Car Pro Radio Show August 16 25 Hour 2

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The most stolen car in America.

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Let's go to the phones.

We'll talk to Wayne in Long Beach, California.

Hello, Wayne.

How could I help you, sir?

Hi.

So I've been downsizing.

I'm 77 now.

And I've got a 68 Cadillac with 80,000 miles on it, a CTS.

And I've got a 2011 Dodge Ram diesel with a six-speed manual

with 140,000 miles.

I want to get rid of those.

And I've got limited space to park a car in the garage.

And I'm looking for a small pickup truck.

And I've been to about 10 dealers.

And the smallest truck I can find

so far is the Ford Maverick.

And I wonder if anybody else is building a side.

What I'd like is I'd like to have one about the size

of the first generation Ford Ranger.

Yeah.

Now, the Maverick's the smallest, the smallest

that I know of, the Hyundai Santa Cruz

is actually just a little bit larger.

Now, the one that's coming out that might be of interest

to you, I don't know, if it happens.

And I'd preface it with a big if because it's Jeff Bezos

and the guy that owns Amazon.

He's coming out with a really small electric truck.

And I don't know if electric's any interest

if you have any interest in those or not.

But it looks to be a good foot and a half smaller, shorter

than the Maverick.

And it's going to be a low cost truck.

He says he's going to get that truck

to come in around $20,000.

It's still a year or so away.

But I have Amazon delivery drivers.

At my house every single day.

And as good a job as they do with that doesn't necessarily mean

they'll make a great vehicle, especially an electric one.

So I'm I'm a little bit concerned about, you know,

it says first, is it going to happen?

Secondly, if it does happen, how good is it going to be?

How long is it going to last?

What's the range because the electric car with short range

is just basically worthless.

But I mean, the Maverick is pretty small.

Have you have you driven a Maverick, Wayne?

I drove it around the block of the dealer.

What did you what do you think?

Because I really liked it.

It seemed to have a lot of pep.

Yeah, you probably drove the hybrid,

which does have a lot of power and gets 42 miles to the gallon,

which is amazing.

So, you know, I think that's the safe bet.

You can still get a hybrid for 30 grand or less

if you don't get a top of the line.

Lariat, you can get one for about 30 grand.

I think that's probably the answer for you now.

I don't know other than that electric truck.

I don't know that we'll see anything smaller than that.

They get smaller than that.

There's really no use in having a pickup

because it doesn't have any doesn't have any capacity.

I appreciate the car, Wayne.

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Lots of good stories every single week in the CarPro Newsletter.

Quick Ships is the place you ought to go for that.

Jerry takes some stories, and the auto industry has his commentary on them

and some interesting reading, including the fact that Ford is going to pay somebody

a six-figure salary if you're good at naming stuff.

Name it all the cars.

That's a special talent to name it the right thing, right?

Sometimes you don't do so well.

Yeah, and I shake my head sometimes.

I wonder, what were they thinking when they named this car to this?

You know, and they go through what I call alphabet soup.

Some car companies do.

Some do letters and numbers, but there's just nothing to take

the place of a good, sexy name for a car.

You know, and you look back through history at some of some of them.

You know, the Malibu.

Yeah. I mean, doesn't it bring good thoughts?

It does.

You think of Malibu, California.

You think of the ocean.

You think of the beaches.

Yeah, yeah. That makes me happy.

Yeah, and that's the feeling you want to have when you, you know,

the imagery that you conjure up with a car name like that,

because it's got to reflect something positive and it's got to kind of,

you know, be tied into the vehicle somehow as well.

Yeah. And I mean, Ford had a probe.

You remember that one?

I do.

Little two-seater piece of crap.

Nice headed, by the way.

And who says?

Yeah, thanks.

I was last minute.

Who says who says that every Ford.

SUV has to start with an E.

Who made that rule?

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

I mean, Expedition's a nice name.

Yeah, Explorer.

Explorer, that's OK.

Escape.

OK. Yeah, maybe.

It makes me think of jailbreak.

Things like that.

So that's not the direction they were hoping for, but.

Edge. Yeah.

Edge, OK. Well, yeah.

You're running out of ease at that point, though, aren't you?

I mean, in my mind, yeah.

Yeah, I get it.

So they're going to pay somebody

six figures hourly to name their cars.

That's OK.

Well, I hope that works out for them.

I'll do it for less.

That's right.

I will. I'll save you some money.

There you go.

Let's talk to Ferris in Tombaul, Texas, close to Houston.

Ferris, what is going on, my man?

Hey, Jerry.

Hey, Todd, how you guys doing today?

