AutoExpert Home Page Two.0

I save Australians over $100,000 on fresh cars every month. You can go after my plain roadmap to save $1000s and hit car dealers

Can’t determine which fresh car to buy? Here are my top twenty vehicles

Best value for money, high standard safety levels, feature-rich, reliable, and backed by decent customer support levels

Popular reports

How I save you thousands

Because I’m in a commercial partnership with one of Australia’s largest fleet management operators, I can produce significant savings on fresh cars to you. I’ll help you choose the right fresh can while my fleet management procurement team supplies the discount. Day to day, they manage corporate fleets. In other words, they buy, sell and finance thousands of cars every year – for big companies and government agencies. This gives them tremendous buying power. And if you contact me >> I leverage that buying power for you. You don’t have to go face-to-face with a car salesman, either – so you won’t get ripped off.

CONFUSED?

Buying a fresh car is a confronting, tense activity. Slew of people suggest their advice – and much of that is uninformed. The key is to cut through the overcharge of noise and get down to a rational short-list of leading contenders. Evaluate those – and get the best car for you, at the right price.

Still confronted? Relieve – I’ve made it effortless.

How to choose the right fresh car

This is advice for mainstream car buyers. If you’re a car enthusiast, a car nut, then stir along: nothing for you to read here. If you love your Jeeps, your Alfa Romeos, your Audis, your Volkswagen Golf GTIs … I can’t help you. (And, to be fair, you very likely don’t need help – you know what you want.)

For everyone else, buying a car can be tremendously confusing.

The Australian car market is overcharged with choice: almost three hundred different cars from more than fifty brands – and they can all tell you why theirs is best. And they’re persuading. (It’s effortless to be wooing when you have a $30-million marketing budget.) Many consumers get fully confused and confronted by the breathtaking scope of choice, and everyone is clammering to shove it down your mouth.

Exceptionally enough, there are more than thirty Mazda3-sized cars you can buy, and more than thirty Hyundai Tucson-sized SUVs. Who has time to do the objective research on all of them?

QUICK QUIZ: These cars are all the same size. How many can you name?

If you can name them all, you very likely don’t need my help. (Answers here >>) If not, what you need is an treatment to carving up the market – eliminating vehicles on the basis of objective value and risk, comparative spectacle, likely customer support. Then you get to a brief list of vehicles that are objectively better than the competition, and you can choose inbetween them.

STEP one – ELIMINATE THE WORST COMPANIES

Ford and Holden are terrible at customer service, and have a good many lemons in the market right now, plus a track record of letting customers down, badly. Plus, the local factories are soon to close, the brands are declining in popularity, and that adds up to less future relevance and poor resale prospects. Holden is sourcing many products from one of the worst car factories in the world – the former Daewoo factory now called GM Korea to get some of the stench off it.

The Volkswagen Group (Volkswagen, Audi and Skoda, basically) has always had poor reliability and worse customer service – especially since the GFC. Add to that the terrible emissions cheating scandal, and the risk factors are entirely unacceptable.

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles – Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, Fiat and Alfa Romeo – is, according to the ACCC, the most complained-about car company in Australia (as a proportion of vehicles sold). Massive series of customer service failures, plus poor reliability, a major multi-million-dollar corporate malfeasance case before the courts and sales in the sewer. Doesn’t sound like a solid prospect to me.

Honda and Nissan – both truly are asleep at the wheel. They’ve been overtaken by Mazda and Toyota.

The puny players – Citroen, Volvo, Peugeot, MINI, Infiniti, Proton, Clever, Ssangyong, LDV, Haval, Chery, Excellent Wall: Some of these are either way to fresh, and/or too poor in quality to be worthy of your attention. Resale value is intensely questionable. And the established names – Citroen, Volvo, Peugeot and MINI – just don’t sell in sufficient volumes. That means inadequate competition among dealers, poor local support, low parts inventories and low levels of request when it comes time to sell or trade. And Infiniti might be what Lexus is, one day … but not in the foreseeable future.

STEP two – IDENTIFY THE TYPE OF VEHICLE

Do you need a car or an SUV? Five seats or seven? Hatchback or sedan? Do you want to go off-roading or do you need to tow a strong boat, caravan or trailer? Do you indeed need an SUV?

