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Dad, go ahead and before we turn to our number one story.
05:10
No, no, no, I was just, you know, I was.
05:13
Yeah, it's almost six years, damn it.
05:17
Let's start here, Dad Honda sending a wake up call to the auto industry.
05:21
And we're also going to tie in with the broader recall
05:24
McGeddon, that is the year 2025.
05:26
And it's a is probing Honda for more than 1.4 million vehicles over engine failures.
05:33
Dad, what the heck is going on here at Honda?
05:37
But as a 74 year old man, I hate hearing the word probe.
05:41
I just I need to say that.
05:44
And when you use it as probing, that's even scarier.
05:48
There's like a probe going on right now for 1.4 million vehicles.
05:53
Which which, by the way, is a lot of vehicles that could have connecting rod
05:58
issues that, well, if if the issues come to fruition, I could just destroy
06:03
the engine completely.
06:05
I would say that's that's a real issue for for Honda, because,
06:13
you know, Honda, much like Toyota is known for their reliability
06:17
and realistically, the the strength of Honda has always been in engines
06:25
and in suspensions from Honda racing.
06:28
And this doesn't, in my opinion, this doesn't bode well for our dear friends at Honda.
06:36
It definitely doesn't, Dad.
06:38
And this is this comes on the heels of I think it was last year, Pops.
06:41
Yeah, in 2024, there were 1.4 million other Honda vehicles
06:45
that also had ultimately resulted in almost a quarter of a million of them
06:51
being recalled the year prior.
06:53
So there's all sorts of activity here with these brands that are typically
06:56
respected as like being, I don't know, kind of bulletproof, having their issues.
07:00
These vehicles that are in question right now, just so everyone knows,
07:03
twenty eighteen to twenty twenty model year Acura TLX is twenty sixteen
07:07
to twenty twenty Acura MDX is twenty sixteen to twenty twenty Honda pilots
07:11
twenty eighteen to twenty twenty Honda Odyssey's and twenty seventeen
07:14
to twenty nineteen Honda Ridgelines.
07:16
These are popular vehicles.
07:17
These are not, you know, one ops.
07:20
The the only one of the group that wasn't particularly popular is the TLX,
07:25
which is why the TLX is being discontinued.
07:28
But yeah, the the MDX is Acura's best seller.
07:34
The pilot is a big seller for for Honda, shows the Odyssey
07:38
and shows the Ridgeline.
07:39
So, you know, obviously, this is this is relating to slightly older
07:46
vehicles, the two thousand sixteen to two thousand twenty model years
07:51
and in many cases and I guess the hope would be that either they've
07:58
done a much better job with their engines since twenty twenty or we can
08:03
await a NHTSA probe for for Honda again in the future for for the
08:10
engines on the cars built from twenty twenty one on.
08:14
I think that's like a little bit of the question for me,
08:16
as we've seen questionable new vehicle reliability.
08:20
And this is obviously from a time period before the questionable new
08:23
vehicle reliability really post chip shortage and post pandemic is when
08:27
we think of vehicles not being produced as well, which leads me over here,
08:31
dad, I'm going to share it on the screen, the latest and greatest
08:34
NHTSA recalls by manufacturer Ford is up to an astounding one hundred
08:39
and four recalls so far this year.
08:42
I mean, Honda's on here as well.
08:46
Yeah, that for a second, folks, the new vehicle
08:49
reliability is new vehicle for ability, something we talk a lot about
08:52
and new vehicle reliability is another thing that we talk about.
08:55
Ford with a hundred and four recalls so far this year, Honda with
08:59
14, but likely potentially is another one coming on the other side of this probe.
09:03
Dad, a hundred and four recalls.
09:04
What do you make of that?
09:07
Well, the the prior to this, the record for the number of recalls
09:14
in a given year was held by GM and it was 72.
09:21
We are I'm not good at math, but at least 32 recalls ahead of that.
09:27
And we ain't even in September yet.
09:29
OK, so we're at 104 recalls in less than three quarters of the year.
09:36
This this is crazy.
09:38
These are these are staggering numbers.
09:42
And I know that Ford will say, well, you know, we realize
09:48
that there's some issues and we're being proactive.
09:51
And that's why there's so many.
09:52
And, you know, because we want to take care of our customers.
09:57
That's great. That's great.
09:58
It's all crap. It's all BS. It's all corporate speak.
10:01
OK, you build vehicles that fail way too often and way more often than they should.
