Jack Nerad
Jack Nerad
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Automakers have been subsidizing the lower end of the markets to meet CAFE standards.
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The used car market is a lot more regional than people realize,
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The car market is extremely competitive. There are a lot of brands vying for your attention and if you do a reasonable amount of shopping and negotiating, you should be able to get a decent deal yourself.
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The huge growth in large SUVs is essentially over. At the same time there is going to be a very significant market for large SUVs like the Chevy Tahoe. There are just too many people who need what a large SUV does for them.
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There is only so much of a spread between what the dealer pays for the vehicle and the dealer's profits. If you throw a broker in there, you're just throwing in another mouth to feed.
With real estate, it's location, location, location. With a car, it's condition, condition, condition.
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Every product has a cycle, and that one happens to be at the end of its current cycle.
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Financing of over 100 percent of the car's value is not unusual these days.
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Families want their vehicles to do a variety of things. They're toting not only their kids, but other people's kids and they want space, safety and style.
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Maximize everything else you've got going for you,
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I was surprised people put relatively little emphasis on the value of the interior of their car. What we find is a lot of people are losing a lot of money by not paying attention to resale value.
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Large sport utility vehicles are pretty good deals these days - and the money you save will pay for an awful lot of gas.
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Fuel prices have sent people to cars a little bit more, and many of the trucks and SUVs from GM and Ford are at the end of their model life. Frankly, in terms of new models, there's more interesting stuff happening, and it's stronger with regard to the Asians.
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There is an element of the population out there that simply does not want to deal with car salesmen ,