Yuk.

If you could get a good price on one of those (which were the hot, hard to get vehicles at that time), it would have made sense. Now, it would be the other way around.

Columbus, Ohio — In the glory days of Detroit carmakers in the 1960s, Leonard J. Immke Jr. used to sell 200 new Buicks a month from his vast downtown showroom here filled with gleaming Electras, Rivieras and Skylarks. Now, it takes Len Immke Buick at least a year to sell 200 new cars from its smaller location on the city’s blue-collar east side. In May, it sold 10.

Most days, only a handful of customers wander in; in rain or snow, there might be none. The pace slows even more at dusk, when the salesmen turn their attention to emptying wastebaskets and vacuuming the carpet. They assumed nightly chores two years ago when the store had to lay off the janitors and other workers to stay in business.

Ya know, post Chapter 7 or 11 or whatever filing, I wouldn’t be surprised to see that kind of deal. What would the market value of a new Durango be sans warranty?!?

something like: buy a sedona, get an accent…

My parents just took in their Grand Caravan for a tire check, leaky rims on a 2006 with only 11,000 KMs. They have been waiting 4 days to get it back as the dealer decided it needed a rear A/C condensor and a new A/C compressor. This is Canada and the AC runs about 1/3 of the cars lifetime. Of course while he is in the show room they are all over him to trade in his low mileage vehicle for a great deal on a new one.