New car incentives are discounts or special offers that car manufacturers give to help sell more cars. They might lower the price or offer better financing options to attract buyers.
Dealer inventory is the number of cars that a dealership has on hand to sell. If they have too many cars, they might offer discounts to sell them faster.
MSRP is the price that car makers suggest dealerships charge for a new car. It's like a starting point for how much you might pay, but the actual price can be higher or lower depending on various factors.
The average car price is how much most people are paying for a new car. It can change based on how many cars are sold and how much they cost at that time.
The average car payment is what most people pay each month when they buy a car on credit. It can be different for everyone depending on how much they borrow and the car's price.
The Kia Soul is a small car that looks a bit like a box, which gives it a lot of room inside. It's popular because it's easy to drive, has a lot of space for passengers and cargo, and is usually not too expensive.
The Toyota Corolla Cross is a small SUV that offers more space and a higher driving position than regular cars. It's designed to be practical and efficient, making it a popular choice for many drivers.
The Dodge Ram 1500 is a big truck that can be used for many purposes, like hauling things or driving around town. It's known for being strong and reliable.
Diesel is a type of fuel used in some trucks that helps them pull heavy loads better than regular gasoline. Trucks with diesel engines are often stronger for towing.
The 'rear end' is the part of a car that helps it move by connecting the engine's power to the back wheels. It's important for how well a car can tow things.
A gooseneck trailer is a special kind of trailer that attaches to a truck in the bed, making it easier to tow heavy things like horses or equipment. It's more stable than regular trailers that connect to the back bumper.
The Hemi 2500 is a type of truck that has a powerful engine, which helps it tow heavy things like trailers. It's designed for people who need to move big loads.
Four wheel drive means that all four wheels of a car can get power from the engine at the same time. This helps the car grip the road better, especially in bad weather or rough terrain.
The 6.4 Hemi is a type of powerful engine made by Chrysler. It's often used in trucks and performance cars, and it's known for being strong and efficient.
The rear axle ratio is a number that tells you how many times the driveshaft turns for each turn of the wheels. A higher number means the engine works harder, which can use more gas and put more stress on the engine.
RPM means how many times the engine turns around in one minute. If the number is high, it means the engine is working really hard, which can use more gas and wear it out faster.
The Ford Edge is a type of SUV that is larger than a car but smaller than a full-size SUV. It has a lot of space for passengers and cargo, making it a popular choice for families.
The Toyota Camry is a well-known car that many people trust for daily driving. The 2019 version is designed to be comfortable and efficient, making it a good choice for families or commuters.
A four-cylinder engine is a type of car engine that has four parts called cylinders. These engines are usually smaller and help cars use less fuel while still providing enough power to drive.
A transmission flush is like changing the oil in your car, but for the part that helps your car change gears. It gets rid of old, dirty fluid and replaces it with fresh fluid to keep everything running smoothly.
Subaru is a car brand from Japan that makes tough cars, especially good for driving in bad weather. They are usually cheaper to maintain than some other brands like Volvo.
EyeSight is a safety feature in Subaru cars that helps drivers by watching the road and warning them about potential dangers. It can even help stop the car if it thinks there's going to be an accident.
The Chevrolet Corvette is a fast and stylish sports car that many people dream of owning. It's known for being powerful and fun to drive, making it a symbol of American car culture.
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There you go.
Let's talk to.
Oh, I would.
Oh, no.
How would you say S.A.U.X.
Saw.
Saw.
I'm going to guess.
In the Woodlands, in the Houston area.
Good. Hi there.
Hello. Yeah. Can you hear me?
Yes, sir.
OK. Yeah.
It's actually saw like the show Better Call Saul.
Oh, Saul.
The X must have been in hell.
My my my call screeners dyslexic times.
So, Saul, how are you doing, pal?
What could I do for you?
I'm doing great.
Just a question.
I have a twenty nineteen Toyota Camry.
It's the two five liter, you know, the four cylinder.
Yeah.
It it hit just recently, you know, seven years old technically
and it just hit about forty five thousand miles, you know, three hundred.
So it has been fine.
My only and I do all the maintenance at Toyota.
These are chips, the old changes.
But my question is about the transmission fluid.
And it's going to come up to seven years.
It still has the original fluid.
It hasn't hit sixty thousand, which they say to change it.
Should I change it?
You know, I just go ahead and change it, even though it's at forty five
just because it's been pretty much seven years or and should it be a flush or a change?
You know, I'd wait till you get to sixty thousand miles.
It just doesn't seem like time, unlike motor oil, transmission fluid
doesn't wear due to time.
Pretty much you can count on the miles.
