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On 9/25/2015 9:50 AM, wrote:
On Fri, 25 Sep 2015 07:05:48 -0700, Don Y
wrote:

On 9/24/2015 6:56 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 9/24/2015 6:31 PM, Frank wrote:

I have it on good authority that my Subaru dealer makes more money off
of selling used Subaru's than he does new ones.

I also get new at under invoice.

I've heard that from a couple of local dealers. They like selling used.

The big win for the dealer on "new" is that they are more likely
to CONTINUE to encounter those customers in their service departments!

No, the big win for the new car dealer is the profit they will make on
the trade-in. Generally speaking at least twice the profit they make
on the new car.

Do people still trade in their old cars? Here they sell them on
craigslist or on one of those lots where you pay a fee to put the car there.

I found it amusing that the Toyota dealer is pushing a third year of
prepaid service on new cars that already come with two years. The thing
is that the only real service that is needed during that time is an oil
change every 10,000 miles. They kept repeating, "it uses synthetic oil
which is expensive."