A Fighting Chance Car Buying

A Fighting Chance Car Buying

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Using our car buying advice and tools, you'll get a great deal that is more than fair for the dealership. If you set out to buy a new car and aren't prepared, then prepare to get ripped off, it's that simple. We'll explain how to get the most out of tools like TrueCar and RydeShopper.

Promising cars like the Blazer EV come years too late to offer Holden a fighting chance to stay in the Australian market, with GM pulling the plug on the Lion brand in February 2020 after 160 years in operation.

From time to time, someone comes up with a new car-buying strategy and broadcasts the good news to legions of weary shoppers. One of the latest advisers is Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, a professor of politics at New York University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Bueno de Mesquita specializes in international conflict, foreign policy formation and nation building, and approaches car buying from his expertise in game theory.

Bueno de Mesquita also is a consultant to the CIA and has been noted for his predictions on when Iran would develop a nuclear bomb. And while his advice on car shopping isn't as dramatic as weighing the possibility of world war, it does describe a winner-loser car-buying process.

While there are several potential problems with this method, the biggest one is that it takes a blatantly antagonistic approach to the dealership's salespeople, presuming they are guilty of their own kind of gamesmanship without giving them a chance to be cooperative in the sales process. For example, if the salesman initially refuses to give a price over the phone, Bueno de Mesquita tells shoppers to say, \"If you don't quote a price to me, I understand that you're telling me you know you don't have the best price.\"

This is true in many areas of sales, but somehow, car salespeople are so universally despised that shoppers believe that mistreating them is justified. Consumers love to swap stories about how to get the best of car salesmen and share \"gotcha\" strategies to strip the dealer of every penny of profit. A few such tactics are hiding the fact that there's a trade-in until the last moment, or pretending to be buying when in fact they are planning on leasing.

Also, many salespeople do not have the authority to quote a price and will have to go to the sales manager to request the best deal they can offer. So for this advice to have any chance of success, callers should put this \"best-price-now\" question directly to the sales manager.

Once shoppers find the Internet path and know how to circumvent the few possible bumps that arise, they have a truly easy way to buy a car. Rather than turning car buying into a zero-sum game, wouldn't you rather walk the nonconfrontational path to a lower price and a faster, stress-free shopping experience

Boykins estimated buying north of $20,000 worth of new equipment, including heavy bags, furniture and other necessities. An extensive makeover of Ruben Campos Community Center also was conducted, with local artists lending their time to beautify the space.

To probe the secrets of car buying and data available on the Internet, USA TODAY invited representatives of six shopping services to a roundtable discussion at the Los Angeles auto show. They were candid, even blunt, and what they said sometimes was shocking.

Another says we shouldn't be surprised. \"Consumers still think the dealer invoice price has some magic to it. It doesn't,\" says James Bragg, head of Fighting Chance, a small car-buying advice service he founded in 1993. \"We let ourselves, over the decades, get conned into believing that a family with a $10 million net worth, of which $7 million is in car stores, is going to let you and me know what they're paying for their cars. Does that make sense to anybody That's nuts.\"

- TrueCar.com(AT) considers itself a buying site, not a shopping site. It costs nothing, but once a user prices a vehicle, he or she is urged to submit information to the local dealer listed at the end of the pricing exercise for follow-up sales calls.

Rodriguez's heart disease was too far gone for additional coronary stents, tube-shaped devices used to open arteries. Besides surgery risk factors and old age, he decided to take a chance with Dr. Shahani, who performed the triple bypass surgery on a heart-lung machine.

Thomson, who has been drawing cars since the age of 4, acknowledged that car design \\\"is changing really, really fast,\\\" but designers like himself and his team of 300 in Gaydon, U.K., \\\"have a better fighting chance\\\" of making a sports car more beautiful than an SUV.

With some critics already writing off the auto industry in the face of tech-driven trends in ride-hailing, electrification, and automation, we lay out why major automakers like Volvo and GM might still have a fighting chance.

For decades Karen, Kachin and other EROs have divided their forces across organizationally separate brigade areas configured for local defense using guerrilla tactics rather than offensive warfare that by definition demands mobility. Some EROs, most notably the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), have been plagued by infighting and breakaway factions.

People wondered if each would survive, but the automaker quickly said it had no immediate plans to discontinue any brands when it merged. It was quite the opposite, with the automaker saying it would give each one 10 years to prove its viability. Stewart reiterated this at the event, saying, \"Everybody's got a fighting chance.\"

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Essentially a re-skinned Toyota, the IS300 used their powerhouse 2JZ inline-six cylinder motor, which was also used in many other cars of the era. With a vast parts database, even the minor repairs are cheap with the amount of available replacement parts. Throw in rear-wheel drive and you have a potent toy at your disposal. This Lexus was made to take on the German sport sedans of the day, and with the quality and dependability, it should have a fighting chance of taking a spot in your garage.

This is the kind of recovery I promised and hope for for the American people, where the biggest benefits go to the people who work the hardest and are more often left behind. The people who have been ignored before. The people who just want a decent chance to build a decent life for their families, just given a clear shot.

