved Explorer is among the five million on the road.

But turning in the pre-2005 models is a good thing, and not just for saving gasoline, it could save lives. #

Originally posted at InjuryBoard by Eddie Farah

Full post as published by Jacksonville Personal Injury Lawyer on August 13, 2009 (boomark / email).