So I've been looking for a new car and finally found something that had almost everything I was looking for in the correct interior and exterior colors. I worked out a price with the dealer and was ready to drive almost 300 miles to get the car. I had them send a buyers order with everything totaled up so I could get the check from my bank and i see this.
Almost $1400 worth of junk I don't need or want in addition to the almost $1500 of doc fees and other silly dealer fees. The salesman claims they put these on every car they sell and refuses to remove them. I told them to keep the car. I guess they figured they weren't making enough off of the price of the car and weren't going to make anything on financing or a trade so they had to drain some extra money out of me one way or another. Do people really let dealers pull stuff like this with them?
Finally... someone that knows the business!
I work for a GM dealership, but i'm not a salesperson, i'm in the parts department.
We buy new cars because we don't know how the used car was treated.
Absolutely not, i'd start looking not local. Thats ridiculous.
I bought a GMC truck years ago when they first came out with the Jimmy. I said I would not pay a cent more for the car then they stated me and I also said the engine has to be made in the USA.
The guy said, I have no place to put that in the contract. I said, see that little white space at the top? Put it there, and he did.
In those days, you had to order the car.
The thing came in and there was no back seat so they said I had to pay $250.00 for the seat.
I said, look at the note on top of the contract.
They did and I got the car and seat for the agreed on price and we checked the engine serial numbers to make sure it was American.
I recently bought this Jeep from a dealer that only sold two year old cars back from lease. I think on the window it said $15,000.00
They gave me the car for exactly $15,000.00. They charged no dealer fee, plate transfer fee, Dealer Prep fee, no fee fee, no nothing. That was the exact price and they gave me a thousand dollars more for my other car than I asked for.
I told them I was Veteran and they took off another $1,500.00 for the car. They even took a picture of me next to the car with the ribbon and a cookie with a picture of the car on it. That made the deal.
Unfortunately this is true. I found out later that my Jeep was built in Italy (like my Grand Parents)
But when I bought my GM truck, they were still made in the US.
I am not sure I would have bought my Jeep If I knew it was made in Europe.
But at least it has an American Name. Jeep used to be the ultimate, 100% American car and I had the original military model from Willy's.
Now I at least have to buy something with an American name and I will never have a Toyota, Mitsubishi, Nisan, "Fiat", Mazda, Volkswagon, Royals Royce, Lamborghini, Mercedes or any of those cars even though I know cars like Toyota's are mostly made in the US.
I just wouldn't be comfortable in them.
I know, it's just me. It's just the Veteran in me and I realize I can't buy an American car and at my age, I can no longer build my own cars like I used to from US parts.
(I also used to be an Oldsmobile mechanic in the 60s)
