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It's noon here in Vendorsen, New Jersey, and our nation's capital, Washington, D.C.,
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and this is Car Edge Live for Friday, March 6th, with your host, me, Ray here in Vendorsen,
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Well, sitting in front of his bike in D.C. How are things in Washington today, handsome?
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They're a little gray, but that's okay because it's Friday.
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Thanks everyone for tuning in and joining us for another episode of Car Edge Live.
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We've got an update, y'all.
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Dealers have 400,000 leftover new cars that they're not selling right now.
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We're going to peek into that data in just a moment.
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Do you know, are you aware of the fact that one of the most famous movies that Clint Eastwood
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made, the original working title was the good, bad, and the indifferent, but thankfully,
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they changed it to the good, the bad, and the ugly?
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That's just a joke.
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You talked about car dealers, the good, the bad, and the indifferent.
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My mind automatically went to the Clint Eastwood movie, the good, the bad, and the ugly.
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It's important what the title is because I don't think it would have been a popular
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film if it had been titled, the good, the bad, and the indifferent.
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Let's talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly, dad, the ugly.
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You go on CarEdge.com to the car search right now, and you toggle for new cars 2025 or newer.
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You've got 432,081 that are first sale nationwide.
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Dad, we know Ford, for example, has 28,000 left over F-150s.
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We know there are a lot of electric vehicles that are left over year over year.
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Talk to us about what the heck it means on March 6 of 2026 to have 432,081, 2025 or older
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new cars still for sale.
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What does that mean for the auto industry?
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What does that mean for car dealers out there that are sitting on these vehicles?
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Well, it means some sales managers will probably join the ranks of the unemployed.
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I mean, at some point, a dealer, principal, or owner is going to look at it and go,
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I don't need you to keep this inventory.
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Probably a monkey could have sold more units than you have.
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So what does it mean?
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It means that it means a couple of things.
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It means, a, that the incentives to move those units either from the manufacturer in combination
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with the motivation from the dealerships is not high enough to get the public that is afraid
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of committing to these type of vehicles because they're just so damn expensive.
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So it indicates to me that the public is a bit wary.
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Okay, so just to simplify that, it means that there's less demand is what you're saying.
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That's one of the indicators.
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I would think there is.
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Thank you for paraphrasing and making my gibberish into something people can understand.
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And then the other thing that it indicates to me is that from the highest levels
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within the dealership, the owner or the executive manager or the general manager,
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the message isn't strong enough to the managers that are working the sales desks about the importance
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of moving the inventory in a timely fashion to still be sitting on brand new 2024s and 2025s
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on March 6th means that you have completely shirked your responsibility as a manager.
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There's no real excuse for it unless in many cases it's left over EVs.
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But if it's F-150s, well, you should have been able to figure out a way to move those.
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I get why it might be harder to move those EVs, but there is no real good excuse at this particular
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point in time to have those vehicles.
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So just indicates to me that an owner has to say to the sales manager, I don't give a damn
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what the deal looks like, just get rid of it.
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It's not like a fine wine.
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It's not going to get better with age.
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Actually, it's going to end up costing us more with age because, well, the battery will go dead
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or there'll be flat spots on the tires or there'll be a rodent infestation in the wiring system,
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whatever it is, all those things cost money to correct.
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So I don't care what the deal looks like, just get rid of them.
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Yeah, let's do a little bit of our live experimentation here.
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We've got 29,565 prior model year electric vehicles for sale out there.
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Out of the 400,000, about was that 8% maybe, are EVs, just pure battery electric vehicles
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that just have insult that are just sitting there.
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And I'm so fascinated.
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Yeah, actually, this is so interesting.
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You can see MSRP versus the advertised price and obviously 348Ks on market.
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These things are sitting.
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They're advertising big discounts off of MSRP, but obviously not big enough.
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Oh, man, look at this one, that 2025 Volkswagen ID forward pops.
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47,271 MSRP, the dealer's advertising at $35,771.
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I know that dealership.
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I used to help manage the accurate dealership right across the service drive from that store.
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So yeah, it proves the point that apparently when it comes to electric vehicles,
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you can't price them cheaply enough to get people to finally say yes to the damn thing.
