CashForClunkers... A 1985 Maserati was traded in for $3500 through the Cash for Clunkers program CashForClunkers...
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@Robbieifyoucan10 жыл бұрын
"Eighteen thousand four hundred and eighty thousand miles..." This is why nobody likes car salesmen.
@zombiehoof12 жыл бұрын
I've worked at an Acura dealership during the cash for clunker. Every car and truck that was traded in was far from being a clunker.
@jprav6510 жыл бұрын
This really pisses me off...
@IcanDriveIt7 ай бұрын
It’s been 10 years since this comment and I’m still mad at how all these cars were crushed. Such a hair-brained idea. I still see all of these cars from this video out on the road. All those used parts gone. all those cars that today would be cheap transportation for young adults. 677,000 cars needlessly destroyed
@krazyhartin11 жыл бұрын
It's just one of those things that brings a sadness to your heart to see a car like this and make you wish you can fix it.
@KingOfTheClutch13 жыл бұрын
"It's only got eighteen thousand four hundred and eighty thousand miles on the odometer" yea, your truly gifted.
@dieselscience10 жыл бұрын
"....eighteen thousand four hundred and eighty thousand miles on the odometer..." Good thing that knuckle head isn't in any other line of work.
@cliolord10 жыл бұрын
Hahaha!
@levipayne8012 жыл бұрын
That Subaru he replaced it with probably blew a head gasket
@davoid964 жыл бұрын
I still have PTSD from this video.
@suddnstar12 жыл бұрын
I'm sure the owner regrets getting rid of this car, if I did what he/she did I would never be able to forgive myself.
@Snarky_QueenАй бұрын
He did say he was tired of the car breaking down, which is typical for any italian car to be an endless moneypit.
@jamesb83057 жыл бұрын
How can they destroy the engine if it won't start?
@oliviersavard86764 жыл бұрын
Yeah, that's what's surprising me. Everyone's angry at seeing that thing traded in for CFC, while I'm here wondering how the owner managed to get the dealership to accept that car in the first place given that the cars were supposed to be running. It might be the only "special" car I'm not frustrated to see it taken in for CFC: even if it weren't traded in, it wouldn't have survived anyway. Nobody wanted it either way so it's not much of a loss lol, except maybe as a parts car
@mikeg352910 жыл бұрын
I'm sorry, but if I was the owner of THAT dealership, I would have easily picked up some piece of crap off Craigslist or the junkyard and had that written off as the clunker that person traded in, and sold that Maserati for twice,,,, if not 3-4 times the amount of 3,500 dollars.....shiiiiittttt.
@jamesb83057 жыл бұрын
Michael G Maserati's are junk. He's lucky he got so much under CFC. You did hear the owner could not get rid of it, right?
@stevegardnermax12 жыл бұрын
The car was 25 years old. I'll bet it was something simple like a bad fuel pump, clogged fuel filter or dry rotted vacuum line. But then, no one ever said the car was actually crushed. The car looked almost perfect. Ill bet the dealer drove it around back, fixed it, and kept it for himself..
@Lincolntowncoupe Жыл бұрын
I used to think this was a real travesty until I learned a bit more about the Maserati Biturbo and that whole era for Maserati. They may have had some nice fittings but they truly were hot garbage.
@1125bjfitz10 жыл бұрын
I wish I were in the market for a BeeTurbo 4 years ago. I would have bought it just to save it from this horrible tv spot, if anything. And hey, only 18 thousand 480 thousand miles on it! Barely broken in.
@risingembersgaming77405 жыл бұрын
Brian FitzGerald all Maseratis are “broken” in
@Siegetower13 жыл бұрын
Awesome car. Everything can be repaired if you have the right mechanic. Now all that material (leather/wood) is landfill and the steel becomes a washing machine. How romantic.
@03SilverMustangGT13 жыл бұрын
When he hit the gas and it stalled, that's completely normal if the vehicle is carborated. It needs to warm up a lil before you rev it.
@allwrathnograpes14 жыл бұрын
my friend bought this exact same model of car for $1000, and is in the process of rebuilding it. All he has to do is put the engine in.
@olds197811 жыл бұрын
100% agree with you! Its a shame destryoing all these nice cars!! Some of them are classics!
@alistairstuart200911 жыл бұрын
its actually more economical to keep an old car running than destroying, recycling it and building a new one. money talks
@fueledbymusic314 жыл бұрын
You know. I would say AT LEAST 80 percent of all those trade in are as nice as OR NICER than the car I own now!
