Jack Nerad
Jack Nerad
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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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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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The most-researched vehicles list makes it clear that the import manufacturers are doing a better job than the domestic makers in conceiving and producing high-volume vehicles. The Big 3 automakers used to dominate the top sellers, but this list is another indication that imports are mainstream vehicles to a broad cross-section of Americans.
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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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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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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 ,
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I think it's a hard drug to get the consumers off of frankly. We've certainly seen that in our surveys. Many consumers have become very dependent on incentives to motivate them to get up off the couch and into showrooms.
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I think it's a hard drug to get the consumers off of frankly, ... We've certainly seen that in our surveys. Many consumers have become very dependent on incentives to motivate them to get up off the couch and into showrooms.
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You can get more car for the monthly payment that way. The downside is you don't get any equity in the car. At the end of the lease you get zip.