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We were loathe to feature
yet another Cadillac for the Deal of the Week, but in light of the SRT-8's expiration and also in light of the Cadillac CTS-V's worthiness as a V8-powered performance machine, we'll go with that. [Thanks Joe.] With a new high-po entry Caddy not scheduled until next year — a car Bob Lutz says will suck the doors off an M5 — it's a good time to take advantage of a clearance offer on this year's model. It's the 2007 CTS-V, a car that combines a decent platform with the GM's proven LS2 V8 producing 400 horsepower. It's already a good power-to-dollar value at fifty grand. At under fifty, it's a bargain. That's $4,000 cash back or limited interest-free financing. It's like a bargain-basement BMW M3 with secret cred. And when you're out cruising, you can wear either a porkpie hat
or gold chains. There's no need to go with both. [
Cadillac]
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UPDATE: Oh well — it's expired. D'oh. You can still get the '07 300C at a $3500 rebate and zero-rate up to 36 months.] Tired of the performance models always being excluded from automakers' incentive deals? Well, pop a No Doze and check out today's — hold please — Deal of the Week. It's the 2007 Chrysler 300 SRT-8, a car that combines last-gen Mercedes underpinnings with last-gen Chrysler design and factors in a ground-smooshing, 425-horsepower American V8. With cash back of $2000 or zero-rate financing up to 36 months, you'll need some capital to take advantage of the come-on, but at least you won't be upside-down when the sub-prime mortgage crisis starts pulling the securities markets into the fourth ring of hell. In other words, dump that mutual fund now while it's still worth something. Of course, if you live in NYC or a similar premium-insurance state, the five-year cost estimate adds 40 grand to the sticker. But c'mon, it could be way worse, especially for this much fun. And you can always get a used Prius after the next Great Depression. [
Yahoo! Autos]
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Let's say you're looking for a V8-powered roadster. You're flush, but aren't entertaining the typical Germanic options. You want a crisp handler, but that well worn, peak-earning-years ass has seen better days. Getting rattled around like the last Cracker Jack in the box isn't your idea of fun. You like your gadgetry on a limited basis, don't mind a plebeian dash binnacle, but think having radar-guided cruise control might be a hoot. Run-flat tires don't pose a problem, but a cloth top does. Depreciation is a minor inconvenience, but paying full price is out of the question. You've come to the right stretch of incentivization. It's the 2007 Cadillac XLR, a car you haven't though about for at least a year, and neither has anyone else. That's why Cadillac's been offering a $7,500 rebate on the near-$80,000 car for several months. The XLR is a niche of one, a Corvette for retired gearheads. It's pricey, but maybe you don't care about that so much. [
Cars.com]
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What costs six figures, produces 516 lb-ft of torque and looks like something Chris Bangle once scribbled on a cocktail napkin? Exactly, it's the BMW 7-Series in Alpina B7 trim. And for a limited time, you can own one at an interest figure lower than that introductory, adjustable-rate number you got from the shady mortgage broker behind the train station. Of course, with your house now going on the forclosure block, you'll need a place to stay. May we recommend the Alpina B7, which for a limited time you can get at up to 60 months at 3.9 percent. And if you had any equity left in that pressboard Mc Mansion the bank now owns, you could cut your living expenses in half. If you already own a 6- or 7-Series BMW, you can opt for $3500 in cash back in lieu of the financing deal. That way, you can load the trunk with Top Ramen and hot sauce. [
Edmunds]
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In a recent TV spot for Cadillac, a quartet of hipster goofballs in skinny ties pulls up to a diner in a DTS sedan. Once parked, they're confronted by a similar gang of craggy late-fiftysomethings in Jhane Barnes casualwear, apparently on break from a Cialis shoot. Noticing their young counterparts have arrived in the same type of Caddy sedan in which they're leaving, one of the elders says in his best Dennis Hopper, "I see you're drivin' a Cadillac." One of the youngsters replies, in that irony-tinged pattern of speech that signifies a true douchebag, "And I see you're doing the very same."
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Another Saab up on the Jalopnik DotW? Look at it this way, Saab's sales woes are your purchase gains. This week we're intrigued by a $4,000 rebate on the 9-3 SportCombi (among other models). Granted, GM's tenure as steward of the company birthed by aircraft engineers hasn't been the most fecund period in its history. And while things have been looking up for the 9-3, sales numbers haven't budged. The car's still hampered by cliff-face depreciation and GM's front-drive Epsilon platform, which puts it out of the running among RWD-only enthusiasts. But the poky base four — in the previously cryptic "Arc" and "Linear" models — is long gone, replaced in 2006 with a 2.0-liter turbo four producing 210 hp. The 2.8-liter V6 in the Aero model gets 250. Sure the transmission offerings are one cog light, and power numbers...
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Forget for a minute the Saab truck's humble midwestern upbringing. Pretend there's no such thing as a Chevy Trailblazer that gave its hide so a Swedish SUV may live. Sure, a luxury SUV without a luxury platform underpinning it is at best a sophisticated pimp job and at worst a job for the Better Business Bureau. But before we give the open hand to Saab's largest, let's remember Lexus RX buyers rest their oh-so-elite posteriors astride the same architecture born for the plebes' own Camry. The main problem with the 9-7x is its distance from Saab's original brand message. But perhaps up to $7000 off the $40,000 sticker price will make you forget there ever was a 900 Turbo. How about zero-percent financing out to five years? You'll have to pick just one of those deals, but if you can find an unloved specimen at the back of a dealer's lot in New Jersey, you might just get one for the same nut as you would a lowly blazer of trails. Don't thank us, thank flawed decision-making. [
MSN Autos]
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Care for an aging, large-ish SUV from a company fighting for its very existence in the US market? You've come to the proper venue. It's the 2007 Mitsubishi Endeavor, and while it never did get its just props due to its five-seat configuration and off-kilter price-to-value ratio, the Endeavor is a relatively nimble box with a torquey 3.8-liter V6 and decent off-road capability. Sure it only has a four-speed autobox in a field of fives and sixes, but its once-radical styling has already made a quick plunge to dated and come out on the "they still make those?" side of the prestige curve. With a $4,000 rebate on the LS model, and with some fancy footwork against a beleaguered Mitsubishi salesperson looking to move anything but the rented furniture, you could come out ahead. That is, as long as you don't sweat the catastrophic depreciation. [via
MSN Autos]
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Stop snickering. You know you want one, or maybe you don't. Either way, the 2007 Lincoln Town Car could be an ironist's wet dream (don't bother asking Alanis Morissette what that is). It's the kind of car in which you can both cruise to the Hamptons and sell cured sausages door to door. You can strap a surfboard to the roof and look like you've just come from a Citibank commercial, or pull up to out-of-towners at the airport and make a few bucks on the side. Until October 1, Lincoln's offering a $7000 rebate or no-interest financing all the way to 60 months. And just think, with all the airport money you'll make, you'll only be upside-down for three years or so. Of course, by then it'll be worth about ten grand. [
Lincoln via
MSN Autos]
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Despite its elongated jelly bean looks and decade-old Australian underpinnings, the current Pontiac GTO is a fun, rather unsung muscle car. At least it's got both a V8
and rear drive, which is rarer these days than a news cycle without a bleary-eyed Lindsay Lohan mug shot. As the model winds down, however, there are deals aplenty. Right now, Pontiac's offering an incentive of zero percent financing for 72 months on all remaining 2006 Pontiac GTO models.
GM Inside News says there are around 1,000 in stock. Have at 'em, but don't get upside down on the loan, and avoid the automatics and their dang ol' gas-guzzler tax. [via
GM Inside News]
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