@skaterkid9013 жыл бұрын
18,480,000 miles is pretty good going for a Maserati. I didn't realise they made space shuttles.
@itsasickworld77443 ай бұрын
Expensive car gets scrapped because it needs a $15 ballast resistor😂
@JungleListSoldier11 жыл бұрын
I can't believe he couldn't get $3,500 for it. What he didn't realize was he lost at least $3,500 just driving the new car off the lot. Essentially giving the Maserati away for free.
@TadGhostal2 ай бұрын
in case anyones wondering this is where all the used cars went
@doyouliketowatch14 жыл бұрын
if they want you to buy cars, lower the price, we all know that the sticker in the window isn't even close to the materials under the hood lol
@mychihuahuaissmall50618 жыл бұрын
this did not help the Amerikan economy, because everyone went out and bought foreign cars
@juice4206613 жыл бұрын
"eighteen thousand four hundred and eighty thousand miles" No wonder he's a car salesman.
@Simeon50812 жыл бұрын
I was at a car dealer the other day and saw a 05 range rover in the clunker lot......hate to see it go.
@SirSnivyofNottingham11 жыл бұрын
I would have fitted the bill for the fine and the rebate if they would have let me have this. Such an evil programme, that killed many fine cars that never deserved to die.
@redneckbryon13 жыл бұрын
What was the US GOVERNMENT thinking! That was a sweet car!
@Carlito198815 жыл бұрын
I know the Biturbo history very well...while they had their 'issues' this just proves the point, that most of the cars referred to as 'clunkers' are no where close to how people would classify one. The whole clunker program was a waste of the taxpayer's money & a lot of good cars with lots of miles left in them were trashed. Sad to say, but the real clunkers are still on the road!!
@2009FordCrownVic3 ай бұрын
The way the salesman speaks sets off a certain nerve
@daftend12 жыл бұрын
>He got what he wanted for it, just not from a customer but from the Government So really, yeah, he got his money from the customers he was looking for. They were just forced to buy it, so it could be crushed, because they didn't choose to buy it freely. I hate this country SO much sometimes.
@vans110714 жыл бұрын
eighteen thousand, four hundred and eighty thousand?? fucking genius car salesman
@logik3164 жыл бұрын
All those old 1970’s-1980’s Italian sports cars had great gas mileage. I remember one was called the Ronzoni Downhill.
@kasteman113 жыл бұрын
Clunker,.. clunker... clunker... He reminds me of that scene on "Spies Like Us" where the doctors are introducing each other in the medical tent.
@ppaauull385413 жыл бұрын
TO INFORM PEOPLE: maserati bi turbos were wretched cars, they would always break down, and were VERY under-powered... its not a big loss
@98RamMagnum13 жыл бұрын
@34MikeR I agree, if you're buying a car, buy something that ISN'T American, but if you're buying a truck, don't buy anything BUT American.
@stevegardnermax11 жыл бұрын
Destroying any rare car of which very few are left is a crime, and there's no exception!
@torino39015 жыл бұрын
as Maserati's go, that's bottom of the pile, and is no real loss. however, some other owner is probably crying out for some very rare parts you could salvage from a car like that. for that reason, it's a great shame to crush it.
@redmr2na12 жыл бұрын
I hate to say it, but it's probably best to put the poor Biturbo out of it's misery. Maseratis are nice cars, but unfortunately the Biturbo was not one of them. It came out of an era in Maserati history where Maserati had no capitol to properly produce anything. Ghilbis, Boras, Mareks, and anything built before them are some of the greatest Italian cars ever built. The new Maseratis are also nice cars, and back on form to what a Maserati should be. Biturbos, Quattroporte 3 and....
@JungleListSoldier11 жыл бұрын
That's a car you keep in your garage and drive only on Sundays. It's not an everyday car like a Toyota Corolla.
@person149214 жыл бұрын
It has 18 thousand 450 thousand miles on it. A maserati beeturbo... These made me lol
@ace041511 жыл бұрын
if they knew anything about those maserati's they wouldn't have even been surprised it was on the clunker lot.
@SakoTGrimes15 жыл бұрын
I'd like that Nardi steering wheel.
@Joelwee102812 жыл бұрын
You might as well have written, "Yes, I am stupid."
@GneshGnesh283713 жыл бұрын
0:37 "its only got eighteen-thousand four-hundred eighty thousand miles on it" LOL!!
@JungleListSoldier11 жыл бұрын
It's a 1980's Maserati dude. What did he expect it to be as reliable as a 2010 Toyota Corolla?
@HFLanciaStratos12 жыл бұрын
I don't care if it's not a good Maserati, I'd still drive it.
