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2006-09-03 18:03:50 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation Buying & Selling

12 answers

The week between Christmas and New Years. Sales are TERRIBLE during December and that week is the worst of a very bad month.

Dealers are winding up the month, the quarter, and the year and are desperate to make their sales quotas for all three. Factory allocations for the next year will be based on the year's total sales and most dealers will take losses, sometimes BIG ones, on late December sales if there is any chance of bumping their allocations for the next year.

I've bought for as little as 15% below dealer invoice AND got all incentives during that week. I sold cars a number of years ago and saw deals go out the door for as much as 25% below dealer invoice on leftovers from the prior year and 20% below for current model year vehicles.

Also, in many states, dealers must pay personal property tax on any vehicle in inventory on January 1st. Anything that is delivered to the customer on or before December 31st isn't taxed. (The customer WILL pay the tax, so make sure that you get that knocked off if your state works that way!)

2006-09-03 20:04:57 · answer #1 · answered by Bostonian In MO 7 · 0 0

End of the month.
Don't try to but the hottest selling car around, they don't deal as well.
Go online and shop for the best deal.
Find out about incentives and holdbacks.
You can ask to deal w/the fleet mngr. (call or email first) they don't make commision and will sometimes sell a car for less.
Walk away if you don't think the deal is fair or it's more then you want to spend.
They NEVER want you to leave the lot !!!
Buy the car based on the price. Make that deal first. The TOTAL cost of the vehicle.NOT on what you want your payments to be. They like to do that.
Try not to finance for more then 5 years.
Good Luck :>)

2006-09-03 18:20:37 · answer #2 · answered by austiezmom 1 · 0 0

end of the year because they have sales to get rid of the old before the next year start. but if ur hoping for a new car wait a couple of years and there might be a car that runs on different source, possibly hyrdogen.

2006-09-03 22:43:39 · answer #3 · answered by supraman126 4 · 0 0

Buy it when the new models of the car are bout to come out so the old one will become cheaper.

2006-09-03 18:15:03 · answer #4 · answered by mr rogers 1 · 0 0

Prices are usually lowest in the winter because most people wait for Spring to buy theirs.

2006-09-03 18:08:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Buy it at the end of the month, they're willing to cut the best deals then.

2006-09-03 18:09:52 · answer #6 · answered by aliisdisturbed 2 · 0 0

The last day of the month when dealers are winding down the sales month and need to get rid of some.

2006-09-03 18:12:25 · answer #7 · answered by randyrich 5 · 0 0

probably february and march when the dealers are trying to clear the inventory before tax time

2006-09-03 18:09:35 · answer #8 · answered by b b 2 · 0 0

during office hours

2006-09-04 01:21:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

after u get ur licence

2006-09-03 18:15:55 · answer #10 · answered by jarrodg2003 3 · 0 1

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