10:10
And you are forced as a manufacturer to bring them back and repair them
10:18
so that you're just not absolutely ripping your customers off.
10:23
It is this speaks volumes to the problem that Ford has had
10:29
for the for the longest time when it comes to quality control
10:33
and the quality of the vehicles that they build.
10:36
And, you know, I I I don't know how many vehicles
10:43
those 104 recalls cover.
10:46
But my guess it's more than the 1.4 million engines
10:50
that Honda is getting probed about.
10:54
Let's take a peek, dad. Let's take a peek.
10:55
I mean, this is what's kind of nice about what NHTSA provides here.
10:58
We can search by manufacturers who will choose Ford Motor Company.
11:02
All right. So now we've got all 104 and let's look here.
11:05
Let's go down below so we can we can sort this by when the report was received.
11:10
So now here are all the August ones.
11:12
I mean, 21,000 vehicles on a recent one.
11:14
This is for what does that say headlights?
11:16
Headlights may fail.
11:18
Parking lights impacting another 18,000 vehicles, 102 vehicles.
11:22
There's a what is this window?
11:25
Man, they don't make it easy here.
11:26
I'd have to actually click into the recall window automatic
11:29
reversal system malfunction. Another one for parking lights.
11:32
We've got a recall of one vehicle for a blank instrument panel.
11:38
You think somebody might have caught that at the
11:40
at the dealership when they were doing the pre-delivery inspection?
11:45
Possibly. Here was another one.
11:48
This is for the powertrain, the rear axle hub.
11:52
Let's go to this particular recall.
11:53
Let me jump on this really quickly.
11:55
Yeah, this is rear axle hub may break.
12:00
What is this impacting 2023 to 2025 Ford F-150s?
12:04
And it was 103,000 of them, wasn't it?
12:09
That's that's pretty significant.
12:14
I would I would just think that it should be incumbent upon
12:17
the manufacturers to try and and produce
12:21
the best quality vehicles that they can.
12:25
And I I know people get mad at me
12:29
because I I tend to not speak fondly or kindly afford.
12:34
But you you you can't.
12:40
How can you tell me you're not serious about quality
12:43
without telling me you're not serious about quality?
12:46
And the way you can tell me that is by the number
12:48
of recalls you have year in and year out.
12:51
And and so it just it just becomes
12:56
to me to a degree nonsensical when we hear
13:01
Farley and others speak
13:04
platitudes about Ford and what Ford stands for
13:08
and what Ford's doing.
13:09
And, you know, everything that they're doing
13:13
doesn't necessarily align with what the quality should be.
13:18
And it's kind of sort of sad to see.
13:23
But yet they they have a very loyal following.
13:26
What do you make, though, dad, of what's going on at Honda?
13:28
So obviously, this is a probe for engines.
13:31
But those engines, again, are actually kind of old relative
13:34
to, for example, what we're just showing 103,000 Ford F-150s.
13:37
They were twenty twenty threes to twenty twenty fives.
13:39
The other issues seem to be a little bit more backdated
13:42
anywhere from twenty sixteen to twenty twenty.
13:44
Do you anticipate that we're going to see other automakers
13:47
kind of following in Ford's footsteps with other quality issues?
13:50
Because to me, they're kind of apples and oranges,
13:52
like Honda's got issues from the past, Ford's got issues in the moment.
13:57
Well, let me put it this way.
14:00
I would feel better about Ford's situation
14:05
if if it was recalls or probes for vehicles that were nine,
14:11
you know, five to nine years old as opposed to vehicles
14:16
that are one or two or three years old.
14:18
Yeah. You know, let's face it.
14:21
Every manufacturer is struggling engine wise
14:26
to produce engines, at least
14:30
ice engines, internal combustion engines that meet federal guidelines
14:36
for emissions and everything else.
14:38
And and unfortunately, the way that most manufacturers
14:43
have decided to do that is to go to three and four cylinder turbo engines.
14:48
And so that typically a turbo engine has more strain on it
14:54
than say a six cylinder or eight cylinder engine would.
14:59
And so I think most manufacturers are struggling to a degree
15:06
with the quality of their engines.
15:09
And I think historically we can see that since most have switched
15:14
like four cylinder turbo turbo engines and gone away with sixes and eightes.
15:20
So I would think that would, in my mind, lead me to believe
15:25
that we will see more engineering calls moving forward
15:29
for all these fuel, more fuel efficient, less emission
15:36
producing engines that all the manufacturers have tried to come out with.
