Word on the street is that Johan attempted a serious overhaul of the dealer experience and the stores felt threatned, so that was one of the reasons they booted him.  Read more

Genesis also suffers from the same problem of good cars, terrible dealers. Which is another blog for another time. :) Read more

But that is the whole point, the oringal AN article cited has direct quotes from Caddy corporate that they believe this is the car that will start to turn things around for them...if the 3 new crossovers couldn’t get the job done, I don’t see a nicer/bigger A3 doing the trick.  Read more

So true Read more

I like this idea Read more

I'm sure they can ask around and find a good mechanic. Read more

 I explicitly used the “$400/mo  headline” because folks outside of our core readership are more likely to click on that rather than “Nice cars you can get for $21,000"  but I do go to explain how I arrived at that number while keeping a reasonable loan term. 
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That is why I recommeded a Toyota, lol Read more

If you have a 700+ FICO and your debt/income ratio is good, you would likely qualify for the 0% regardless of down payment on a 25k car or 50k car. Typically your down payment has little to do with your APR nor does the MSRP of the car, it comes down to what programs are being offered and your credit worthiness. Read more

Wow I got meme'd that's so cool. I guess I am officially an "internet person" now. Read more

Yes sometimes a dealer will stamp a brand new car as “sold” and move it into the used fleet. Read more

Thank you for reading! Read more

Serious dealers will go as deep as they can to beat the competition, but they can only go so deep if A) they have additional deaelr cash rebates to do so and/or B) they know by taking a loss on a car now they can make up for it later with unit bonuses.  The letter from reader 1 isn’t some anomoly I’ve spoken with… Read more

I oftn recommend the Atlas Read more

Invoice is typically 3-5% off the MSRP, super high end cars might be upwards of 8%...but there isn’t a 10% markup on a 45k crossover. Read more

Yeah those are base model cars with $3500 due at signing with no tax and fees included. That would be $430/mo with 0 down before tax. These are fully loaded SX trim cars with, 0 down leases including tax. An LX AWD has an MSRP of about $34k-ish. These are $10,000 more. If you take $10,000/36 = $277, then add that to… Read more

I agree that both cars are a lot nicer than the Pilot/Higlander, but paying MSRP or even OVER sticker for a Kia or Hyundai just seems wrong to me.  Read more

In fairness Cody did not call California, “Cali” that was me and every East Coast surfer refers to the Golden State as Cali because it makes us sound cooler than we really are. Read more

Word :) Read more

My wife loves chicken kebabs and I do a pretty decent job with those, but she can eat them all the time and I get tired of it so I will make gound meat Keftedes for myself as a pair to the chicken.  Read more