Comments on: The View From The Dealer Floor http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-dealzone/2009/09/23/the-view-from-the-dealer-floor/ Behind the deals and deal-makers Sun, 26 May 2013 00:35:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Mark M http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-dealzone/2009/09/23/the-view-from-the-dealer-floor/comment-page-1/#comment-348623 Mark M Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:34:34 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-dealzone/?p=17289#comment-348623 Come on. Gone are the days of planned obsolescence where you traded out before the cost of maintenance hit you. Not that long ago warranties for 3y/30k miles were replaced with 10/100. The paint doesn't even chip anymore. The secondary warranty market just exacerbates the ever increasing spread between when an auto is replaced for new. People got used to 2 year leases but the days of $79 a month (1997) are over. Not that long ago a BWM was $400 a month, now it's a Corolla and a 48 month lease -not that you can get approved for credit on either. Face it, the market has changed and it's due to more than a economic downturn. Come on.

Gone are the days of planned obsolescence where you traded out before the cost of maintenance hit you. Not that long ago warranties for 3y/30k miles were replaced with 10/100. The paint doesn’t even chip anymore.

The secondary warranty market just exacerbates the ever increasing spread between when an auto is replaced for new.

People got used to 2 year leases but the days of $79 a month (1997) are over. Not that long ago a BWM was $400 a month, now it’s a Corolla and a 48 month lease -not that you can get approved for credit on either.

Face it, the market has changed and it’s due to more than a economic downturn.

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