It's been said but many of the dealers just don't take down their listing on Autotraders even when the cars been gone for months. Cars.com is just a search engine that locates vehicles advertised elsewhere. It would be nice if there were some expiration like EBay has on its listings, but I guess Autotrader has an interest in keeping the number of vehicles for sale artificially high.

Those Chrysler "short lease" vehicles that they essential dumped onto the wholesale market at the end of 07/beginning of 08 have for the most part made their way back into buyers hands. There doesn't seem to be a significant number currently for sale on ths forum -- a few, but not many -- and the owner base on this forum is more enthusiastic about the cars than most.