tommcparland
Tom McParland
tommcparland
Tom is a contributing writer for Jalopnik and runs AutomatchConsulting.com. He saves people money and takes the hassle out of buying or leasing a car. (Facebook.com/AutomatchConsulting)

It’s the lease incentive of $7500 that all leases get plus some factory lease cash that totals to almost $20,000 in combined discounts.  Read more

I think most of the “lifestyle” argument is that people don’t own their own homes and have the ability to charge. Read more

There are a few reasons. One, the buyer pool for EVs is so much smaller than for an ICE car as most folks either can’t or don’t want to make the lifestyle change to make them work. If you are fighting to score a small slice of that consumer market with hefty supply there is a race to the bottom for pricing. Read more

We finally get an M3 wagon in the US and it’s the ugliest M3 ever. Read more

Potential Tesla owners are worried about “Hate Crimes” because they CHOSE to own a Cybertruck....

Because Toyota doesn’t have to...they aren’t losing enough sales to the customer who is super picky to justify the custom order process.  Read more

I am going to say “Well...putting aside the fact that the minivan is still the best tool for this job, here are some other ideas.” Read more

I’m not a fan of the new Prius, and absolutely no Teslas Read more

We don’t get nearly as many requests as we used to...so often I have to dig WAY back into the archives of the requests to find a topic.  Read more

Autonation stores are usually no BS...no haggle but no drama either...of course there are exceptions to that rule, but I have generally had positive experiences with that dealer group Read more

VW Financial is passing on the tax credit to the consumer via $7500 rebate. The delaer has nothing to do with it. There are additonal factory rebates in play as well to get to that $149 payment. Read more

You would think that is the case, but my understanding is that if Trump wants to kill the credits once he is in he can do that. Whether or not that will actually happen who knows. Read more

With the amount of money the airlines make every year...I’m sure they can figure something out.  Read more

I dunno if you are new here...but “X Car Is A Good Deal In The Used Market Right Now” is a pretty consistent blog from me over the years.  Read more

I only made this comment becuase I have frequently dunked on Dave Ramsey in several articles.  Read more

Genesis owner probably should have listed to Dave Ramsey  :D Read more

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Not eating isn’t even that impressive...let’s see them sing along and hit both vocal parts -

This was using a Northeast zip code...Chicago has weird rules with leases hence why the payment might be higher Read more