2010 Car Deals
Good BMW Deals for March-April 2010
As you may know, BMW is a little shy about seeming too anxious to sell or lease you a car. They don’t want you to think they are a discount car brand, like all the others. However, in these times of slow sales for all, BMW manages to slip in some pretty good deals without [...]
Toyota Deals So Far
Given Toyota’s highly publicized problems with some of its models, we expected to see some of the best incentive offers in the company’s history. Those offers are now becoming available, although a little slowly and not yet quite as aggressively as we expected. The new Toyota deals, which end on March 31, 2010, although attractive, are [...]
Where Are the March Car Deals?
As always, at the end of each month, we find people looking for next month’s car deals — in this case, looking for March 2010 deals. And our answer is always the same each month. We don’t know and neither does anyone else. Car manufacturers don’t announce new incentive plans until the old plans expire. This month, [...]
Biggest Dealer Cash Incentives for February
What are dealer cash incentives? Why should automotive consumers be interested? Dealer cash is ”secret” money given to dealers by car manufacturers to help them sell cars. Dealers can use the money for advertising, sales promotions, or, more commonly, as price discounts to customers. In other words, the money usually flows from the factory to [...]
Mercedes Lease Deals for February
Mercedes is currently offering good lease deals on at least one style in each of its 2010 model lines. These deals are good through February 2010. As you know, Mercedes likes to be viewed as a luxury brand and rarely offers direct rebates or explicit price discounts. However, by offering special lease deals, which is [...]
Best Deals on GM Cars
General Motors (Chevrolet, Buick, Cadillac, Hummer, Pontiac, GMC, Saturn, Saab) is offering some excellent incentives for February in the form of rebates, low-interest loans, and dealer cash. These deals expire on 3/1/2010. Deals are especially good on 2009 models, which GM apparently still has plenty of inventory. Don’t expect to see outstanding deals on 2010 models until [...]
Ford Incentives for February
Ford is offering new rebates, promotional bonuses, and low interest rates (including some 0%) for February 2010. These deals expire on 3/1/2010. As usual, if you like one of the Ford deals, you must choose either the rebate, or the low-interest loan, but not both. However, Ford is doing something a little different in that [...]
Lease a Land Rover
Land Rover is currently offering special lease deals on some of its models for February and March 2010 — until 3/31/2010. This is a great way to be able to drive a Land Rover luxury vehicle but, unless you understand how car leasing works, we advise taking the time to learn before you decide to [...]
Suzuki Offers Rebates and Loans for February
Suzuki has some excellent car incentives for February, in the form of customer rebates and low-interest loans — and a few 0% APR loans. Some of the deals are on 2009 models, where you’ll find the best deals. But the 2010 model deals aren’t bad either. Here are the current Suzuki deals for February (until [...]
Great Honda Lease Deals for February
Honda has always managed to have some of the best lease deals in the industry — every month. February 2010 is no exception. In fact, Honda is offering more deals this month than usual. Typically, they only have special leases on one style within each of its model lines. It’s usually the low-end LX versions. [...]
Car Deals February 2010
We see people near the end of every month looking for information about new car deals and incentives for the next month. It’s no different this month with queries about new February incentives. And we tell them the same thing every month. Car manufacturers never announce a new month’s incentives (rebates, low-interest loans, lease deals) [...]
Big Dealer Cash on BMW – January and February
As you may know, BMW doesn’t want you to think of them as a discount car brand. Therefore you will rarely see direct factory-to-customer rebates or extensive low-interest loans. However, BMW offers “back door” price discounts by giving dealers money (“dealer cash” or “marketing support”) in the form of factory-to-dealer rebates on certain models during [...]
Low Loans and Rebates on Nissan for January
Nissan has announced its January 2010 new-car incentives and they look pretty good, especially on leftover 2009 models. There are customer rebates, low-interest loans, 0% loans, and a few good lease deals. The lease deals are genuinely good deals except that only a few models and styles have the deals. So, if you like the [...]