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Wait, look at these discounts on these Volkswagen's.
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So yeah, this is my dad used to run Acura North Scottsdale.
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He was the new car sales manager there for what, eight years, baby?
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More like 10 and a half.
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10 and a half years.
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Wow, it's a long time to have a job.
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Then you can see the Volkswagen dealership across the street.
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Yeah, all these ID4s, what are they offering?
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At least $10,000 off of MSRP.
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The IDBuzz, they're offering $12,500 off of MSRP, the Maserati.
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We didn't plan this, obviously, right?
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Y'all know us by now.
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Look at the MSRP on this Maserati Grey Collet, which is leaving.
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40 grand, isn't it?
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I can't do the math, but that looks like $40,000 off.
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Dealers can't sell 400,000 leftover new cars,
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and some of them are discounted $40,000.
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And it's not enough, and it's not enough, because the problem with that is it wasn't
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a $114,000 car, and it should never have been a $114,000 car, and it's a Maserati.
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It's not a Ferrari, and even it's 74 grand.
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It makes it kind of difficult to find somebody foolish enough to say,
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yeah, I just have to have that car.
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338 days on the market, Dad.
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Yeah, and here's the good news, Zach.
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There's only two in the market, and they're probably both at the same store,
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and they haven't been able to move them.
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They are both at the same store.
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We've also got some Kodas.
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Oh, wow, look at the discounts on these Mustang Machis.
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I don't think that's going to move the metal here.
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So, Dad, EVs are part of the equation, but let's take the EV filter off,
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or actually I'll come all the way down here.
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So we've got EV checked right now.
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Let's bring in Phebs.
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Let's just see what that goes to the mix.
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So we're up to 37,000, so not that many are plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.
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The majority, let's see here, get rid of EV, get rid of Pheb.
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Yeah, 343,000 are just gas vehicles, Dad.
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Gas and hybrid vehicles that just aren't selling.
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You've got Nissan Z, you've got a Nissan.
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Look at the discount on this Nissan Altima.
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This Nissan dealer, Dad, has been sitting on an Altima, a $31,000 Altima.
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Deals can't sell 400,000 left over cars.
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Some of them have $40,000 discounts, which again, on $114,000 vehicles,
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still a huge discount.
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That's 30% off of NSRP, or you've got here, what is $5,000 off of $31,000, Dad?
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That's about 15% discount.
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That's what, one sixth?
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Yeah, so that's almost 15, yeah, it's about 15%.
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You've got a 15% discount off of MSRP on a $31,000 Nissan,
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and it's still not selling 241 days on March.
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This is just a guess.
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I don't know this for a fact.
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I am familiar with that store, and this is just a guess that you probably can actually buy it
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for $26,000 if you were to go in, based on this ad, that there are any number
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of, let's see, of your installed accessories, including window tint, I'm certain,
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I'm just guessing it's probably part of the bait and switch that is done at that particular dealership
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based on not being able to get someone interested in that at $5,000 off,
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because at $5,000 off, if somebody came in, you'd think you'd want to sell it.
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Now, it's interesting.
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Unfortunately, I just took a peek over on the CarEdge dealer reviews, dealer ratings.
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We don't have pinnacle Nissan in there, so our AI agent hasn't shopped them, but
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take a peek at their website.
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Let's go all the way down to the bottom, maybe on the fine print.
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Purchase, price, design, include tax, title, license, $599 dock fee, price includes the listed
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rebates and incentives, so yeah, who knows?
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Obviously, we could deploy the AI agent and check, but regardless, Dad, this is
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just an acute demonstration on how damned the current state of the auto industry is.
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It was back in January, Dad, that we had $800,000 left over new cars, so we sold down half in two
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months, but you tell me, Dad, the remaining unsold new car inventory, it's not like it's
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going to age like fine wine, it's not going to be worth more in April or in May.
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Like each of these cars, the longer it sits, the more they're just going to have to discount.
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These become, if I may, Dad, these become like for deal hunters, deal hunters.
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These are the ones where you go on CarEdge, you find the ones been sitting for the longest amount
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of time, and these are the ones the dealers are most desperate to get rid of.
