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From today's Wall Street Journal:
As the U.S. auto business re- starts, car buyers returning to showrooms are likely to con- front a frustrating reality: slim- mer pickings and fewer deals on the new-car lot.

Ford Motor Co.’s U.S. sales chief, Mark LaNeve, said Tues- day that auto-industry spending on discounts and sales promotions moderated in May and is likely to drop further in June as inventories get thinner.
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just wait till the June (and probably July) numbers are catastrophic and rebates will get cranked up again. The used market needs to unwedge itself and pronto for new car sales to start up again.
 

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just wait till the June (and probably July) numbers are catastrophic and rebates will get cranked up again. The used market needs to unwedge itself and pronto for new car sales to start up again.
Hertz going bankrupt and tossing an extra, say, 100,000 cars onto the used car market may keep the wedge in there for a while.
 

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I picked up Hertz at 50 cents and could not be happier
just dont' expect to exit your position in a timely fashion (if at all) using RobbinHood as your broker.
 

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June and July numbers may be bad, but remember too that inventory is down. Supply & demand...

That's what I ran into, buying my car last month. Slim pickins.
 

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Yea I am glad I bought when I did but didn't quite get the car I wanted. Finding a Mustang GT Premium with PP1 and 6MT was surprisingly hard. I ended up without a Premium but a PP1 with 6MT and the color I wanted. Now I got to add leather and Sync 3 as the base 6 spkr stereo literally sucks balls.
 

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Yea I am glad I bought when I did but didn't quite get the car I wanted. Finding a Mustang GT Premium with PP1 and 6MT was surprisingly hard. I ended up without a Premium but a PP1 with 6MT and the color I wanted. Now I got to add leather and Sync 3 as the base 6 spkr stereo literally sucks balls.
man a dealer locally to me that’s all they had!
 

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man a dealer locally to me that’s all they had!

Actually I don't mind the Base 300a car, but I have to admit coming out of a 2013 BMW E92 M3 that I owned since new that was full leather and such it was an adjustment. I sold the car thinking or there would be a ton of inventory...there wasn't. What made it worse a lot of deals don't want to do a dealer trade. I found one but it was 100 miles away.
 

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Actually I don't mind the Base 300a car, but I have to admit coming out of a 2013 BMW E92 M3 that I owned since new that was full leather and such it was an adjustment. I sold the car thinking or there would be a ton of inventory...there wasn't. What made it worse a lot of deals don't want to do a dealer trade. I found one but it was 100 miles away.
I got my car how I wanted the 401a, B&O, white and black PP1. Beast of a ride!
 

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Yea I am glad I bought when I did but didn't quite get the car I wanted. Finding a Mustang GT Premium with PP1 and 6MT was surprisingly hard. I ended up without a Premium but a PP1 with 6MT and the color I wanted. Now I got to add leather and Sync 3 as the base 6 spkr stereo literally sucks balls.
This is exactly why I didn't buy a new 'Stang in the last couple of months, in spite of the availability of high rebates and low financing...I knew I would never be satisfied unless I found and purchased the exact car I wanted.
 

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I almost jumped back in but the deal wasn’t sweet enough to get me over some admin reasons why it is not quite ideal for me to get a mustang again quite yet. If they had come down another 2k, I might have bit. If that same blue GT is still there in Oct they might get an end of year sale if the deals pick back up.
 

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This is exactly why I didn't buy a new 'Stang in the last couple of months, in spite of the availability of high rebates and low financing...I knew I would never be satisfied unless I found and purchased the exact car I wanted.
That is why I ordered my Mustang in early February and by the time I took delivery in May I got 0% financing from Ford. I am glad I didn’t settle for what was on the lot. Salt Lake City isn’t known for having a wide variety of Mustangs for sale. I would guess Florida, Texas, Arizona or California would have a broad selection.
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