15:41
Kind of where my head goes as well.
15:42
And then it's juxtaposed with the fact that cafe standards just got erased.
15:45
So now we're going to go back to using prior technology
15:48
that's more bulletproof.
15:49
I'm thinking about that V8 Cummins diesel engine I was in a couple of weeks ago.
15:53
That thing has no issues, never has seemingly never will.
15:55
But all the new tech that you're talking about.
15:58
OK, let's switch gears, Dad.
15:59
Let's turn our attention over to Audi.
16:01
They had some pretty big news last week that I think is indicative
16:03
of potential broader trends in the auto industry.
16:07
Audi hikes 2026 prices by up to forty one hundred dollars
16:11
in mid tariffs adds free maintenance.
16:13
There you go, folks.
16:14
Well, you know, I may I say something.
16:16
You know, I helped run an Audi dealership.
16:20
And I'm not sure that that that you're going to spend forty one
16:25
hundred dollars on maintenance the first three years.
16:28
I would I would bet dollars to doughnuts that you're going to spend forty one
16:34
hundred dollars in maintenance after the warranty runs out.
16:38
But yeah, that's yeah, we're going to charge you forty one hundred dollars more.
16:42
But don't worry about it.
16:43
We're going to do your first three oil changes for free.
16:47
Let's keep looking into this, Dad.
16:49
Forty one hundred is the high end of what Audi is doing.
16:52
Let's jump in here.
16:54
It's going to see its prices go up
16:56
nineteen hundred dollars starting MSRPs at forty one thousand three hundred
16:59
ninety five dollars. The A6 all road good looking vehicle going up twenty
17:03
hundred bucks to seventy four thousand three hundred ninety five.
17:06
The RS seven RIP to the RS seven being forty one hundred dollars more affordable.
17:11
It's now up to one thousand or excuse me, one hundred and thirty two thousand
17:14
nine hundred ninety five dollars eight going up by thirty one hundred bucks
17:18
to Q for each run by eight hundred bucks to Q seven by sixteen hundred
17:21
bucks, the Q eight by twelve hundred bucks and the E Tron GT by twenty two
17:26
hundred dollars. Now, what's interesting here, Dad, is we were actually interviewed.
17:29
You were interviewed.
17:30
You were actually featured in an NPR piece on Marketplace last week on Friday.
17:34
You're talking about how the model year changeover is slower this year and
17:39
also we're anticipating more price increases during this model year changeover.
17:44
So what do you make of here, Audi coming out and saying, hey,
17:46
the twenty twenty six vehicles are going to have a price increase.
17:49
Are you surprised by the amount of these price increases or not?
17:52
And do you anticipate seeing more manufacturers announce these price
17:56
increases and trying to justify, you know, hey, but now you're getting free
17:59
maintenance when really it's just in response to tariffs.
18:03
What's your take on this?
18:04
My take is that, you know, they don't want to use the tariff word because
18:09
they don't want to they don't want to piss anybody off.
18:12
So they don't want to use the tariff word.
18:14
So rather than use the tariff words, well, we're, you know,
18:18
hey, it's a twenty twenty six.
18:20
It's got the latest and greatest.
18:22
It's really got to enhance this or an enhanced that.
18:25
Plus, plus we're adding free maintenance.
18:28
So they're making it seem like they've added so much to the vehicles
18:34
that that's the root cause of the price increases.
18:39
Typically, the price increases from from one model year to the next
18:45
don't range from eight hundred dollars to forty one hundred dollars.
18:50
OK, that typically they're not that high.
18:54
So I think we're we're just trying to use different words to describe what's happening.
19:02
And do you think we're going to continue to see price increase
19:06
announcements like this?
19:07
I mean, obviously we saw it with Subaru on many of their vehicles.
19:09
Now Audi coming out.
19:11
Audi actually already earlier this year announced the Q five,
19:14
which is not covered here.
19:15
Q five price went up by as much as almost what was it over over four figures.
19:20
It was it was like around five thousand dollars.
19:25
Yes, in answer to your question, yes, I think we're going to see more
19:29
manufacturers with larger model year price increases
19:35
for the twenty twenty six model year than what we historically have seen.
19:40
And it all boils down to the fact
19:42
that the manufacturers can only afford to eat
19:46
so much of the added tariff costs that that they've encountered.
19:53
You know, Ford said it was billions of dollars.
19:56
GM said it's billions of dollars.
