This is Why Sales are Slow & Likely to Stay That Way for a Long Time

[Joe Flacco]

They are saying to do what I have been saying forever. Their communication is just clumsy.

 

[J Grant]

They are saying to do what I have been saying forever. Their communication is just clumsy.

Apparently you cant read it because they are asking for a 12-month trend, not year after year - that can be additional if you want to comment on it

 

[Joe Flacco]

Wrong thread

 

[alebrewer]

Apparently you cant read it because they are asking for a 12-month trend, not year after year - that can be additional if you want to comment on it

I think what Flacco's saying is that F/F's desire for a 12 month trend is really a desire to capture any cyclical fluctuations in the market before making a determination of long term trend.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

I would have but they offered me 0.9%. I'd be crazy not to take it since my other investments have yielded around 10% for the past 30 years.

I didn't buy from a dealer. Bought a 22 Escape that had been in a fender bender - a wheel and quarter panel. A buddy of mine buys and rebuilds these. 8,000 miles on it. Took him a year to get parts. It's fell in value now as cars are dropping like a rock but still have less than a dealer would sell it for.

 

[Tom D]

This was going to be my last car so i bought a toyota, my 1st non american car. Figured it would last for 200,000 miles. I was looking at the plain suv model, but then i said i deserve the best ride possible and at least having a nice luxury suv in my current poverty life style. But, i did luck out with a 3% interest rate. Paid it off 3 years early with this past boom. So, i will never buy another car at my age if it lasts for 20 year.

 

[Mark K]

One of the luxuries I've afforded myself over the past 30 years is new cars. I've had dozens of used cars for me and my family over the years (especially when the kids started driving) but now we get new cars. I want to know how its been treated and maintained from mile 1. They're expensive but we keep them at least 10 years. Last one I sold was a 2003 Tahoe I had for 18 years and 250K miles; best car I ever owned. Sold to a neighbor a few years ago and he still drives it every day. My "new" Jeep is 9 yrs. old and just getting broken in.

 

[Fernando]

Cars are depreciating asset once out of the dealership.
As a salesman once said, a car is just to transport people and he didn't really care about the brand.
I can't believe cares can be for sale like at $100,000. It's not much relative to the million dollar home in silicon valley but if median price homes in nation is like $400,000, who in the right mind would buy a $100,000 car?

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

who in the right mind would buy a $100,000 car?

why not. Cannot make the payments on the house, you can live in the car. if it wasn't for the farm, I'd be living in a motor home. A house is just a PITA.