Good Deals on Ford Vehicles for January 2010
Ford’s new car incentives for January are good, although not great. There are some decent customer rebates, but the best news are the zero percent loans on their new 2010 models. All the current deals expire on 2/1/2010. As you probably know, you can’t take both a rebate and a low-interest loan. You have to [...]
General Motors Best Car Deals for January 2010
General Motors (Chevrolet, Buick, P0ntiac, Saab, Cadillac, Hummer, GMC, Saturn) is currently offering some of the best deals and incentives among all the car makers for January. The GM deals are in the form of direct customer cash rebates and low-interest loans, with a number of 0% APR loan deals as well. All the current January incentives [...]
2010 Infiniti Deals for January-February-March
Infiniti is currently offering incentives on 2010 vehicle models (and one 2009 model) that end on March 31, 2010 — As always, Infiniti doesn’t want to be viewed as a “discount brand” and doesn’t offer direct customer rebates. But it does offer dealer cash, which are ”hidden” rebates from the manufacturer to the dealer. The dealer then [...]
Get a Deal on a Hummer in January
As you may know, General Motors will no longer be making the Hummer brand. However, there are Hummers, both 2009 and 2010 models, still around for sale — at great bargains. Some of the incentives for January 2010 are in the form of factory-to-dealer cash (marketing support) that dealers give back to buyers in the [...]
Dodge Deals for January 2010
Dodge is offering some decent rebates and 0% APR (and low interest) loans on many of it’s new 2010 models. These deals end on 2/1/2010. Here are the deals currently being offered by Dodge on it’s 2010 models: Dodge Avenger – $2000 rebate, 0% interest loan for 36-60 months, 1.9% interest for 72 months Dodge [...]
BMW Deals for January-February 2010
BMW has announced new incentives for January 2010, mostly in the form of low-interest financing. However there are also several cash rebates and some big factory-to-dealer cash on a couple of models. We see no special lease deals on the table at this time, although this could change later. BMW‘s new incentives are good during [...]
Hidden Dealer Cash for Big New-Car Discounts
It’s called “dealer cash” or “marketing support” or “factory-to-dealer rebate” but it’s all the same thing. It’s “secret” money that car manufacturers give to dealers for each car sold, out of sight to dealers’ customers. When a dealer or manufacturer has too many of certain vehicles and sales are slow, the manufacturer will encourage him [...]
Best 2009 Year-End Deals on New Cars
Nearly all car manufacturers add special year-end incentives at the end of the calendar year, normally a slow sales period. This year — 2009 — is no exception. The best deals are coming from American car makers such as Ford, GM, and Chrysler. If you want to take advantage of special end-of-year deals, you have to [...]
2010 Car Deals – Better or Worse?
As we enter the first months of 2010, we find the automobile industry in sad shape. Sales are at record lows. Entire brands, such as Pontiac and Saturn, have disappeared. Manufacturing has been cut back on remaining brands. Fewer models are being offered. Dealerships have gone bankrupt or cut out by their car makers. That’s [...]
Best Car Rebates for December
Car sales in December are typically slow. So car manufacturers and dealers try to do the things that help improve sales during this period. One of those things is a factory-to-customer rebate incentive. Rebates come from car manufacturers as a way of reducing vehicle purchase prices, which helps increase sales. When a customer buys a [...]
0% APR Loan Deals – Good Deal or Not?
Car makers are offering 0% APR loans (zero percent interest) as incentives on many makes and models during these times of slow car sales. Sounds great. But is it really? What does it really mean? Let’s take an example in which you agree to buy a car and finance $15,000 for 48 months at 6.70% [...]
Good Chrysler Deals for December
Chrysler has announced new incentives on its line of vehicles for December 2009. These incentives expire on January 4, 2010. The new Chrysler incentives are in the form of direct factory-to-customer rebates, zero-percent loans, low-interest loans, and “hidden” factory-to-dealer rebates that are usually applied as price discounts. The Chrysler company has announced no special lease [...]