20:00
Toyota is saying it's like ten billion dollars.
20:03
We know that Mazda is costing them one hundred and fifty million dollars a month.
20:08
These these are profit driven businesses.
20:13
Can they can they operate on a lower profit margin than what they had in the past?
20:20
Yes, they're proving that they can.
20:22
They're eating as much of this as they as they can.
20:25
But at a certain point, they can't and they will not eat at all
20:31
to think otherwise is really kind of foolish.
20:35
So in my opinion, they're just going to couch the price increases in.
20:40
Well, it's the new model year and we've added certain enhancements.
20:44
And that's why the prices are going up as much as they are.
20:49
The real dilemma for all these manufacturers is how to how to do this
20:55
and still make affordable vehicles.
21:00
You know, because we know there's an affordability issue
21:03
and you can't keep raising prices and and and and take care of that affordability issue now.
21:11
Obviously, I hope to some degree is that the Fed will lower interest rates next month.
21:17
And so we'll see lower auto rates in the future.
21:21
So perhaps the lower interest rate will mitigate some of the price increase,
21:26
at least monthly payment wise for a lot of buyers.
21:29
There's a lot currently writing on exactly that on interest rates coming down.
21:33
And for some context here, folks, Toyota,
21:36
they announced that they were going to raise their prices on average
21:38
two hundred and seventy dollars across their lineup for the new model year.
21:42
Honda for the Civic increased the price by three hundred and forty five dollars.
21:47
And Nissan has said higher prices may come into play later this year.
21:51
So we are seeing again with Audi, for example, a significantly larger
21:55
and Subaru, too, I don't want to leave Subaru off.
21:57
Yeah. What was it that was the Subaru?
22:00
It was Subaru was was like seven hundred and fifty five
22:04
dollars to a little over two thousand dollars were the price increases across the board.
22:09
And that's that's that's a pretty significant price increase,
22:14
regardless of it, of, you know, it's a new refreshed model.
22:20
I get it. You know, I remember.
22:23
Back in the in the olden days, when I was with Acura
22:28
and they refreshed the TL and in that when they refreshed that in 1999,
22:37
they actually lowered the price by four or five thousand dollars
22:41
and they increased the level of standard equipment significantly.
22:47
So it is it is possible
22:51
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22:55
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23:01
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are going up and by a significant amount from Matthew earlier in the show.
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Dan, appreciate seeing you here, Matthew.
25:29
As always, an Audi A6 all road is seventy five thousand dollars.
25:33
That was the starting MSRP F me almost high and money.
25:38
I mean, probably when you start adding options and things like that.
25:41
Yeah, we're competing with a Porsche.
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I was talking to some friends over the weekend that yes, and they were talking
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about, you know, they wanted to get a new car, but they didn't want to spend
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more than like, you know, a couple hundred bucks a month.
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They remember back in the day, if I was going to spend seven hundred
25:54
fifty a thousand dollars a month on a car, I'd want like a Porsche 911.
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Like it's absurd when you go into the market to buy a car
26:00
and you haven't been, I don't know, in four or five years.
26:02
It's a totally different ballgame.
26:04
You know, I there there's always been as long as as long as I had been
26:10
in the car business, there has always been sticker shock.
26:15
I mean, people are just amazed at the price of things.
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Sticker shock today is like you need one of those cardiac arrest things
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to, you know, to attach to somebody's chest when they walk into a showroom
26:32
and they see what the price of vehicles are.
26:35
When we were at the Detroit auto show and that was a year and a half ago
26:40
or two years, two years ago, it'll be two years next month.
26:43
We were, we were, I mean, we're in the business and we were literally
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flabbergasted at the price of vehicles that they had on display.
26:55
It is so, so somebody who hasn't been in the market since, I don't know,
27:01
2018, 2019, maybe even 2020.
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When they get back in the market today, I'm telling you,
27:09
somebody's going to have to resuscitate them because it is just
27:13
staggering how pricey vehicles have gotten.
27:19
You know, when you showed the Audi numbers, the A3, it's their entry level
27:24
cars starts at 41 large.
27:28
Okay. For their entry level car.
27:30
Now, I, you know, I understand that that they consider themselves a luxury
27:35
brand akin to BMW and Mercedes-Benz,
27:40
except like they're the redheaded stepsister of those three.
27:46
And the A3, I mean, if you said it's a nice little car and they weren't 41 grand.
27:53
So it is, it's just staggering when you look at the prices today
27:58
and what people are going to face when they walk into a dealership.