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So, okay, see, my mind goes in so many different directions.
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At the start of the show, it went to a Clint Eastwood movie, and now we're going
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to go to the movie Tornado, or Storm Chasers.
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And instead of storm chasers, for deal chasers out there, for people driving around in fortified
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vehicles looking for great deals, there are pockets in the country where you can find
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leftover inventory that you should be able to snag at huge savings.
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Now, the problem might be, is, well, it's still a Nissan Altima, or whatever, but
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the point is, there should be a segment of society that deal chasers that are out there
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testing my theory that there aren't deals to be had, because they certainly should be.
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Let's use our tools, let's do this really quickly here.
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So, again, we're currently toggled, new cars from 2022 to 2025, all right?
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So, leftover new cars, we're gas powertrain, which we can get rid of that.
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We're just interested in, we're deal hunters, all right?
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So, 432, deal chasers, there's 432,000.
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What else are you doing in here?
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You may be sorting this by days on market oldest, or coming over here to days on market,
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and why don't we say max it out at, I don't know, they've had it for a minimum,
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how about this, a minimum of 365 days?
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Let's see that then.
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How many, before it even shows up on the screen, what's your guess?
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How many new cars, leftover new cars, do you think have been sitting on dealer lots for
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That's what this is doing, this days on market filter.
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I'm going to go 200,000.
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Do we have a, can you toggle for a road and infestation and things like that?
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Yeah, look at that, we're actually only at 43,000.
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So, 10% of those leftovers, so a lot of them obviously came out towards the end of last year,
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Again, we're deal chasers right now, pops.
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This is what I'm doing, I'm doing year, no later than 2025, and days on market,
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no younger than 365 days, and then I'm coming and doing my normal car search.
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Oh my God, look at this X-T6 pops.
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Look at this Cadillac X-T6, 374 days on the market.
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MSRP, 20,000 miles on it.
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Sure, they've put miles on it, but $50,889, they're advertising it for 36.
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This is dead, again, I just want to reiterate, if you are a deal chaser, if you're a deal hunter,
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this is the way to use market intelligence, and everything we've shown here is free.
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You don't have to have Car Edge Pro or anything, just use the car search, use these filters.
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Here's how to hone in on some vehicles, the leftover 400,000 that dealers are most desperate
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Yeah, like go back up for one second, scroll, stop right there.
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See, there's that Mercedes Benz of North Scottsdale.
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They are so interested in moving that sprinter, they're not even offering any discount because
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they figure who's not going to run in there for $121,000 Sprinter, and well, apparently,
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there's about 5 million people in the Phoenix metro area that ain't sprinting for that Sprinter.
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Look at this Ford Edge, Dad.
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2024 Ford Edge, first sale at AutoNation Ford of Scottsdale.
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They put 1,300 miles on it.
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They're offering $9,000 off MSRP.
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Give them a call, tell them they're paying for it.
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Okay, I'll buy it for $27,000.
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See, I mean, what's the worst thing that happens?
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Well, what would be interesting would be to see what a 2024 Ford Edge SE 4-wheel drive
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should be selling for as a pre-owned car, not as a new car, but as a pre-owned car.
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And my guess, it's probably considerably less than that.
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What was the trim on that, Dad? SE?
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SE all-wheel drive.
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SE, all right, give me a second.
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We said year was what, 2024?
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Edge has been discontinued.
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It's been discontinued.
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Yeah, I mean, yeah, these have miles on them.
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These have miles on them, so we'll do mileage.
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We'll cap the mileage out at what, $5,000?
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See if there are any that have low mileage.
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We've got 52 of them, and they're selling for...
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You want them playing feel a little noise.
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Never going to sell.
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But this, this thing, I absolutely never sell.
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But this is how to leverage this moment in time, which again,
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nationwide at this very moment, March 6th, 2026, there are 432,000 unsold new cars
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from the prior model years.
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In January, that number was 800,000, so dealers are selling this inventory down.
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We know the manufacturers are pushing the dealers to sell this inventory down.
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Ford, for example, is currently offering 0% financing.
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What was it, up to 60 months or 72 months?
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72 months plus $1,000 truck month cash and 90 days to the first payment.
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So in reality, I think 60 months.
