Consumer Law

Owner Uses Clunker Program to get Rid of a Lemon Maserati

By Kemnitzer, Anderson, Barron, Ogilvie & Brewer

The Associated Press reports that a Subaru dealer in Golden, Colorado, did a double-take when a customer drove up in a 1985 Maserati Biturbo with 19,000 miles on the odometer. The owner, who had been trying without success to sell the car on his own, offered it in trade-in on a new Subaru Impreza. The biTurbo qualified for the Cash for Clunkers program under which the owner received $3,500.

Wes Guthrie, a salesman at Go Subaru, said the Maserati owner had complained ?that he could drive it down the road for about 10 minutes, and then he had to call his mechanic.?

The Biturbo was one of the worst lemon cars ever built. KABO attorneys alone represented about 15 biTurbo owners back in the 1980s.

Full post as published by Lemon Law Blog on August 30, 2009 (boomark / email).