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Cash for Clunkers is over, but top appeal for the affairs has larboard abounding car lots emptier than usual.

The Los Angeles Times reports, “Car buyers who go arcade over the next several weeks may acquisition the alternative a bit thin.” Rich Smith, Chief Financial Officer of a accumulation of California Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep dealerships, told the Times “You’re not traveling to be able to acquisition the car you wish in September.” Glendale Dodge, one of Smith’s dealerships, is reportedly accustomed just 62 cars on its lot this anniversary – almost added than a division of its accepted inventory.

Dealerships are restocking as bound as they can, acclimation new cars from manufacturers. But, Kansas’ Wichita Eagle reports, abounding cars not yet congenital are already announced for. Brandon Steven, Managing Partner of several Kansas Toyota dealerships, told the Eagle that he has a addition of new cars advancing anon from Toyota factories, but “every individual one is assigned to a customer, which agency it’s sold.”

Kicking Tires reports, “Car buyers will acceptable acquire to accord with abbreviate absence for a lot of of September as dealers reload — a action that usually takes 30-45 canicule as factories access up production. Supplies of the Clunkers program’s a lot of accepted vehicles,” including abounding fuel-efficient baby cars like the Toyota Corolla and Ford Focus, “might be abnormally harder to find.”

The curtailment has after-effects for new car shoppers. The rules for acclimation new cars alter hardly by manufacturer, but about speaking, dealerships acquire two options if a chump wants to acquirement a car they don’t currently acquire in stock. They can buy cars from added dealerships – admitting in the accepted shortage, that may not generally be an option. That could aswell be an big-ticket proposition, back two dealerships would again be attempting to accumulation off of the sale. They can aswell adjustment cars anon from the manufacturer, which ability crave the chump to delay some time for the car to be congenital and shipped.

However, The L.A. Times notes, some analysts apprehend “auto manufacturers to be added advancing with incentives and commercial to anticipate a huge bead in sales afterwards the auto affairs expires.”

Used car dealerships are seeing a agnate shortage. The AP reports, “Mom and Pop used-car dealers are activity the crisis as the old Caravans and Cherokees that accommodate their alimentation get traded in and abandoned to junkyards beneath Cash for Clunkers. By some estimates, three of every 5 of the acclimated cars angry in for government rebates would acquire concluded up on acclimated car lots or resold for parts.”

That curtailment will acceptable advance to a acting fasten in acclimated car prices, in allotment because shoppers clumsy to locate a new car may about-face to recent-model acclimated cars instead.

If you’re in the bazaar for a new car, analysis out the U.S.