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\"This system does not mirror Florida's current economy and is too subject to economic fluctuations,\" he explains. \"It's not capable of meeting Florida's long-term needs.\" The state's 6% sales tax brings in about $17 billion, but some $23 billion in transactions are exempt from the tax. In 1968, the sales tax applied to 68% of Florida's economic activity. Today, however, it applies to only 55%; much of the taxation falls on tourists and fails to capture large chunks of the state's services-driven economy. \"We are increasingly dependent on a relatively shrinking resource,\" he says.Speaking around the state last fall to carefully selected business groups, McKay laid the groundwork for reforming the tax system. His plan would place a constitutional amendment on the November ballot that would reduce the state's sales tax rate from 6% to 4% and broaden the base by levying the sales tax on hundreds of goods and services that are now exempt -- such as haircuts, lawn care and legal services.McKay's plan echoes arguments of vanquished tax reformers before him. Like Jim Smith, the former secretary of state, attorney general and gubernatorial candidate, McKay proposes making the tax reform \"revenue neutral\" -- ensuring the new tax system collects no more revenue at its inception than the system it replaces. Like Bob Nabors, the lawyer-lobbyist and 1998 Constitutional Revision Commission member, McKay proposes putting a stripped-down sales tax in the state constitution and leaving specific exemptions up to the Legislature. Like Larry Fuchs, the former state revenue department chief, McKay warns that the coming losses from internet sales and federal elimination of the estate tax will create a giant hole in the state budget -- to the tune of some $4 billion, says McKay. Like Bob Martinez, the Republican governor whose failed 1988 tax crusade led to his defeat, McKay proposes expanding the tax to services. And like Lawton Chiles, the late Democrat governor, McKay uses the recession-battered economy to validate his call for reform.The planMcKay's plan would work like this: If approved by the Legislature this year, a constitutional amendment would be placed on the November ballot that would lower the sales tax rate and eliminate most exemptions. A handful of categories would continue to be exempt, such as groceries, prescription drugs, healthcare, residential rent and basic phone service. It would be up to the Legislature to determine other exemptions.In addition to rolling back the sales tax rate from 6% to 4%, McKay's plan would eliminate what he calls \"antiquated and inefficient taxes\" -- the tax on alcohol by the drink, the tax on hospital beds to pay for indigent care, the intangibles tax on investments and the sales tax on utilities paid by businesses (which would not be eliminated, but lowered from 7% to 4%).Ever mindful of anti-tax critics, McKay insists the proposal is not a tax increase. \"This is an initiative for smarter government, not bigger government,\" he says. To underscore his point, the amendment would make it harder to raise taxes in the future by requiring a three-fifths vote of both the House and Senate to raise the sales tax or create a new exemption.McKay, who needs a two-thirds vote of both the House and Senate to get a constitutional amendment on the ballot, is ready to use every political lever at his disposal. He has hired the economics consulting firm of Fishkind & Associates to provide data to counter arguments the tax change will hurt businesses. He also has named Sen. Jack Latvala, a Palm Harbor Republican and one of McKay's top lieutenants, as chairman of the Senate subcommittee on congressional redistricting. In that role, Latvala can draw a district that either benefits or harms the congressional aspirations of House Speaker Tom Feeney, who would rather eliminate taxes than broaden the state's tax base.Gov. Jeb Bush has made it clear he doesn't want tax reform on the ballot as he seeks re-election because some may think it means tax increases. The governor can't sign or veto a constitutional amendment proposal, but his opposition could make it difficult to get the votes in the freshman-dominated House. Here again McKay can use reapportionment as a bargaining chip.Uphill battleWith the chilling effect of the terrorist attacks, the rise in demand for state services and the growing state budget deficit, many believe McKay stands a better chance at achieving reform than his predecessors. \"There's a wider awareness that the economic situation we're in now has created a financial problem that's very hard to get out of and maybe it's time we cast the net wider,\" says Latvala.Lance deHaven Smith, professor of public policy and administration at Florida State University, thinks McKay stands a fighting chance: \"We haven't had the stars line up this way in a long time,\" he says. But he and many others think McKay's chances are slim of defeating the speaker, the governor and powerful interest groups ready to spend millions to squash the plan.Jim Smith, the former Cabinet official who proposed a revenue-neutral tax reform while running for governor in 1994, commends McKay but adds, \"It's going to be very difficult to persuade Gov. Bush or Speaker Feeney to endorse any change in the tax scheme. ... Once (Bush has) established his position, he's difficult to change.\"History also is against McKay. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, tax reform in most states succeeds only when the state is desperate for more money, which McKay's revenue-neutral approach doesn't address. McKay, who will retire because of term limits this year, says he will succeed at persuading his colleagues. \"I think it would be very hard to go to constituents and say 'I voted against lowering your taxes from 6% to 4%,' \" he says. \"People can say 'You're now taxing me on my legal fees and haircuts,' but if you buy a $25,000 car, you just saved $500.\"Forces in Tallahassee may kill tax reform again this year, but McKay has enough armor that the effort won't die without a bloody, Republican battle. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('flt_ad-bigbox'); }); Florida Trend 59ce067264

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