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So in reality, it was a 63 month note.
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If that doesn't move some of the metal, I don't know what would.
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So that demonstrates from the OEM perspective.
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Okay, we're feeling the pressure to move on from this inventory.
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The dealer discounts that we're seeing say, okay, we're feeling the pressure to move on
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from this inventory.
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And the thing that everyone in our community, anyone who watches this show,
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needs to understand is that all of these leftover vehicles do not become more valuable tomorrow.
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So if you've been on the sidelines, if you are a deal hunter, a deal searcher, a deal chaser.
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I mean, I'm not trying to say here and say wait till April 6th,
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but when we come on the show on April 6th and it's now 310,000 instead of 400,
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those continue to be the vehicles that just have so much, I don't know,
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desperation building for the dealers involved.
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And for consumers, those are also the vehicles that you really need to do an inspection on.
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And what do I mean by that?
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You need to drive it, not just drive it around the block.
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You need to drive it on the highway.
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You need to drive it at a higher speed.
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You need to make sure there are no flat spots in the tires.
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Because if they've been sitting around for a year, there's a rather strong likelihood
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that the tires are flat spotted and you'll need to get the dealer to replace those tires.
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You need to make sure that the battery is up the snuff,
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so that you need to check the charge on the battery.
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And if it's a little low, insist that they replace the battery, not just trickle charge it.
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You need to make sure that the rotors aren't warped from sitting outside in the weather.
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So there's all, I mean, and then you need to look under the hood,
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make sure there's nothing nesting in there.
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Because trust me, rodents look at aged inventory and they think to themselves,
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oh my goodness, a new neighborhood to move into, okay?
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And they and their family and their friends find housing inside and under the hood of many of these
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vehicles. You know, the soy-based wire covers, they make a delightful meal for rodents.
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They love that stuff.
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So these are some of the nuances of it being in the market for a leftover new vehicle.
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Great opportunity for your deal hunters out there, for your dealers,
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churchers out there, you deal scavengers out there.
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But there's a slightly different buying playbook.
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To be clear here, even on these vehicles, you ask for the OTD price,
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you ask for the OTD price, so that aspect hasn't changed.
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But the level of scrutiny you put the vehicle under before you take it home, that increases.
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Not to the same level of necessarily needing a pre-purchase inspection on a used car.
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But close, especially for some of these that have been sitting 700 days.
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But again, just to reiterate, if you're in the market to buy a car now
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and you are looking for the best possible deal, everything we showed here is 100% free.
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Go to caredge.com, click on shop new.
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Set the year filter, so make sure your condition is set to new.
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Then set the year filter down here to be 2025 or older.
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There we go, 2025 or older.
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And then under days on market, set the youngest car that you're interested in.
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What a crazy way to say it, 365 days.
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That means it's been sitting on a dealer's lot for at least a year.
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Then do your car search, then put in here Ford Edge, then put in here Mazda, whatever.
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That's how I would encourage you to do your car search.
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And then obviously, when you reach out to dealers, it's the same playbook as always.
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You're asking for the out-the-door price, you're using your market data,
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but you definitely know that these leftover vehicles are the ones where they're feeling
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it the most and they definitely want to sell them.
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There is no incentive that, keep me honest here, is there any incentive for the dealer
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to keep holding on to these 400,000 vehicles for another day, another week, another month?
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Like is there maybe some scenario we're not thinking of where it's pragmatic and practical
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for them to want to keep holding on to aged inventory?
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The answer can just be no.
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I'm just making sure we're covering all of our days.
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I mean, what could be the upside?
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You know, I mean, I worked for a gentleman who was convinced that at a certain point,
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if he held onto a vehicle long enough, whether it be a new car or a used car,
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it would be the only one left in America that was available and that, well, he could dictate the price.
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Now, he didn't necessarily factor in what it cost him to have that damn thing sit there for
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700, 800, 900 days, you know, until he had the only one left in America.
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But taking that out of the equation, what's the benefit?
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These vehicles are made to run.
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You're supposed to use them.
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They're not supposed to sit idle for months and months and months at a time and not get started,
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I mean, just to have the oil run through the engine occasionally instead of,
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I don't know, every six months or so, I cannot think of an upside.
