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Is the hot/weird Covid car market doing better by now?

• itsoktocry 4y ago
  >Is the hot/weird Covid car market doing better by now? Not really, at least in Canada. I've been shopping for a compact commuter for a couple of months. I'll use my Honda experience as an example: late model (2019-2021) are selling for the price of brand new Civics. However, you can't get a new Civic, since the local dealership is getting a trickle at unknown cadence. My dealer said they are getting FOUR this quarter, and they were already spoken for. I had similar experience at Hyundai, and the Toyota lot has nothing. It's still wild. Meanwhile, financing rates are over 8% on used cars, with stellar credit.
  • no_wizard 4y ago
    In the US, I only had luck with Kia. I don't know why, but I found Kia dealerships in the area where I bought my car (Sacramento) for MSRP. Actually managed to negotiate a good price without the BS dealership markup and silly add-ons. I don't know if its an anomaly or not, I may have just gotten extremely lucky after looking for over a year, and it was only with Kia and their Soul model, not any other line.
  • HellDunkel 4y ago
    That’s also my impression. Delivery times of more than a year are not uncommon. Tesla seem to be doing a few things right though