Car Deals
Chrysler Group – Rebates, Leases, and 0% Loans
The Chrysler Group (Chrysler, Dodge, Fiat, Jeep, and Ram) is currently offering many very good incentives for May 2012. These incentives, all on 2012 vehicles, come in the form of sizable rebates, special lease deals, and 0% interest loans. Of course if all these incentives are available on the vehicle you want, you must choose the one that [...]
Cheapest Cars – Best Deals
Many people who are looking for affordable new cars will find the lowest prices on smaller vehicles. These are vehicles that offer a lot of value for the money, provide excellent gas mileage, and are cheap to insure. The lowest priced models are often base models and sacrifice engine size and expensive features. For a [...]
Car Deals Outlook for May 2012
We always start a little early looking at car deals for the upcoming month, which is May 2012 in this case. As you may know, most car dealers and manufacturers offer incentive programs on new cars every month. The programs start around the first of the month, usually on a Tuesday, and end around the [...]
Good Car Deal – or Not?
1. A car dealer offers you what seems like a good price on a brand new car. Is it a good deal or not? Should you expect to do better? There are two prices that are important to know when buying a new car. One is the MSRP (Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price) or “sticker” price [...]
Subaru Lease Deals
Subaru is currently offering lease deals on nearly every model and style within its model line. See the table below. These deals are offered in a variety of lease terms (lease months). All have a 12,000 miles-per-year mileage allowance. Each requires a down payment, as specified in the table below. Following are the current lease [...]
Hyundai – Great Deals on Great Cars
Hyundai has been selling cars in the U.S. for over a decade and in that time has gone from being one of the worst to one of the best car brands. The company is currently selling cars faster than they can make them. There is a shortage on some models such that some dealers have [...]
How to Get the Best Car Deals
On this web site we write about promotional car deals and incentives being offered month to month by car companies and their dealers. The deals are usually well worth customers’ consideration and better than deals they could negotiate for themselves. These deals come in the form of cash-back rebates, bonuses, low-interest loans, factory-to-dealer cash, and special [...]
Car Deals for April 2012
Normally car companies don’t announce new incentives and special deals until just after the beginning of a new month, as will be the case for most companies for April 2012. However, the Chrysler Group (Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Fiat, and Ram), General Motors (Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick, and GMC), as well as Honda (Acura and Honda) have [...]
Best Car Deals 2012 – Introduction
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 [...]
Cash or Loan? 0% APR or Rebate? Lease or Buy?
We frequently see cars being advertised with simultaneous lease and purchase deals. There might be a cash rebate, a 0% APR loan rate, and a special lease deal being offered at the same time. You have to choose only one of the offers; you can’t combine them. So which is best? Let’s examine it from a [...]
Best Rebates from General Motors
As usual, American carmakers are offering the largest and best rebates in the industry. This is especially true for General Motors (Cadillac, Cheverolet, Buick, GMC) for February 2012. GM’s rebates are better than either Ford or Chrysler this month. These GM rebate offers end on February 29, 2012. Most of the GM vehicles also have [...]
Leftover Mercurys Make Great Deals
As you may know the Ford Motor Company announced last year that it would terminate the Mercury brand and focus its attention on its remaining products. Although no more Mercury vehicles are being made, dealers still have leftover inventory and are offering them at very attractive prices based on heavy factory-to-dealer rebates. These rebates are [...]
Car Deal Outlook – November 2011
As you may already know from reading our postings on this web site, car manufacturers and dealers announce new incentives every month. Next month’s deals may be better or worse, or about the same, as this month’s. We won’t really know what November 2011 car deals will look like until a few days into the month [...]
Factory-To-Dealer Cash Incentives for Best Car Deals
Car companies help dealers sell cars by offering incentives. Incentives come in a variety of forms which might include direct-to-customer rebates, low interest loans, special lease deals, and factory-to-dealer cash. In any given month, a car company might offer all, some, or none of these incentives on any particular car model or style. Factory-to-dealer incentives [...]
Who’s Buying What – Top Ten Vehicles
Ever wonder what cars other people are buying? Maybe you need a new car but are not the type of person who spends hours and days reading car magazines, visiting car web sites, talking cars with friends, or comparing cars at dealers. You simply want a good car at a good deal without needing to be [...]
Credit Scores Affect Your Car Deal
Your credit score is a numerical representation of your credit history report, which includes details of all your credit accounts and loans, and how good you’ve been about paying them. It also reports any defaults, repossessions, or bankruptcies. Credit scores, which for most people falls between 400 (poor) and 800 (excellent), are a major factor in determining the [...]
Better Car Deals in September?
We’re a little ahead of time but we think we already have some good clues about car deals in September 2011. To be clear, car companies don’t announce new incentives until after old incentives have expired. August incentives will end on August 31, or September 5, or September 6, depending on car company. New deals [...]
Car Deals and Incentives – August 2011
Most car companies have announced new car incentives for August, which we discuss later in this article. However, some companies announced incentives last month which extend into this month. General Motors announced incentives in July that are good through August 2011. The company’s brands, Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, and GMC, have deals on most of their vehicles, [...]
Why Are Leases Better?
Why are special lease deals offered by car companies better than any other type of incentives? It’s true that lease payments are always less than loan payments for the same car, same term, and same down payment — even with a 0% APR loan. But that doesn’t necessarily make leasing a better deal. And it [...]
How the Best Car Deals Are Made
Many people think the way to get the best car deal is through shrewd negotiations and hard bargaining with car dealers. Not true. That’s old outdated thinking. The best deals are the ones that are given to you, with no negotiation required, by automakers and their “captive” finance companies. You see, dealers control only one [...]
Cheapest Car Leases for June
Automakers are offering special car lease deals for June 2011. Many have payments less than $200/month. All the deals expire either on June 30 or July 5, depending on company. All are based on either 10,000 or 12,000 miles per month and require an amount due at signing, which includes a down payment and first months [...]
Car Deals for May 2011
The recent earthquake in Japan has had a seriously damaging effect on the automobile industry. It has directly affected Japanese carmakers such as Honda, Toyota, Nissan, and Mazda to the point that production has been significantly reduced and, in the case of some models and styles, actually halted. However, the indirect effects may be even [...]
New Car Deals for April 2011
As we expected, manufacturer-sponsered new-car deals for April are fewer and less aggressive than in previous months. You have to look a little harder to find good deals and incentives. Much of the reason for the decline this month was precipitated by the huge earthquake in Japan in March. Many Japanese car manufacturers were knocked [...]
Honda Brings Back $0-$0-$0 Leases for March-April
We can always count on Honda to offer some of the best car lease deals in the industry. And they have done it again for March 2011, as well as April 2011. The new special leases from Honda come in the form of $0 down, $0 security deposit, and $0 first month’s payment with 12K [...]
Lots of Subaru Lease Choices – Some $200 or Less
Subaru currently has some of the best and most flexible new-car lease incentives in the business right now. These special lease deals are good through Februay 28, 2011. Deals are being offered on practically every Subaru model and style in a variety of lease terms (length of lease), including 36 months, 39 months, and 42 [...]