How to buy a car with confidence

Life Kit

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Kids & Family, Self-improvement, Business, Health & Fitness, Education

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🗓️ 17 July 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Buying a car can be intimidating. This episode will help you strategize to avoid all the potential pitfalls, so you can drive away with a good deal. This episode originally published February 18, 2020.

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0:00.0	You're listening to LifeKit.
0:02.0	From NPR.
0:04.0	Hey everybody, it's MaryL.
0:07.0	We had a special treat for you today.
0:09.0	It's an encore episode from 2020 by the Fantastic Chris Arnold.
0:13.0	And it's about how to buy a car.
0:15.0	Chris is a correspondent at NPR and he is hands down
0:19.0	one of my favorite people to listen to.
0:21.0	He is this way of making finance super clear and understandable
0:25.0	but also just funny and engaging.
0:28.0	So here it is.
0:30.0	I think you're going to learn a lot.
0:32.0	Car buying can be tricky.
0:39.0	Those folks at the dealership, they know everything about how to play this game
0:44.0	and you don't.
0:45.0	When I was being trained to be a car salesman,
0:48.0	the teacher drew what looked like a speedometer on the whiteboard
0:52.0	and he said, you need to get your customer up on the excitement meter.
0:56.0	That's Philip Reed.
0:58.0	He spent decades helping people make smarter car buying decisions
1:01.0	and that excitement meter he's talking about,
1:03.0	you want to keep an eye on that too.
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