My nephew is an auto mechanic for a dealership. When he saw the vehicles they were junking, he said those vehicles were better than his car and he would have loved to swap them out.
In 2008, my vehicle qualified as a ‘clunker’. If I had traded it, they would have had to give me $4,000 for it. I kept it until late 2011, traded for a new vehicle and was given $4,000 in trade for it and they didn’t junk it!