Nearly 52% of people go to a dealership, be it Jeep dealers or Chrysler dealers or whatever you prefer to imagine. This indicates that more than half of all car buyers don’t actually care about the particular car that they get. They just know they want something new, and the details are fairly fluid. That’s not you though. You’re doing your research ahead of time, and as such you will be better able to judge which car on that Jeep dealers lot is the right one for you.
Does Brand Even Matter? Sometimes.
Other than driving a 1970s Ford Pinto, pretty much any car you might desire will be fine. We don’t usually like to acknowledge that most cars fulfill their job perfectly, in that they take us from point A to point B with consistency. However, automotive brands have made reputations by emphasizing key characteristics of their vehicles, and it would be remiss not to mention those.
I Want a Jeep-Made Vehicle. Is This a Good Choice?
Ask a person to think of a Jeep, and they’ll probably picture the Jeep Wrangler. These are the quintessential off-roading vehicle. However, go to any Jeep dealers and you’ll find that this brand makes a wide variety of vehicles, with many of even the SUV models able to go off-roading. That is what the Jeep brand is known for, ruggedness. If that is a priority, by all means this might be a vehicle brand to investigate further.
Are There Really Advantages of Buying a New Car?
A popular statistic in the dealership world is that a car immediately loses some of its value the moment you buy it and drive it off the lot. Unlike a house, it is fairly well known and accepted that a car will be sold for less than you paid for it, unless it’s a rare vintage model of course. Your monthly car payment should be 20% of your take-home pay, so don’t think you’ll be able to sell it back soon after buying it. A used car, on the other hand, depreciates more slowly. It also has a higher mileage.
Everyone idly daydreams about a flashy new car that they can take for a drive through a beautiful location. Yet when they need to buy a new car, they don’t do any research. They show up at the dealership and are swayed into buying a vehicle they’re lukewarm about. Don’t be that person. Figure out the car you want to drive. Then decide if you’re willing to buy it used. Only then are you ready to go down the the dealership to do business.