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Our "award-winning" "mainstream" news media does not want "average" Americans to know too many details. I looked up the numbers of annual sales in America and found on the website of NADA National Automobile Dealers Association that 16.1 million "light duty vehicles" were sold in 2007, and 13 million in 2008. So let us say that without any government programs of 'stimulus' at least 10 million vehicles would have been sold this year. That works out to almost 200,000 vehicles every week.

The fact that decision makers in DC are pretending to be shocked by the 'success' of this program is another example of their a)stupidity, or b) their belief that American voters are stupid.

From a Bloomberg article:
U.S. Auto Sales May Reach 2009 High on ‘Clunkers’ Aid July 31 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. auto sales may reach a 2009 high in July after the government’s $1 billion “cash-for- clunkers” incentives program lured shoppers back to showrooms. Industrywide deliveries will run at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 10.1 million cars and light trucks, based on 7 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.