It's a beautiful day.

Thank you.

Great. Thanks, guys.

Hey, a quick, really quick question.

I'm looking at leasing and I'm considering leasing and saying, OK, guys,

what would it cost you a three year lease?

What would it cost me if I just like write you a check?

Is that, you know, if I'm able to do that

because I'm going to sell a car that I own?

Would that be advantageous, cost wise for me?

Yeah. What do you think?

Yeah, it's called a prepaid lease.

I just had an article last week in my free newsletter about.

Oh, gosh, you know, when I get the newsletter, I'm to miss that one, darn it.

Yeah, prepaid leases.

I've done three of them in the past 10 years.

The advantages are the obvious, simple one is, you know,

I have to write a check every month or have your account debited for a lease

payment, but secondly, there's always better incentives on a prepaid lease.

And there should be because they're using your money for three years for free.

So in Texas, where tax credits are a big deal on leases,

you'll typically a prepaid lease will have tax credits.

That saves you the sales tax on that lease.

That's a big deal.

When I I did two prepaids on new corvettes

and in both cases, I got the I got the the tax credit

on the lease and they had a point zero, zero, zero, zero, one lease factor,

which is as close to zero percent interest as you can possibly get.

There's some goofy law in Texas that you can't you have to charge

some interest on leases.

So point zero, zero, zero, one is, I mean, it's pennies in interest.

So between those two on those two corvettes,

it was a savings of about eight thousand dollars a car.

And so, yeah, I just wrote one check was done with it at the end of the lease.

I had the same privileges that everybody else that leases does.

It's a good way to go if you're able to write that check.

Now, what I wrote about and this is on my F.A.Q.

page, by the way, about prepaid leases.

But what I actually wrote about was the prepaid on electric leases

because of the seventy five hundred dollar federal tax credit

that is going away at the end of September.

And I mean, I had my Dallas Toyota needle this morning

on a on a Prius Prime plug in hybrid.

You can write one check for seventy two fifty and have a car for three years.

That's cheap. So yeah, that's a good way to go.

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And Leslie in Baytown, Texas.

Welcome, Leslie, I can help you.

Hey, Jerry. Well, I have a couple of questions.

I'm looking at getting a Lincoln Corsair.

I was wondering how roomy it was in the back for adults.

It was OK. I had it not long ago.

When I say OK, let me temper that.

OK, kind of depends on if they're normal sized.

As you people, you know, if it's OK,

if they're not overly tall or overly large,

two people will fit very nicely back there, actually.

I was a bit I was a bit surprised at the room back there.

Good leg room, good head room up to about six feet, maybe just slightly more.

But yeah, it's it's fine.

If you want to look at my review, go to car pro dot com.

Use the search box up at the top.

Just put Corsair in there and it will pull it'll pull right up.

And I've got pictures of the back seat and the cargo area.

So you can see it.

Oh, that's wonderful.

And I give you, yeah, I give you all the dimensions too.

And every one of our reviews, I give you dimensions on cargo area by cubic feet.

You know, overall length of the vehicle.

This is a little larger than most compact SUVs.

It's grown through the years.

And back because this used to be called the MKC

back when Lincoln Lincoln was doing letters.

We were just talking about that.

Yeah, we were driving me crazy.

Make me nuts.

Yeah, the letters in the alphabet are very good to me.

Now, as a as a recent as a woman buying a car

on my own, would it be better to lease or buy?

I tend to keep my car as a good ten years.

If you're going to keep it that long, just buy it up front

because there's zero percent financing.

And if you can borrow their money for free, do that.

And keep your money available for something else.

Or right now, while interest rates are still high,

your money can make you five, five and a half percent.

Use their money by the front.

Get the zero percent.

Gilbert Thomas is my man at Bayway Lincoln.

That's going to be pretty close to you on the Gulf Freeway.

Go over and see Gilbert and tell him I sent you

and he'll get you hooked up, I promise you.

But yeah, I'd buy it up front.

There's no I love leasing.

But if you're going to keep it ten years, it'll cost you more.

It takes years to learn all about buying or trading cars.

And chances are you haven't reached that year yet.

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newsletter story that may affect some folks in California.

Six automakers still bound by California emission laws.

This is, uh, um, I just had that a second ago.

BMW, Ford, Honda, Volkswagen, Volvo, and Stellantis complying with those targets.

Now, uh, President Trump eliminated, I guess the emissions, uh, act that they had

to follow much, not all of it, but pretty much.

Yeah.

So now these others still have a voluntary agreement.

Is that what I'm saying?

In Stellantis, the deal they made was the worst.

