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Money Guy Show

Should You Buy a Car with Cash?

Money Guy Show

Brian Preston, CPA, CFP®, PFS and Bo Hanson, CFA, CFP® | Fee-Only Fiduciary Advisors

Education, Investing, Business

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Should you pay for a car with cash, or finance it over a few years? We get this question all the time - so what do we recommend? We'll walk you through that question and more in today's Q&A episode! Watch more exclusive content only on YouTube! Visit our website - Get our FREE financial resources - Check out our course, Know Your Number! - Sign up for our Financial Order of Operations course - Get easy to understand answers to your financial questions Follow us on social media! -Instagram -Twitter -Facebook -TikTok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

We're going to start it off with Joe's question.

0:10.0

He says, I have enough cash on hand to pay for my new car and full, but the dealership

0:15.7

is offering me a much better price if I finance.

0:20.2

Is there a catch here?

0:21.4

Or are there any other things to consider before I dive in and make this decision?

0:25.8

Yeah, it's really interesting, Brian.

0:27.7

One of the things, conventional wisdom used to always behave.

0:30.6

If I show up to a dealership or if I show up to purchase a car, if I have just like

0:35.6

an envelope full of cash, I can do my best wheeling and dealing.

0:39.4

If I come in and pay cash, I know that I can kind of like talk them down and negotiate,

0:45.1

but the world's changed a little bit.

0:46.4

I'm going off member here.

0:47.4

I think you had an experience.

0:49.4

It was almost the exact same as Joe's.

0:51.0

We're like, it was a very similar, hey, if you do this, then we'll do this.

0:55.4

Yeah, I mean, the world changes fast.

0:57.7

I mean, this is why when people say, why don't you just do one time plannings and other

1:02.5

things?

1:03.5

I'm like, have you looked around?

1:04.8

I mean, with innovation, technology and the world, it's moving so fast.

1:09.5

You need somebody at all times.

1:12.0

And this, the auto industry is a big example.

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