It’s All About the Turn Time

How can you secure and find the inventory at the right price, and couple that with what the customer wants?

UC Blue Book Market Report – December 2013

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Wholesale Used Vehicle Price Trends – Dec. 2013

  • Rebounding supply is putting downward pressure on wholesale prices and that will should continue, though strong retail demand is reducing the pressure a bit
  • Luxury cars and SUVs and sporty cars were the only segments that showed monthly upticks
  • Year over year, nearly all the truck segments were strong except for fullsize SUVs and compact pickups
 

Natural Gas Vehicle Tax Credit Ends, but the Odds Are Still in its Favor

Natural gas vehicles (NGV) like the Ford F-150 and Honda Civic Natural Gas have been attractive to many consumers and businesses – it’s been much cheaper than gasoline and diesel; and a lot of people enjoy that it’s a domestically produced fuel and not coming from an overseas OPEC country.

A federal tax incentive expired in Washington on December 31 that’s increasing gas pump prices – up to 50 cents for each gasoline gallon equivalent (GGE) of natural gas sold at a lot of fueling stations.

There are a few reasons as to why it won’t be going away:

Even if the tax credit takes its strong price savings off a bit, it’s still a good deal. It might come back in Washington, and legislators are looking at the options.

There are a few other items to keep in mind – check out coverage of the issues here……

 

Editor: Climate Change Deniers vs. The Planet

We were staggered by the implications posed by the United Nations, as cited in a recent article in the New York Times: “Nations have so dragged their feet in battling climate change that the situation has grown critical and the risk of severe economic disruption is rising...Another 15 years of failure to limit carbon emissions could make the problem virtually impossible to solve with current technologies, experts found.”

Here’s a question for the climate change deniers within the US Congress who point to the Polar Vortex as further proof of their stance...

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