28:02
And I think when we see an announcement like we saw from Audi,
28:05
it needs to be couched in this data from car hearers.
28:08
This is back from July, but we are only at to your point at 13% of the
28:13
model mix right now being 2026s.
28:16
Most 80% of inventory are 2025s and 5% are 2024s are older.
28:22
And you can see here dad, some brands in particular Honda, they have
28:26
the most inventory that are 2026s on dealer lots right now.
28:30
They're number one here with almost half of their inventory being 2026s.
28:35
And that leads me into a really interesting comment, which is,
28:38
I just posted this over on X that this is one of the deals that our
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concierge team was able to recently secure for one of our customers.
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They are taking advantage of our 20% off promotion.
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And look at this dad, this is on a 2026 Honda passport.
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We're talking about maybe overly inflated MSRPs yielding really big
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dealer discounts. This is a seventy five hundred dollar dealer discount.
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MSRP of fifty seven thousand nine hundred and seventy dollars
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selling price of fifty thousand three hundred and sixty eight dollars
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and fifty seven cents. Yes, Florida, they're adding a twelve hundred
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dollar dock feedback and and and a four hundred dollar processing fee.
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There is sixteen hundred dollars in make believe fees, ladies and gentlemen.
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But that's not the point here, dad.
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The point that I want to hammer home is that this is a brand new twenty
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twenty six Honda passport that has an inflated price.
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Fifty thousand dollars for a Honda SUV.
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And again, Honda is the manufacturer that has the most number of inflated
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price twenty twenty six vehicles on the road right now.
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And it's yielding dealerships giving you don't want to call it a seventy
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five hundred dollar discount because they add sixteen hundred dollars back.
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A fifty four hundred dollar discount, which is a 10% off of MSRP discount
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on a brand new vehicle.
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That's that's like Stalantis type crap that we see, you know what I mean?
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Like to me, this is uber fascinating for the dynamics of what's going on in the market.
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I mean that that that's a hefty discount and and that would be a discount
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that if if somebody shopped it, say, in Georgia, they wouldn't be able to
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get that same discount because the dealer in Georgia probably doesn't charge
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sixteen hundred dollars in processing and dock fees.
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Um, because those are just pure profit.
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So you have to you really have to look at the size of a discount
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and then and then compare it to the size of processing and dock fees.
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Of course, that I didn't bring it up in service of that.
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I brought it up in service.
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Take a second, stick with me here.
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I just wanted to say that as a warning to people out there
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because you can get hung up on the size of the discount.
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And when there's other factors involved, that's why I believe you and I always
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remind people to get the out the door number with the breakdown of all the fees.
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So that's what you want to shop against.
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But yes, I understand what you're saying that that these overpriced
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vehicles are yielding much larger discounts than they have in the past.
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In order to be able to sell them.
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But just between you and me, who the hell in their right minds
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looking at a fifty eight thousand dollar Honda Passport?
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I mean, again, that was a deal done by one of our concierge team members.
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So one of our community members and customers to add one of the
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five dollars dollar to the eight thousand dollar Honda Passport.
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So we appreciate them.
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But I hear you loud and clear.
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And again, that's why I brought it up is like there's one manufacturer
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who has flooded the market with the most twenty twenty six model year vehicles.
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We know twenty twenty six model year vehicles are more expensive than
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their predecessors because of tariffs, even if they might say otherwise.
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And then what's ultimately happening is they're not selling.
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And so you see dealers offering 10 percent off MSRP on a Honda, which is absurd.
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Like a year ago, two years ago, two years ago, you're not getting 10
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percent of MSRP on a Honda, maybe to get 10 percent off the Jeep, but not the Honda.
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Because they are not selling at seventy thousand or sixty thousand dollar price points
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four years ago, you would have you would have probably paid a ten thousand
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dollar dealer market adjustment to have the privilege of being able to buy one
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when there was a a a girth of fine Honda available vehicles.
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Yeah, so there you go.
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Times certainly are a change in math.
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You appreciate the contribution again.
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I'm old enough to remember a seventy five thousand dollar portion nine
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eleven and I'm not that old nine now.
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Right. Again, price is just going crazy.
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Missed pops at the Lake Tahoe open swim yesterday in the rain and thunder
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had to be brisk lest I get blitzed.
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Why weren't you swimming in Lake Tahoe yesterday?
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And and and you can verify this.
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One of my favorite places on the planet is Lake Tahoe.