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I can only think of the downside costs involved.
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And I have been through it, where I have had to spend on a mini.
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You are not getting a battery for a mini installed inexpensively.
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So this is three and a half, four hundred dollars, you need tires.
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Okay, there's another thousand dollars or more because they're run flat tires.
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Wires that are been eaten and chewed on, it gets expensive.
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You've watched this movie before.
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This is some of the joys of being able to do this show with you.
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It's not me making up BS.
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It's you sharing your 40 years of experience.
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I think I might have directed this movie.
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I think I might have been an extra in this movie.
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I think I might have questioned, why are we doing this in the movie?
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They had said you were the Clint Eastwood of those films.
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Dad, can we turn our attention here to the chat?
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From our dear friend, ASJ.
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Thank you for the kind contribution.
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Thanks for the CX-5 help.
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Also, I'm so car edgy now.
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I offered the dealerships in etching and fabric protection on my trade-in.
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Did you tell them there was an upcharge for that?
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Congratulations on the new ride, ASJ.
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Glad we were able to help from our friend, Rich.
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So these are vehicles that were based on hot wheel models.
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And apparently, for somebody that spent 43 years in retail automotive,
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I never had hot wheels.
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I was the hot wheels growing up.
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Dad, where were you?
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I think what I had, my father was a dentist.
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I think I had some extracted teeth hanging around.
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But I didn't have hot wheels.
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I had hot wheels all around the house growing up.
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Look, I appreciate you sharing all the fun cars we learned so much from you.
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Dad, over on LinkedIn, we now get live on LinkedIn, so this is cool.
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But the bigger question is, why aren't they being purchased?
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So much of this obviously has to do with price point and making vehicles
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that people aren't interested in.
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Like, that's the name of the game.
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Well, you know, and I don't want to sound like Debbie Danner, but I usually do.
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I mean, maybe part of the problem is that even when these vehicles are advertised
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with hefty discounts, and then a person who says, okay, that sounds good enough
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for me to want to go in and buy it.
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And then when they go in to buy it, there's all these mandatory extras
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that the dealer is insisting upon.
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Maybe that, maybe the experience of actually trying to purchase the damn vehicle
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at one of those lower price points, is what turns the customer off.
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Maybe it's just the way some of the dealerships approach
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how they treat their paying customers.
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I think that could be part of it.
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Not only could that be part of it, Dad.
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I think it's obviously, to your point, the combination.
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It's a big, it's a mixture of product price positioning issues,
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and then it's the experience of buying the car.
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And yeah, and you know what?
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It's not, you know, it's not, it's not the lack of extended loan terms.
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Okay, so it's our, I think it'll take but approve.
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It's not that, yeah.
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It's not that people can't get approved for these things.
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It's that the 400,000 lingering vehicles that remain unsold from last year,
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those are vehicles that people obviously just don't want.
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Look at that Maserati that was almost 40% off.
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It just says everything to why it's the wrong product.
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That's what it is, right?
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It's the wrong product, and it's the wrong price, and it's the wrong positioning.
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Maserati has a very niche audience.
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It's not like that niche audience is waking up and saying,
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I want to spend that level of money on an EV, on an EV SUV.
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So it's a lot of product issue, a lot of product issue, I think.
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And, you know, Maserati just doesn't have the same
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panache as, say, a Ferrari or a Lamborghini.
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Okay, it doesn't, and, you know, let's not forget the folks I worked for,
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we had a Maserati store.
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Okay, they were convinced that we were going to sell 20, 25 Maseratis a month,
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not 20 or 25 in a year.
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So oftentimes, it is, the expectations are so much greater than the reality.
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You know, people, I think there are dealers out there that just honestly believe that there's
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an extraordinarily large number of people who are desperate to get their hands on some of these
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vehicles, and they're not.
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I mean, yeah, Maserati sounds like a wonderful thing,
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so you get one and you drive one, and then you realize, oh my god, what a mistake this is.
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Not only is it a mistake, it's an overpriced mistake.
