Buying a new car - real world example from fivecentnickel

fivecentnickel.com , which features " the money musings of a thirty-something family man..." has a great series of posts on buying a new car, in this case a Honda CRV. The example shows how to save money on your next car purchase and make sure you got the best deal possible.

Buying a new car
My modus operandi when it comes to car shopping is to keep the dealers at arm’s length until we find the deal that we want. To this end, I tend to rely on faxes and, more recently, e-mail. In short, I start by soliciting bids from all dealerships within about two hours of here. What follows is an example of the sort of message that I send. You should either direct it to the sales manager, or send it via e-mail to their internet sales person.

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