Car sales gave a big boost to America's economy, but much of that was owing to zero-interest-rate financing and other incentives, which are now reaching their limit.
In the fourth quarter of 2001 consumer spending grew at an estimated annual rate of more than 4%, partly thanks to discounting and zero-rate financing for car purchases.
To that end the best deals we could locate among 2012 compact and subcompact cars were cut-rate financing deals on the highly regarded Chevrolet Cruze compact sedan and the new subcompact Chevy Sonic.