They have got to, I mean, for years.

California ruled emissions.

I mean, they had their own emissions and rather than all the automakers having

to have two different emission systems in cars that was going to California.

Cause there was, there was a time when there was such a thing as California

emissions, you'd see it on the winter sticker cars.

Remember that?

Sure.

And then they made them uniform based on the California rules.

One of the problems the automakers are having is the switch between presidents

and the policies that follow, which are in about phase.

Really?

Yeah.

And, and so here we are.

Yeah.

You know, we went through the last administration with pushing

electric cars so hard and the $7,500 rebates and all the charging stations

that were supposed to be popping up and all that.

Yeah.

All the money spent on charging stations across the country.

Right.

You know, I mean, it just was the mandates of fuel economy for the future

that were, the automakers had to try to figure out how to hit and couldn't.

Yeah.

And then a new administration comes in and guts everything.

Yeah.

So, yeah, some of the automakers had made voluntary

deals with California and they're sticking to them.

And Stellantis is, is the one that there was no wiggle room whatsoever.

And they have to, they have to be a certain number in just a couple of years

that there's no way they can hit.

So I don't know where this is going, but we'll see.

Yeah.

Because if, if, if Stellantis, Dodge Crosser G Brown has to be at the number

that they agreed to be at, they, if they hold them to that,

they're going to, they're going to have a serious problem on their hands,

especially when Kim Kaneskas, who's the president of Dodge, who's been

on this show, he's bringing the Hemis back.

Yeah, that was great news.

He ain't taking fuel economy.

No, not at all.

The Challenger electric car is great as it is.

And I almost leased one myself.

It's been a dud as far as sales.

Yeah.

Great car.

You don't think of those two in the same vehicle.

So they're going back to Hemis.

Yeah, yeah, good for them.

This is going to be interesting to see.

Yeah.

All right.

Let's go to Wes in Wayne, Texas.

Wes, welcome.

I can help you.

Hi, it's Winnie, Texas.

Oh, Winnie, Texas.

I know right where that is.

Yes, sir.

My question is this sometime between now and the end of the year,

probably the last week of December, I'm going to buy new or late models

used Corolla Crossover, Honda HRV or Wildcard Mazda CX-30.

Yeah, I'm I'm pretty confident that the first two will last 10 years,

200,000 miles plus.

How does a how does the Mazda CX-30 stack up to that as far as longevity

and reliability in your opinion?

I kind of don't think it's as good and I love Mazda.

But that particular one has had some issues through the years.

I think that's I think that's a little bit of a risky buy.

The Corolla Crossover is, you know, a Toyota Corolla, probably one of the best

cars ever made, especially in a compact.

And it took it to Corolla with an SUV body on it.

They call it an SUV.

I kind of don't think it is, but that's that's their business.

It's still a good car.

So it's the HRV has been great.

The HRV is one that I would, if I were you, I would certainly look at used

because they don't hold their value very well.

And untypical, untypical of a Honda.

Usually, Honda holds a value really well.

This one hasn't.

And I think some people just find it to be too small.

And it's when they're brand new West, it's not a very big leap up to

a CRV. So I think most people go to CRV and in HRV, sales are not great.

And when you get a vehicle that doesn't sell great new, it has lousy resale value.

So if you're looking used, lousy resales exactly what you want

because that's where the bargains are.

So, you know, personally, I'd tell you to go with a new Corolla

Cross because they're they're very well priced.

They've typically got some decent incentives on them, at least a low interest

grade, if not a rebate.

And everybody that I've talked to that had a Corolla Cross absolutely loved it.

Sets up a little bit better.

It's a little easier to get in and out of.

So I'd probably go with a new Corolla.

But if you can find a HRV with a good history report and low miles,

it's going to be cheap and you're going to save yourself a bunch of money.

Great. And quick comment about one of your car pro dealers.

I stopped into community Toyota this week to see in the back end

of the Corolla crossover how much room it has.

I told them up front, I was not buying a car today.

They treated me like I had $50,000 ready to spend.

It didn't matter.

Very polite, very helpful, very nice.

And that's where I'm going to get a car that or community Honda.

Yeah, those stores have been a real blessing, I got to say.

I've been so pleased with the way they treat my listeners there.

And they're just it's just a good organization.

And you find that with dealerships.

If if they have multiple dealerships of different brands,

there is a common denominator where they're all the same

from the standpoint of customer satisfaction and customer service.

And it flows through the service to after the sale.

So, yeah, that would be a great move for you when you're ready

to to buy from them.

I've been really impressed with them that we've only been with them

about six months, but man, have they done a good job.