Now, I was thinking, you know, if you're at forty five and you're going to do it anyway,
but that's a fairly expensive
piece of maintenance.
And if you're ever going to do a flush, this is the time to do it.
When you're at around that sixty thousand mile mark, because after that,
I don't recommend it at all.
I don't ever recommend flushes past sixty thousand miles.
And the reason is simple.
They're high pressure and my opinion, the risk of of damaging seals and gaskets,
especially on a vehicle that seven, eight, nine years old,
to me is much greater than the reward of what a flush will do.
I like flushes, but just at sixty thousand or under.
So my advice to you would be not to change the fluid now.
But at sixty or close to it, do a flush, change the fluid.
And then from that point on, only do a change.
OK, all right. OK.
That's definitely better news to that.
It's more on the mallet and not like. Yes. Yes.
OK, yeah. OK, that's perfect.
Transmission fluid is very different than than oil is.
So I think I think you'd be just fine doing it at sixty thousand.
And then another sixty thousand if you have the car that long.
OK, after after the first sixty thousand is up, I do the flush.
And then the next sixty thousand, that should be the change.
Just a change. Yeah.
Yes, the change.
And this goes for like any vehicle, right?
Because my mom, my mom has a rap for twenty one rap for my dad has a twenty
twenty one fifty.
And so when they hit sixty, do a flush as well.
And then just after that, after that, just do a change.
Yep. OK, that's what I do.
Now, you can talk to five different people and you'll get five different answers.
But that's that's what I do with my own cars.
So and when I when I own dealerships, my people hated it because some people
would come in at seventy five, eighty thousand miles and say, I'd like to get
my transmission flushed, flushed, and I wouldn't let them do it.
And and they're like, hey, we're missing money here.
Well, you know what?
That's just life. That's the way it goes.
We're going to do it right or we're not going to do it at all.
And that's the way I ran my dealership.
So there you go.
So I appreciate it so much.
You take care of yourself and we'll go to Dwight.
And he's in the Houston area. Dwight, what can I do for you?
Well, Gary, good good morning to you.
Got a quick question.
I am a eight year owner of a Subaru out back
and have been absolutely pleased with it.
Sure. And it's got about seventy thousand miles.
And I know that we may be looking at trading it in soon.
We really enjoyed the carpet and we may go back out back at the same level.
But I'm curious as to the any advantage
could be found in the Volvo ninety or sixty over this outback.
And I'm really curious about the difference in those two costs.
Seems like to me it's at least fifteen thousand dollar difference.
It's probably more than that, to be honest with you,
because the Volvo's Volvo's have taken a hard hit with the tariffs.
And so they've we've seen some real
pretty significant price jumps in the Volvo and I like the Volvo's.
I will tell you this, you'll save a lot of money up front with the Subaru
and you'll save a lot of money down the road
because, in my opinion,
Volvo's are kind of quirky cars and at about sixty thousand miles,
you're going to end up spending money on them and they're not cheap to work on.
You pretty much got to use a dealership.
So, you know, for a lot of different reasons,
if if you were if you were one of those people who
told me that that you were, you know, a safety freak,
you're worried to death about getting hurt in a car,
you know, you talk about Volvo and safety and they've earned
that reputation as being super safe.
But I got to tell you something, I don't think there's anything any better
than a Subaru when it comes to safety with their eyesight system.
So if I were you, I would stick with the Subaru, if it were me making the decision,
save the money, save the trouble down the road.
I've got three great Subaru dealers at my website in the Houston area.
Use them, they'll save you money and you're good people.
Before you buy or lease your next car, truck or SUV,
call Jerry Rimmelts at the CarPro Show.
1-800-926-7777.
One of the most clicked things in the newsletter that came out yesterday,
the absolutely free newsletter, by the way,
the Jerry puts together every single week is the question,
how long should you keep your car?
And if you're not leasing, of course, that's a pretty good question.
Ask yourself, there's a lot of things that you need to go and look at a
consider that play into your decision.
But I guess the line that I like the best about this entire article is
it's about balancing cost, reliability, safety and peace of mind.
When the balance is shifted, it's okay to let go.
Yeah, you can keep a car too long.
And I see people do that and to a fault, really.
Yeah, because you get, you get an older car,
average car on the road days, 12 years old.
Yeah, and it's still got some value until you have that catastrophic
failure, engine or transmission, serious problem.
Then you've got a boat anchor.
It's not worth nothing.
Yeah, and if you've got payments that, you know, there's much money
as you're putting in the car, it's as much as you're paying on a new payment.
It's probably time to think about getting rid of it
and getting a brand new car and not having that headache anymore.
