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Originally Posted by goof2
Not quite. It is a tiered system and the amount of the government credit depends on MPG improvement.
z06boy: In order to get any money at all you need to improve your fuel economy by a certain amount.
If you get a passenger car and it improves your economy by 4mpg or more (20mpg) you get $3500. If you get 10mpg better or more (26mpg) you get the full $4500.
If you get a truck it gets more complex. I would suggest looking at the cars.gov faq to try and figure it out.
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Everything I've read says to get $3500 you need to improve your combined mpg by at least 10. to get $4500 you need to improve it by at least 15 mpg.
So this pretty much means any pickup or SUV is out, as well as any performance orientated vehicles.
you have to be looking at little econo boxes for this to fly. and who the hell would give up a 4x4 pickup/suv for one of those?