2010 Car Deals
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 [...]
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 [...]
Dodge Adds New Incentives for December
Dodge has announced new incentives for the month of December 2009 (expires on 01/04/2010). Generally, the new incentives make for some very good deals on many models, especially on leftover 2009 models. Don’t expect any incentives, however, on the hot selling Challenger. Mostly, the Dodge deals come in the form of direct customer rebates and [...]
Where Are the Car Lease Deals?
Currently (December 2009) there are a good number of good car lease deals available from several car companies. These are special deals with lower than normal monthly payments. Among the companies with good lease incentives for December are: Land Rover – 2009/2010 Range Rover and 2009/2010 Range Rover Sport models Jaguar – 2010 XF and XK [...]
New Car Incentives Explained
Selling new cars is a very competitive business. There are thousands of new-car dealers and there are a couple of dozen car companies who make thousands of makes/models/styles of cars. These companies compete for the business of car-buying customers. One way they compete is by offering attractively designed vehicles that have the features, comfort, safety, [...]
Car Deals for December
We write these articles just before the beginning of every month, and every month we essentially say the same thing — that car makers and dealers don’t pre-announce new incentive programs before the old incentives and rebates expire. December car deals are no exception. Many current incentive programs expire November 30 but a number of car makers [...]
Lease Deals and Incentives on Acura for November and December
As you may already know, Acura does not want to be known as a discount car brand which means that incentives don’t come often or in great abundance. For example, we rarely ever see (when was the last time?) direct factory-to-customer rebates. Instead, we typically see more subtle forms of incentives such as low-interest loans [...]
Toyota Deals for November
So far, Toyota has announced very little in the way of incentives for November. There are few deals which we’ll mention below but we feel that other incentives are coming, albeit a little late in the month. However, when the incentives are announced, we expect them to cover the remaining part of November as well [...]
Honda Incentives for November – December
Honda currently has several good deals with its new November-December incentive program. In addition to its now-traditional excellent special leases on certain models and styles (see Honda Lease Deals), three are also some good low-interest loans (unfortunately no 0% loans however) and a number of healthy factory-to-dealer cash deals. As you might know if you [...]
Honda Leases for November – December — Good Deals
Honda has established a now-familiar tradition of offering a few good car lease deals during every incentive period. They have come across again for November and December 2009 (until 1/04/2010). If you’ve been following, Honda always puts its special lease deals on the LX style within most of its model lines — Civic, CRV, Accord, Insight, [...]
Great Ford Deals for November – December
Ford has come through with some of the best deals for November and December. All new Ford incentives end on 1/04/2010. There are many very generous rebates, bonus rebates, and promotional rebates, all of which add up to some incredible deals. To top it off Ford is also offering 0% APR loans on most of [...]
Good BMW Deals in November – Best Deals
BMW has announced new incentives and deals for November — actually November through December until 1/04/2010. Overall the BMW deals are very good, especially on the 2009 models. However, in most cases, the new 2010 models also get good incentives, just not quite as good as the 2009s. As usual, BMW’s incentives are a bit [...]