Yeah, and, you know, getting in something safer with today's safety technology.
Yeah, absolutely.
That's a big deal.
The phone number is 800-926-7777.
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We welcome Mark from Beaverton, Oregon.
Mark, welcome.
How could I help you, sir?
Good morning, Gary.
Good morning, Todd.
Thank you so much for your show and being such a great resource.
Thank you, buddy.
I appreciate that.
So we I feel like we've been very lucky in buying some cars, used cars
for my wife and I and our older kids, and we're at that time again.
I got to my son is turning 16.
He's six, five, almost six, six, and it's time to give him a car here in February.
Yeah. So we've had good luck with Toyota, Beaverton Toyota,
Russ Humberson up here, you know, one on Craigslist.
We got lucky.
So I just saw Amazon Autos is just recently gotten into.
They want to be the kind of a premiere hub.
And I just want to what you think of that.
I've seen here, for example, used 20, 25 Chevrolet
tracks, four wheel drive LT.
It's got, you know, 24,000 miles.
It's $18,000.
So, you know, it's the challenges finding a used car that's a little miles.
Yeah.
And it's at Hertz of Portland.
OK, so it's a it's a Hertz rent a car.
That's correct. OK.
It seems like Amazon has got a few partnerships, one being her
that they work with.
Yeah, I know, Mark, they're they're working with the Hyundai dealers.
They're working with some four dealers on certified cars.
Look, Amazon has nothing to do
with anything other than they are being a lead provider.
You still got you.
You still have to go to the dealership to take delivery.
Amazon has no vetting process whatsoever.
They'll take any dealer's money.
And I love Amazon.
They come to my house every stinking day.
You've seen here.
And more than once, more than once normally.
But when it comes to cars, it's just like Costco.
They're charging the dealer.
The dealer is going to get their money from them.
And they're going to add that money onto the price of the car.
Now, I'm OK with all that.
As long as everybody knows the deal that they're getting paid to do it.
It and I have people say to me,
do you make money if I buy a car from one of your dealers?
No, I don't make a penny.
And it will always be that way because I can't.
I can't in good faith recommend a dealer if they're paying me.
And and that's the bottom line.
Be careful with former Hertz cars.
Get it checked out by an independent service.
You got to be careful because they do a lot of their own body repairs
and they don't report to the to the car faxes and the auto checks.
So be careful.
If you're not up to the latest incentives when you buy a car,
you're just throwing money away.
Call the CarPro Show at 1-800-926-7777.
OK, happy listener time of the CarPro Show, folks that take Jerry's advice
on how to get a brand new car.
I have these great stories to tell.
James was looking for a brand new 2025 Subaru Forester
and was ready to go to Subaru Orange Coast to get that going.
Flew in from Northern California to Southern California to buy this.
Yes. And apparently had some email confusion with them.
And Buddy did recount your December podcast rationale explaining why
you need to be patient with general sales managers during the end of the year
and end of December.
So he called them back instead of doing the email thing and was able
to go and get the price negotiated before he made the trip.
They flew in somebody from the dealership, picked them up at the airport
and on the drive over was going over all the stuff that he recorded
so we can go back and he can refer to it.
Says that he's watched it three times since, had a great experience.
Thanks for your helpful and fun way to buy a car.
Well, I, you know, I tried to tell everybody that.
They're busy at these dealerships, especially at the end of December.
Yeah. And, you know, if you're one of those people who want a lot of attention
and you want to take your time and you want to drive three or four different cars.
Man, January is the time that is your time of year.
So, you know, look, I'm an email guy.
You know that. Oh, I do. I do.
I hate talking on the phone, right?
But the truth is in a dealership, emails are last.
The people live in the showroom take priority.
The people on the phone take second priority and you get to the emails
after all the people who are on the phone and in person, you're done with that.
That's the last thing you do.
So sometimes you just got to make you got to do it the old fashioned way.
I've got a line open if you want to grab it and we'll get you an hour to eight
hundred nine to six seventy seven seventy seven.
The best thing you can do before you get a car for your teenager
is to talk to Jerry Reynolds, the car driver, call one eight hundred nine to six seventy seven seventy seven.
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About this episode
Financial savvy is key in today's automotive market, especially with new incentives rolling out for 2025 models. Jerry Reynolds and co-host Todd Chambliss discuss the current state of car buying, including the importance of understanding dealership incentives and the impact of tariffs on vehicle prices. They take listener calls, offering personalized advice on topics like choosing the right truck for towing and the pros and cons of electric vehicles. The episode is filled with practical insights and real-life stories from callers navigating their car buying journeys.
