Best Car Deals – Introduction

January 1, 2012

best car deals and incentives Until a short few years ago, the best way to get a great car deal was … to work hard for it.

What we mean is that you would have to know the best time of day/month/year to buy, know your invoice prices and holdbacks, and know how to skillfully negotiate prices — and be prepared to go into long stressful haggling sessions with dealer salespeople who would try every trick in the book to wear you down — not a pleasant experience.

Not that it still doesn’t happen. It’s even necessary in many cases. But the best car deals are not made that way. Car manufacturers, in these tough economic times, are hungry for your business and are willing to offer ready-made deals that were unheard of in the past. These are deals that buyers could not possibly negotiate for themselves — because dealers are not capable of making the kind of concessions that their deep-pockets parent car companies can make.

Car manufacturers announce new incentive programs almost every month. These are special limited-time deals in the form of customer rebates, “employee” pricing, low-interest loans, 0% APR loans, special leases, loyalty bonuses, “conquest” bonuses, military bonuses, and “hidden” factory-to-dealer cash. The deals are usually limited to certain selected models and styles in any given month. And there may be restrictions, credit requirements, or down payments to qualify.

These monthly deals from car companies are nearly always genuinely good deals — often great deals — and well worth customers’ consideration.

All car companies don’t offer incentives. Some luxury brands never offer advertised incentives which might brand them as a “discounter.” Some have hidden incentives that aren’t made public but are offered to potential customers in the store. Others may offer special lease deals and “bonuses”, but never rebates or discounts.

In summary, the best car deals are the promotional incentives that are offered each month by car manufacturers, which require no negotiation and no stressful haggling. You can get free price quotes from Edmunds or TrueCar. The quotes will automatically include any promotional incentives that are currently available.

We tell you about the best new car deals every month here on this web site, Best Car Deals. Please stay tuned.

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