Local Kia dealer is running an ad now, if you buy a Kia Sedona minivan, you get a Kia Rio (small car) for free. What a deal, eh? “Two cars for the price of one!”, they say. I remember maybe around 1980, a local Cadillac dealer was selling De Villes with a free Toyota Tercel or something. Seemed desparate for the Cadillac guys to do it, seems a little desparate for the Kia guys to do it too. but if I needed a car, that would be a stop I’d make.
Huh. Unless I was specifically looking for two cars, that type of ‘bargain’ would actually put me off. I’d have to pay taxes/insurance/upkeep on that second car, unless I knew of someone who needed a car and was willing to buy it off of me cheap.
Besides, at the current moment space is at a premium: I wouldn’t have anywhere to put an extra car.
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Hm, '04 Sedona is about $20k, and the Rio starts at about $10k. Assuming the dealer can get the Rios for $8k, and the Sedonas for $17 that still leaves them in the red $5k–anyone got any clues how they do this? Or are they probably getting profits in the way of manufacturer bonuses for moving volume?
Kias ain’t BMWs, but they are certainly worth $20k for this pair.
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Errf? What’s it going to cost for this? $125/month on average? For a $10k car you never had to pay for? I suppose you’d complain about getting $6,500 after your $10,000 lottery payoff got taxed? Here’s a quarter man, buy a clue: Pay $20k, get 2 cars, keep the van & sell the Rio brand new for $8k with no miles–you end up with a $20k van for $12k…Which you could even sell for $17k for a tidy profit of $5k. Not bad for a week’s labors if you’re as strapped as you must be to complain about tax/insurance on a freakin’ Kia. 
They’ve probably jacked up the price of the Sedona. There was a similar ad running here, where you get a second Kia free, when you buy any new Kia. The catch was, you buy a “new” kia with $2000 added to the price, and the free one is used.
My husband used to work for a large dealership, and quit because of the quilt he had about ripping people off. There are no “deals”, when it comes to buying new cars.
he had guilt not a quilt. :rolleyes:
hillbilly queen, I haven’t investigated the offer as I’m not in the market, but I bet the scenario you describe is the case here. They do not mention whether the Rio is new or not, and I’m was betting that there would be little to no haggling on the price. I never thought about a premium. I’m sure the dealers wouldn’t do it if there wasn’t some money it for them. No matter the deal, if the sales manager OKs it, you got taken. 
Sounds like it’s becoming a common hook - a Dodge dealer here recently ran ads stating that if you bought a new Ram truck they’d “throw in” a 2002 Neon.
For a car I didn’t orignally want to get (else I would have bought it to begin with), and would have to spend an unknown amount of my time having to deal with in some fashion or another. [Either by selling it (assuming I could find someone to buy it), keeping it, donating it, etc.] I’d much rather avoid the hassle to begin with. Buy hey, if you have the time to spend dealing with it and make a profit of a sorts on it, more power to you.
Now with a lottery, that I definately would expect to pay taxes on: but, beyond sending in a check I’m not spending anywhere near the potential time dealing with that.
As a side note, I do presume that you can refuse the deal: after all, if I walk into a grocery store and they’re having a buy-one get-one free offer on an item, I don’t have to get the second item.
Sounds like it might be quite a good deal for a family who is looking at a new family vehicle and has a teenager who might need a car soon. For a single person, it’s probably not a good deal.