Join Ford for Ford Digiknows
March 2, 2009 by Brad - Your Car Guy · Comments Off
Bartlesville, Get in the Know with Ford Digiknows
I wrote a a blog post a couple of days ago to urge a Bartlesville driver or two to enter Ford’s Fiesta Movement. Well, today I’m back with another way that Bartlesville Tulsa and Oklahoma residents can get personally involved with Ford. If you have an internet connection then you have a line straight to the people who develop Ford products to let them know what it is that is important to you. Its called Ford DigiKnows.
Ford Digiknows is a weekly live streaming video event produced by Ford that allows you to talk with the experts from Ford while they give you an up close and personal tour of all the innovative new technologies Ford has to offer. The host of the weekly event, Emmy award winning radio and television news anchor and Detroit native Michael Collins, takes you behind the scenes of the Ford Motor Company and lets you be among the first to see and discuss everything that is today’s Ford.
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2009 Toyota Prius Tops Consumer Reports Best Value List
March 1, 2009 by Brad - Your Car Guy · Comments Off
Well Bartlesville Toyota fans, it looks like the Toyota prius has earned yet another honor. In the recent Annual Auto Issue of Consumer Reports Magazine the Toyota prius was named as the debut recipient of the brand new “Best New Car Value” title.
This title is new this year and one that Consumer Reports offered, along with the magazines traditional rankings of top vehicles, to highlight for consumers the car determined to be the best value across a five year period. According to the press release “To determine which cars are the best values, Consumer Reports looks at its overall road-test scores, five-year owner-cost estimates, and predicted reliability ratings for more than 300 recently tested vehicles. CR then divided each vehicle’s five-year owner-cost by its overall road-test score to get the cost of each test-score point — the lower the cost-per-point, the better the value. To ensure the vehicles named as best values were also models that held up well over time, choices were limited to those with above-average predicted reliability ratings. Consumer Reports’ owner-cost estimates are based on six major elements: depreciation, fuel economy, insurance, interest on financing, maintenance and repair, and sales tax.”
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New Tax Deductions for Bartlesville New Car Buyers
February 21, 2009 by Brad - Your Car Guy · Comments Off
The economy is currently not in the best of shape. We here in Bartlesville, Oklahoma are feeling the pinch of difficult economic times just as people across the nation are. The stock market has spiraled downward at unprecedented levels, financial institutions have lined up with their hands out at the government’s door, unemployment is on a steady increase and people who are still fairly financially stable are sitting on their funds, wary of making purchases.
Is it the Attitude or the Confidence?
The problem with this is that the exchange of money for goods is what keeps the economy functioning. When we have tough economic times like these the lack of public confidence in the economy, brought on by the news of the markets and such, is often just as detrimental as the events that caused the lack of confidence. So what happens is consumers end up unwittingly compounding the problem. The answer to this would seem to be economic stimulus at the consumer level. Read more
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Ten Signs You Need a New Car
February 18, 2009 by Brad - Your Car Guy · 2 Comments
People love their cars. They form bonds with them very much like they form with friends and family members, especially in parts of the country, like here in Bartlesville, where a car is a necessary part of life. And what’s not to love. Cars are, for the most part, beautiful pieces of machinery that make our lives a lot easier and a lot more fun. Every now and then, though, that love can turn into something ugly. I mean really ugly.
Do you know anyone who has a favorite shirt or pair of jeans that they have had waaayyyy too long? You know, the ones with all the holes in them that show some patches of skin that normally aren’t supposed to see daylight. Well, people often have a tendency to do the same thing with their cars. They drive them until the simply wont run any longer.
The problem is that, just as with people you love, when you are too close to something you often have problems seeing its faults. With people this is fine. We should hold onto them as long as we can. But cars are inanimate objects and there comes a time when it is high time to just let that sucker go.
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Auto Consumer Myth — Lease Rates are Non-Negotiable
February 5, 2009 by Brad - Your Car Guy · Comments Off
Welcome back to our series of posts on auto consumer myths. Today we will be looking at the myth that lease rates are non-negotiable. So let’s get right to it, crack this myth open and see what’s inside.
The Leasing Option
Not everyone looking for a new Ford, Lincoln, Mercury, Toyota or any make of vehicle is interested in buying. Some people, more often in major cities but here in Bartlesville and in mid-sized and small towns across the country as well, are actually more interested in the leasing option. And for some consumers, leasing really is a better option than buying.
If you are someone who either likes to buy a new car every two or three years or someone who would prefer to drive a higher end car with the monthly payment of a lower priced car, then leasing might be the best route for you. There are a few criteria you should make sure you can meet before deciding to go the lease route, which I will list at the end of the article. For now let’s say you are one of the people who would be a good lease candidate and look at what is and is not a negotiable part of a lease contract.
Lease Contract Negotiation Prep
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