We need a new name. Clunkers…Lemons….most of us know those terms for reject cars that rolled off the assembly line with some sort of defect, but now we need a new name for today’s cars. What are we going to call those cars that the dealers are selling right now with the new “payment protection plan.”? Ford, GM and Hyundai are all offering a big brother guarantee that, if you happen to (whoops)…lose your darn job….then the car company will pay your car note for a few months, and then heaven forbid if you are still out of work—you can simply bring the car back.
Everything these days gets a name…so what are the dealers, driving public, bloggers and taxpayers going to call these contraptions ?
If a lemon was a clunker then what will we label cars that are soon to be returned? What are these cars “only driven to work by out of work workers?
I think it is only right that we come up with a proper name…in time for the 2009 International Auto Show here in New York.
BTW…while we are at it, can you think of any OTHER consumer items that manufacturers should be willing to buy back if we loose our jobs?
Do we draw the line at microwaves? Slightly used golf clubs? A half a jar of Skippy? Choose from the recession menu below.
Vehicles in a pickle. Recession rollers. Desper-autos?
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