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You know, we used to go up there every summer.
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I love it up there.
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You know, I'm here at the at the Jersey.
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Sure, I got the ocean.
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What what the hell do I have to slip all the way out the Lake Tahoe
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so I can go swim in some ice cold water?
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I I I don't think so.
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But but you know, I if I live there, it'd be a different story.
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Pops, let's answer science question.
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What's a good discount off MSRP on a new twenty twenty six key of sport
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to try and negotiate down the OTT price using your best practices
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and data on car edge.
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So here's what we're going to do, folks.
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That's a friendly reminder that right now we're offering 20% off
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and our car buying services.
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Check it out at caredge.com.
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I'm going to click on shop new bear with me for a moment here.
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I've got my zip code set to Scottsdale, Arizona,
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so we're going to roll with that.
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We're going to do Kia.
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What was it that Kia Sportage?
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OK, I mean a second here, Sportage.
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We don't need to look nationwide.
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We can look within 50 miles of where I currently am.
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Can we look at what others have paid through our research tax?
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No, I'm going to do it this way.
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Yeah, no, absolutely.
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There's no other ways to do it.
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Yeah, it depends on the trim.
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But I'm going to go ahead and just click on this first one here.
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So a couple of things I'm looking at.
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First thing I'm looking at is what was the dealer's invoice price?
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Just a good data point for me.
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We've got a target discount range.
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This is the dealer discount that we're suggesting is anywhere
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from 500 bucks to 1500 bucks.
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And then to my dad's point, if I scroll down here,
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I can see what other Car Edge customers have gotten.
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So here's a used one that's super helpful.
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We've got a new 2025 in Florida that got $1,500 off
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through our concierge service.
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Here was a 24 in Maryland that got $2,000 off.
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Another 24, another 25 got $1,000 off.
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Another 25 got $500 off.
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So there's some good data here that you can use
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to help inform your discount.
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But I'm saying, yeah, anywhere between 500,
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I don't think we got $33,000 off,
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maybe a little fat finger going on there.
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But I'd say anywhere between, where was it?
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I'm feeling like that's a pretty good answer for cyan pops.
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Yeah, shoot for around two grand.
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All right, I'm good with shooting for two grand too.
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It's a little higher than what we're saying,
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but you've got to start somewhere
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and maybe you'll work your way down.
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Something like that.
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You're not going to go in and go, hey, I'd like 500.
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And then get yourself the two bread, yeah.
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Yeah, yeah, you got to do the same thing the dealers do.
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And that is, you can't get what you don't ask for.
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So the dealers always ask hi.
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And you as the customer, you need to do the same thing.
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You say, well, I've done some research.
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I don't know, I'm thinking that the discount
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should probably be somewhere between two and 2,500 hours.
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How can we get there?
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And then the dance starts.
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And again, you can use all the services tools.
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We got the AI, we have anything to talk about that today.
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So check it out, cyan, and I'm certain
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we'll be able to help you out.
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Pops, let's call it a show for today.
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Huge thanks to our community who keep supporting us.
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Thank you to everyone who's taken advantage
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of our promotion right now.
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If we've helped you out in any way,
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obviously we appreciate when you subscribe and you share.
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We've got CoreGuy here keeping us on for a moment,
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which we appreciate.
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Pops, thank you, CoreGuy.
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I bought my nephew a $700 manuals,
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2006 Honda Civic in Toddham, how to drive it this week,
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and when's the Zach learns to drive a stick video dropping?
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You're here in DC next week, Pops,
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or two weeks from now.
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Are we gonna make it happen?
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Well, if you can figure out where we can get our hands
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on a stick, a manual transmission car,
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I'm willing, you know.
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I wanna learn how to ski.
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I wanna learn how to drive manual.
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Well, we'll give it to just those two right now.
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I wanna learn how to ski and drive manual.
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So let's make it happen, Pops.
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Let's go, let's go.
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Wouldn't it be fun to learn how to drive a manual
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while you're driving to the slopes to ski?
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Yeah, no, I'll be in DC from the ninth
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to I'm coming back on the 13th.
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So, you know, Wednesday the 10th, Thursday the 11th,
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Friday the 12th, you can line up a manual transmission.
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I will film it along with you.
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And yeah, we will let people live vicariously
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through your struggles with the clutch and the gears.
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All right, Pops, let's do it all again tomorrow.
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Absolutely, I'll be here.
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All right, see you guys.
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Thank you, love you, handsome.