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When To Buy A Car – New Car Dealer Shares Best Timing Secrets

August 09, 2019

Is There A Best Time To Buy A Car?
When is the best time to buy a new car?  Or the best time to buy a used car?  And what's the best time to lease a car?

These questions have surely crossed every money-conscious car buyer's mind.  Also, for some of us (myself included), there's no peace of mind until the answers are uncovered.

But what really is the best time to pull the trigger and lock-in the very best deals?  And if you ask most car dealerships the answer will more than likely be today - right now!

The Best Time To Buy A Car:

When to buy a new car?
And, when to buy a used car?
Or, when to buy a certified pre-owned car?
Plus, when to lease a new car?

"...the misconception would be the end of the month, end of the year, end of/end of, but I think that’s kind of what the dealers want you to think."
Some will swear the best time to buy a car is at the end of the month.  While others will say the best time to buy a car is the end of the quarter.  Then again, another camp will suggest the best time to buy a car and get good deals is the end of the month, quarter and year!

Conversely, others will say the spring/summer holidays or the autumn/winter holidays are the best time to buy a car.

As if car buying wasn't already stressful enough- d'Oh!  So here's yet another factor to add to the overall car buying equation - when?

Lucky for us my pal Lewis Cook from Martin Chevrolet agreed to share more car dealer secrets!

In this podcast, Lewis takes us behind the scenes to answer the question, when is the best time to buy a car?  And as you'll find out the answer is different depending on what you're buying - and many other factors.  But it's all here!

Click play to listen to this podcast and pick up all the pearls of car-buying wisdom Lewis shares with us.  This is some seriously awesome stuff.  Take notes.  Or just print this page because the entire transcript from our talk is below!

When Is The Best Time To Purchase Your Next Car?
Lewis: I think the misconception would be the end of the month, end of the year, end of/end of, but I think that’s kind of what the dealers want you to think. We, for the most part, play on that misconception.

Specifically, in the used car world, I think the trick would be for the consumer to be patient.
"...this is going to be relevant to the listeners for sure and I think you’ll be a little bit shocked..."
What happens in the new car world is we don’t have to pay interest on these cars for the first three or four months.
"...we have these misconceptions—I call them misconceptions—may be President’s Day is better, maybe Memorial Day is better, is it the end of the month or is it the beginning of the month—what is the better time to buy the car? I always go back to just be educated."
I think if you have that partner in your corner, that’s going to help you through that buying process. It doesn’t really matter when you’re buying the car.
Car Dealer Secrets Revealed On When Is The Best Time To Buy
Tom: Welcome to iDriveSoCal, the podcast. All about mobility from the automotive capital of the United States, Southern California. Tom Smith here and I am joined by my good pal, Mr. Lewis Cook, here at Martin Chevrolet on Hawthorne Boulevard in Torrance, California.

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