Hey, can I make one more comment?

Yes, you and your your show.

I asked I asked Chat GPT about you guys

and they said you might get a better deal elsewhere,

but on average, the car pro dealerships, on average, will save you money.

I didn't know that.

I'll take that.

I use Chat GPT myself.

I never checked myself.

Hey, I like you.

How about that? Who knew?

Yeah. Now, it tells you right there, right there on the screen,

Chat GPT can make mistakes, but they got that one right.

That's right. Yeah.

If somebody wants to go out and shop one of my dealers

and try to beat them, their price by 100 bucks,

they're going to do that every single time.

But guess what?

It's going to take hours to do it.

And I don't know if it's worth that.

I appreciate that, Wes. Thank you.

Your trade could be worth a lot or not.

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In this week's newsletter,

it's a great article about keeping cool on the road.

It's heating up all over the place here in Texas.

Close to or over 100 degrees every single day.

It's just hot.

Yeah, but it's been a it's been an OK August.

It's been OK. I mean, it's it's obvious.

So you expect it to be hot.

It's still summer. It's still summer.

With that, if you're taking a road trip

or just generally driving around in this heat,

there's some good tips on how to keep cool on the road.

Like a safety check, of course, you check your tires for the pressure.

And then one one thing I found interesting,

a friend of mine who works for an airline carrier

recommended this to me.

Filling your gas tank early morning or late night.

Yeah, because of the as the temperatures rise,

a gas becomes denser.

So you're going to get more bang for the buck

if you fill in the morning or night.

You get more gas for the same money.

I like that. Yeah, it's true.

Check it out. It's in the newsletter.

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And let's go to Steve in Whittier, California.

Steve, welcome. How can I help you?

I, OK, this driver, I have a twenty twenty one

Duramax Chevy Silverado LTZ.

Yeah, and I'm going to order 20.

I'm going to order twenty six.

For some reason, the car won't smoke.

They say the monitor, one of the monitors won't run.

And then I know you don't.

How many miles you got on?

Sixty. Wow.

And the dealership wanted me to pay somebody to drive it

up to Big Bear, whether one hundred eight or five dollars an hour.

And then he said, maybe you have to go to a referee.

I don't think so.

I bought two cars from this place.

The back story was I had scratched on the side of my truck

and I took it over there and took them two weeks to finish it.

And they say the data in the emissions fell off.

Don't know that either.

But anyway, I've been driving it since they get this thing taken care of.

You got to drive a certain cycle, slow, fast, up, down.

Yeah, right. I still don't have a smogged.

So when's it coming up to be?

To be I've already paid the tag.

I already paid the money. OK.

Paid it in May.

This has been going on since May.

In May, their small guy was gone, so I just took it over next door.

Can you mention the dealer?

Is that something wrong with that?

No, I don't I don't care.

Salmon Chevrolet and orange dealer.

I just don't understand why they're trying to make me or this one person.

And so now I'm driving it around and make sure there's enough mileage on it.

I'm going to go to the outside and have someone else.

So yeah, I'm a little tired of that.

But on the 2026, is there any now?

They don't make long beds in LTV.

You have to go to a high country.

Yeah, that's right.

That's exactly right.

Yeah, I did know that.

Actually, I ran across this recently.

Somebody was pulling up a fifth wheel that wanted LTV with a long bed

and found out you couldn't get it.

Now, why a 26 instead of getting a 2025?

Because they're not making 2025s.

And the ones that they have, they're all short bed.

He has trucks there, but everybody wants a short bed.

Yeah, that's right.

That's why they want to pull a trailer.

That's why they're great builders.

Nobody wants them.

Yeah, nobody.

Yeah, but yeah, well, who knows what they're what they're doing,

but you can't pull a fifth wheel with a short bed.

You can, but you can get into problems.

Yeah, it could anyway.

It's going to whip.

Yes.

Yeah, it's it's a yeah.

So I was wondering if you knew anything about the 26 is that they're a problem.

Of course, I want to get a little more horsepower, a little more torque.

Yeah, any problems that they ever fixed?

Probably without body, you know, Steve,

I mean, you're asking me about a vehicle that's not even out yet.

So I can't they just ordered it.

I can't know. I understand.

You know, you I can't know what I don't what I don't know.

Right, right.

So that's been historically, it's been a great engine.

The Duramax has I I have nothing but praise.

In fact, there's no bad engines in the diesels.

Whether it's a Ford or a Joe Mutter's product or a Ram from Stalantis,

they've all been good.

But the Duramax has been it's been good.

I'm sure it'll be fine. Good luck.

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