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So there's any number of factors, but yeah, you know, I don't know that you can price that
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Maserati low enough to get somebody, unless you hold onto it for 30 years and you take
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it to Barrett Jackson, and, you know, there's some more on there that says, well, you know,
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I've always wanted a 20, 25 with no miles.
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That is not obviously just Maserati, look at what Jeep's having to do with some of those
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vehicles that they're significantly discounting, obviously.
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And then also, it doesn't help when some of these manufacturers have already dropped the MSRP
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of the new model in your vehicle.
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So what does that do when you drop the MSRP of the 26s?
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What does that do for the 25?
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So it definitely doesn't help with the errors.
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No, absolutely not.
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Yeah, I mean, and people are going, okay, so why should I buy this leftover 2025
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when they comparably equip 2026 that I don't want either is even less money.
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So, yeah, it's, you know, I did this for a long time.
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There's that old saying, there's an ass for every seat.
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But I can assure you that's only a saying.
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As you can see, for some of these vehicles, there is no ass, but there's plenty of seat.
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And maybe eventually an ass will show up for it.
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But how long do you have to wait?
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Is it three and a half years?
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I mean, you know, I remember we had a used, I think it was an Acura Vigor six speed.
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Vigors weren't a popular Acura to begin with.
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And in a six speed manual, they were even less.
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And we had one, a pre-owned one that we sat on for like ever.
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And then one day I'm checking with the used car manager.
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He says, you'll never guess what I bought at the auction yesterday.
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I said, what's that?
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He said, I got us another vigor six speed.
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I said, it took you like 300 days to sell the first one.
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What do you think the odds are that both people in America
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who would want a six speed vigor live here?
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You think, I mean, come on, use your head at a certain point.
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That's another week of Car Edge Live in the books.
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I'm excited to share, Dad.
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I will have a new background come Monday.
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I've got a new setup and a different part of my apartment.
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So I can't wait for that.
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So please tune in on Monday.
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I need some feedback for the new setup.
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Gone will be the bike behind me instead.
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We'll have something different.
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And Dad, I don't know about you, but it's supposed to be over 80 degrees here
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in Washington, D.C. this weekend.
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I'm going to be running around without my shirt on.
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It's going to be fantastic.
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Well, good for you and the female population of the D.C. area.
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I'm not going to be running around without my shirt on because I think the high here,
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when it's going to be in the 80s there, is 51.
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The Jersey Shore is a lot cooler after you have a really cold winter
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because those ocean breezes are just bringing in cold, cold air.
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I also will mention, Dad, I signed up for a half Iron Man.
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So not only, did I tell you this?
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I didn't tell you this, did I?
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So I'm running the D.C. Half Marathon in like two weeks,
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which I'm really hyped without.
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20 to 21st, I think, should.
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And I'm sharing this with our community as like pure accountability
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because I really don't want to start training on the bike or something, but I need to.
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So pure accountability here, thank you all.
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D.C. Half in three weeks, two weeks, three weeks, whatever.
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Eugene, Eugene, Oregon Marathon, April 26th, if I'm not mistaken.
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And then Eagle Man, which is a Iron Man 70.3 on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
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It'll be my third time competing in that race.
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And my coworker, Adam, is doing it.
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Last time Adam and I did a half Iron Man together, I beat him by about 15 minutes.
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I set a personal belt and I beat him.
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I was at Jones Beach in New York.
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Adam is training for Lake Placid, which is a full Iron Man.
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I think you might beat me this year, Dad.
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So I really need to train because I cannot lose to Adam.
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So you're going to be swimming in the Chop Tank River again?
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Chop Tank River, 56 mile bike ride through the beautiful Eastern Shore and then
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Yeah, but that's flat.
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No, the course is flat.
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The course is very flat.
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But anyway, just sharing that for some pure accountability.
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Got to get my, what did you say?
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There's a, there's a butt for every seat.
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My butt needs to get back on the saddle.
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It was the last time you rode that bike.
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It's been a minute, man.
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Well, you know, I've heard it's supposed to go up to 80 orders.
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Perhaps it would be a good weekend to take it out, take it off the wall.
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We're back Monday, y'all.
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Hopefully I'll have ridden my bike check-in with me then.
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We appreciate everyone tuning in and being a part of our community.
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And we'll see you back here on Monday.
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