@SirSnivyofNottingham11 жыл бұрын
I don't think you understand. You see, mechanics were forced to kill these cars. The mechanics work for their own living, plus family, too. Quitting would put them at risk of not finding a job, and unable to pay for food. As bad as it is to kill fine cars, they also need to feed themselves and their families, and quitting isn't an option.
@spenceronni714 жыл бұрын
this makes me cry, i would have bought it from a used car lot. id like to punch anyone who was in collaboration with the cash for clunkers program
@compaqdeskpro577012 жыл бұрын
The Biturbo was one of the worst cars Maserati ever produced, and it's still pretty damn cool. Too bad Jay Leno couldn't get ahold of it and rebuild it.
@rhopilema14 жыл бұрын
Yes, the engine doesn't work properly but that's typical Italian engineering - part of the car's soul. I can't believe that they crushed this classic car.
@CraigWeinstein13 жыл бұрын
What an idiot the owner was. If he didn't want it someone else eventually would have. Now it's gone. If it's rare it should never be crushed.
@oscarmacaroni15 жыл бұрын
those of us who pay taxes, paid $24,000.00 PER CAR on average. nice job ODUMBOO.
@satchboogyfan13 жыл бұрын
Sad to see that Maserati go that way I missed out on C for C 5 months before they started this I bought a winter beater jeep Cherokee 4x4 But that's kinda the point It's easier to put gas in a beater than make payments on a car you didn't really want
@Teeebs13 жыл бұрын
The "bee-turbo" was a clunker when it as NEW......lol
@KBear43rd12 жыл бұрын
Even though the Maserati Biturbo was shit, I still would have bought it. This makes me really depressed...
@way2fasts13 жыл бұрын
cash for clunkers was the biggest scam ever i have a 94 f150 d, i could have traded that truck in and got 3500 dollars for a truck thats worth maybe 1500, i could have bought a new one and gotten around the same milage, plus pollute the environment with all the resources taken up to build my new truck and destroy my old one, who ever came up with this idea was a moron.
@fsdude7711 жыл бұрын
That Maserati was like their worst one ever made.
@brizzlefizzle14 жыл бұрын
the old maseratis were trash. The ones nowadays are a million times better.
@gmailftw15 жыл бұрын
It's a BiTurbo, it won't be missed.
@1979lincolncoupe13 жыл бұрын
I have a 79 lincoln town coupe and the government aint getting their grubby hands on it
@dflores01220712 жыл бұрын
If I was working in that dealership... I will stole that car.
@iBuckFush14 жыл бұрын
" it only has Eighteen THOUSAND four hundered and eighty THOUSAND MILES on it" man that thing is a fucking beast!
@Turbojeep2314 жыл бұрын
what they dont tell you is how the car dies. on the rev limiter until it seizes up.
@Shawnerr Жыл бұрын
Same thing with covid shots for humans
@hockeyjack28415 жыл бұрын
257,000 jobs have been lost in the automotive manufacturing industry due to severely decreased NEW car sales which fucks the economy as a result of the current economic climate Whether or not the cars are new, people are still going to need parts and labor due to accidents. As for the affordability of new cars, payments on a new car are usually much lower for the price so in the form of a monthly payment a used car isnt even that much cheaper.
@HollywoodCreeper13 жыл бұрын
Respond to this video... It would probably be $150 every 6 months. To everyone's shock, I've been paying $130 every 6 months since I started insuring my own car at maybe 21.
@HOTRODRICO13 жыл бұрын
@34MikeR thank you, i mean to ruin destroy a perfectly decent piece of transportation is criminal, also to destroy the motor and other parts that someone else could use to maintain or restore the same car is a direct assault on car enthusiasts and sane logic... i mean you could have employed more people and made more money selling the turned in cars and or parts then they recieved in credits or tax breaks..?? they just want people to keep buying cars to bail out the failing car manufactures...
@tubageek200614 жыл бұрын
i dont know whether to like or dislike, i like the video, i dislike cash for clunkers
@luvwetmen11 жыл бұрын
that's my sentiment exactly...why why why destroy it... sell it to someone who needs a car or even the engine.... what a HUGE waste...
@CheetahFoxx14 жыл бұрын
As an American, I can honestly say "NO". Germany makes the best cars. -Volkswagen -Audi -BMW -Mercedes -Porsche -Gumpert -Bugatti (now owned by VW)
@SomeGuyButNotThatGuy13 жыл бұрын
These cars had zero resale value when they were 15 years old, even less now. The Maserati dealership probably laughs every time someone calls for parts. BTW, there wasn't even a Maserati dealership around 15 years ago. Before Fiat/Ferrari rescued the brand, nobody wanted a Maserati much less a bi-turbo, they make Fiats look like Lexus reliability by comparison.
