welcome to the carpool podcast with kelly what is the stigma around used cars and pre-owned cars

like if you go out and buy a brand new car jen like i've seen your three kids it's going to look

like a used car in 60 days and liz it's not just like a well i kind of feel like new is the move or I kind of feel like uses the move. You really have to. There's a lot you have to look at and a lot you have to consider. Your mom time off starts now. Welcome back to the carpal podcast with Kelly and Liz. And Liz, sit back and relax oh because I've got some things I got to say

this is a special edition of the carpool podcast and this is specifically a special car buying

addition because you know it's been summer we've been doing side hustle summer we've been

traveling a little bit and we haven't been bringing you and maybe not the hard hidden content

car content that you're used to so So I wanted to have a dedicated episode. On this episode,

we also have an interview with my friend Zach, who really gives us a good temperature on all

things, tariffs, the car buying prices. We touch on leasing. We give some good use car buying tips.

It's just like a really meaty interview. So I thought I would just film an intro to that interview and just kind of touch base on all things carbine and kind of share some tips for if you're trying to buy a car this summer or this fall. I'm going to enjoy that. I'm going to be passenger princess on this one. Be passenger princess because and one of the reasons I decided to do this was I did a question box recently on my Instagram and I'm going to be passenger princess on this one. Be passenger princess because, and one of the reasons I decided to do this was I did a question box recently on my Instagram, and I'm going to be honest, I got to none of them because why did I think I, how are these influencers doing these, ask me anything on a road trip? It's like, my, and let me be clear, my kids had tablets too, and they were still a pain in the butt. Like,'t know i got nothing done but there was a lot of

questions around um car buying on a budget so i want to kind of flesh out some of these tips a little

bit more if you need a new car if you want a new car if you are car shopping and you are on a tight budget

i want to share a couple of tips with you okay the first The first tip, whenever someone tells me I need a new car, I say, why do you need a new car? I like to know the reason you are upgrading. And I think it's very important for you to really know that reason and to really put a dollar amount around that reason. Okay. If you need a new car because yours was totaled, you can't afford to fix it. It needs too much work. That's kind of a separate story. If you need a new car because yours was totaled, you can't afford to fix it. It needs too much work. Like, that's kind of a separate story. If you need a new car because your current car isn't working, I want you really to define what's not working about it and really determine if that is deal breakers. I am a car reviewer who is really trying to, like, de-influence people to buy a new car because I think too many people

buy a car willy-nilly. This is not, this is not an Amazon purchase. Okay. This is not to be an impulse

buy. This is a really important decision to think about. So first, I have a lot of family and I,

you know, I do these consultations. And the reason I do my consultations is simply to keep me in the

field. Like, I like to know what my audience is going through. It keeps me relevant and it keeps me like coming up with new content ideas. Because I wish I could help. I wish I could just like do a consultation with everybody, but I can't. So that's why like this is kind of a walking consultation, a working consultation.

So if I have a family tell me

we don't have enough room

for the car seats, not can't so that's why like this is kind of a walking consultation a working consultation so if i have a

family tell me we don't have enough room for the car seats not like three across but there's not enough

leg room the first thing i say is let's get different car seats there are a lot of car seats that there are a

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