The Very Best Amazon Prime Day Deals

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(We hope your employer gave you Amazon Prime Day off, as this is a special time one should spend surrounded by loved ones. If the automotive version of this once-annual promotion ground your gears, you won’t like this one. But you never know. I’m told this is the last one, with our regular programming to follow. – Ed)

If you live for online shopping, you live for this day. Some call it Black Friday/Cyber Monday in July (it doesn’t quite have the same ring to it as “Christmas in July” does it?). All we know is you’re about to save a bundle on so many things you need. And a lot of stuff you just want. So go ahead, treat yourself; get shopping. But first, you’re going to want an Amazon Prime membership.

Home Electronics
Home Office
Household and Kitchen
Sports and Fitness
Kids

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  • Sgeffe Sgeffe on Jul 17, 2018

    The pop-up ads (despite my AdBlocker+) are indeed ridiculous! C’mon, VerticalScope, I’ll drop a couple bucks your way to stop this crap! As stated above, Sam Walton eviscerated Main Street (and I haven’t darkened the door of a Walley World in the past 15 years as a “protest”), and BezosAllYourShoppingAreBelongToME is only compounding it. (That said, I buy a few things here and there from them, only if I can’t find something locally, even if it is a “big box,” e.g. Home Despot, Blowes, Kohl’s, etc.! But pretty soon, they’ll be the only game in town! Not good.)

  • Mermilio Mermilio on Jul 18, 2018

    Incredibly disappointing.

  • Rover Sig Sedans/coupes fill an important role. They can range in size, price, and gas mileage so as to be ideal for many buyers. The market is still there to justify the production, although small SUVs and crossovers dominate the market. There is even room for the station wagon (I think of the Outback as a station wagon, although a lot of you call it a SUV). External factors, like the retreat from EVs and the potential for increased gas prices, make sedans an important sector - not just a niche. Besides, they generally handle better than SUVs, don't they?
  • Bd2 Sonota and K5 are each an absolute unit in the segment. High ATPs tell the story of money to be made in sedans.
  • MaintenanceCosts Nope. The CUV is now the default car, and the sedan is a specialty product. For baseline competitiveness the OEMs need a full lineup of CUVs. Full-line OEMs also need pickup trucks and a couple sizes of SUVs. Sedans are what coupes used to be: a bonus afterthought.
  • Jeff I believe if they made sedans with usable trunks, taller, and easier to get in and out of more people would buy them. The trend toward sloped roofs, lower profiles, and small trunks has increased sales of crossovers and suvs.
  • KOKing Toyota still moved half a million Camrys and Corollas in the US last year, and although I can't find Model 3 numbers on their own, I'm guessing it's in the 200k range, so sedans aren't going the way of the PLC. Clearly SUVs and trucks have higher margins, and it's all about 'shareholder value' for the Big 3 in particular, so I don't seem them bringing em back if/until the pendulum swings back in another generation or two.
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