@K2001713 жыл бұрын
18 thousand 480 thousand miles. Accurate readout there buddy.
@vissi8715 жыл бұрын
The Biturbo was a blight on the Maserati name in the 1980s. Not a big loss. Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear dropped an enormous dumpster from a crane onto one of them. Take a look.... watch?v=bkO8y3AxRps
@winningfreak112 жыл бұрын
Damn, I would of paid $3,500 just to say I own a Maserati... Can't believe what's gonna happend to this car...
@raptor908813 жыл бұрын
This car was doomed before it even got turned in. Leather, wood, Italian. It's a f'ukin Maserati but it ran for a good 2 seconds here. All that quality isn't going to do you any good if it can't go anywhere.
@CynicalBastard51112 жыл бұрын
It was traded for a Subaru Impreza. Not even the WRX model...
@fordoverlord13 жыл бұрын
Ohh man, I thought in Germany we are the only ones destroying good shape cars... In the mid 90's, there was a semiliar campaing, but at least nobody need to break the car, it has to be brought to the junkjard. But the guy from the junkjard could take out parts for resale. So we guy rebuild old cars, got at least a better spare part source then...... But all those nice grandpa cars, 20 year old, 50k miles and no rust went into scrap for a new palstic toy....
@jerywilliams14 жыл бұрын
Even if the motor was garbage, someone could swap in a Chevy V8 and make a sweet ride.
@neverfearchrisishere14 жыл бұрын
..Maserati's from the 80's were reknowned for breaking down and being expensive to repair. Still. It would of been a better idea just to rip the original engine out and replace it rather than trash a decent car.
@rob204914 жыл бұрын
Maseratti is a mess of a car. Famous for unreliable supercar. The craftmanship is amazing, I wish I could say the same for electrical and powertrain. Ferrari makes engines for these guys, so it has improved increadably.
@HondaCRF150Rider11 жыл бұрын
"only 18480 thousand miles on the odometer!"
@brunolerchundi092 жыл бұрын
The perfect classic to electrify
@Matt-mh5ud13 жыл бұрын
@OUTLAWZPRODUCTIONZ I know what you're saying but Dodge and GM take the cake, they do have an 8.3L and 8.1L - impressive power output from them both though.
@ryan13knapp14 жыл бұрын
that thing was a bigger piece of trash than most of those suvs.
@cipmars14 жыл бұрын
I hope that all these cars will haunt the lawmakers every night!
@Megadriver11 жыл бұрын
I would have paid 4000$ on the spot. Such cars are classics here in Europe. Can't find a decent one under 20 grand. As for the engine? All itallian cars have engine trouble, but that's part of their character... Really a waste to see someone throw away a piece of art like that. Pretty cars are harder and harder to come by!
@Jgeneraledger2313 жыл бұрын
The President should have said CFC, you trade in a Japanese car, and buy a new American car.
@blackberryboldjeff14 жыл бұрын
@M1ANS I don't mind American cars, but if had to choose I would pick an import. My appologies though :)
@stevegardnermax11 жыл бұрын
Mid 80's Ferrari Mondial's had poor power and problems and still considered the worst Ferrari ever, But you wouldn't destroy one. And you sure cant buy one for 3500.00
@mazinais3113 жыл бұрын
he's so high he made his hair into a maserati logo :D
@WavyGravyTrain113 жыл бұрын
If that car died after 10 minutes of driving it that because he neede 2 new cats for it, its about a 700 dollar job with parts.
@hockeyjack28415 жыл бұрын
yea i would have offered the guy trading it in his 3500 and then gone home and parted it out or sold it to an enthusiast
@samuelowen14 жыл бұрын
Junk yards will go out of buisness, I guess the us government doesn't care about those jobs.
@HigherWisdom14 жыл бұрын
Stupidity and waste. The government is trillions of dollars in debt and has the audacity (with yet more of our money) to literally throw away thousands of usable vehicles.
@PabloRomero199111 жыл бұрын
"It's only got 18 thousand 480 thousand miles..on the 0-dometer"
@chorstma4414 жыл бұрын
Those are all perfectly good cars There are people who dont have cars and would dream of having one of those cars and your crushing it? Cash for clunkers is Fucking Stupid!
@spencerleeb14 жыл бұрын
Bi is pronounced like the word "by" so its "Biturbo"