This might help: Check out my report on fitting you into the right sized vehicle.

If you need to fit two golf bags in the cargo space, or three child seats across the 2nd row, or make regular trips interstate, or to Bunnings, or park in taut inner-city catches sight of, it’s a good time to consider all that, as well. How do you need to use the vehicle, and what is it about that applied usage that affects the choices you make?

STEP three – DETERMINE YOUR SPENDING LIMIT

Everyone has a budget. You need to go into this with a spending limit in mind, because the car industry excels at extracting more money from consumers than they can truly afford. They do it every day.

STEP four – LIST THE FEATURES YOU Truly WANT

Five-star safety is non-negotiable. There’s no reason to accept four. You want to walk away unscathed and pack in an insurance claim form, as opposed to any other alternative screenplay. Five starlets tips that balance in your favour. And it doesn’t cost extra.

A reversing camera is an excellent idea. (Driveway injury is the 2nd most common cause of accidental death in children, after drowning in the backyard pool.)

Bluetooth for phone and music, GPS, perhaps Apple CarPlay or Android Auto. 12-volt outlets for recharging digital devices, cruise control, perhaps a proximity key (which just stays in your pocket or handbag – all good ideas.

Bear in mind that the entry-level variant (ie the cheapest one) in most model ranges is typically a nasty little stripped-out shitbox designed to appeal only to fleet buyers. It’s had everything that can be eliminated, liquidated, in order to slash the price. Most private buyers would do well to eliminate that one and take one step up in the range.

STEP five – SIDESTEP THE TRAPS

Most car buyers obsess over things like the styling and the test-drive practice, when in fact they very likely should spend more time thinking about the things that can indeed make a difference to the ownership practice and costs.

In addition to those, many fresh cars are still locked into six-monthly servicing intervals, whereas others (including Hyundai, Kia and Mazda) have upgraded to 12-monthly servicing. That’s a day less logistical hassle every year, getting the bus to work and back, or whatever, as well as typically around half the service cost. Warranties vary widely, too – Kia offers seven years, while Hyundai and Mitsubishi have five years, and Lexus with four years hits Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz. Most other carmakers are still stuck at three years.

STEP six – EVALUATE THE BENCHMARKS

I’ll steer you in the direction of the benchmark vehicles of the type you’re considering. Take them for a spin. If you need some practical advice about getting the most value out of your test-driving practice. How to Test Drive Like a Pro >>

After that, get back to me. We can refine your selection. When you know what you want, I’ll help you save thousands on any fresh car.

Auto Pro by John Cadogan – save thousands on your next fresh car!

AutoExpert Home Page Two.0

I save Australians over $100,000 on fresh cars every month. You can go after my ordinary roadmap to save $1000s and strike car dealers

Can’t determine which fresh car to buy? Here are my top twenty vehicles

Best value for money, high standard safety levels, feature-rich, reliable, and backed by decent customer support levels

Popular reports

How I save you thousands

Because I’m in a commercial partnership with one of Australia’s largest fleet management operators, I can supply significant savings on fresh cars to you. I’ll help you choose the right fresh can while my fleet management procurement team supplies the discount. Day to day, they manage corporate fleets. In other words, they buy, sell and finance thousands of cars every year – for big companies and government agencies. This gives them tremendous buying power. And if you contact me >> I leverage that buying power for you. You don’t have to go face-to-face with a car salesman, either – so you won’t get ripped off.

CONFUSED?

Still confronted? Ease off – I’ve made it effortless.

How to choose the right fresh car

This is advice for mainstream car buyers. If you’re a car enthusiast, a car nut, then budge along: nothing for you to read here. If you love your Jeeps, your Alfa Romeos, your Audis, your Volkswagen Golf GTIs … I can’t help you. (And, to be fair, you most likely don’t need help – you know what you want.)

For everyone else, buying a car can be tremendously confusing.

The Australian car market is overcharged with choice: almost three hundred different cars from more than fifty brands – and they can all tell you why theirs is best. And they’re coaxing. (It’s effortless to be coaxing when you have a $30-million marketing budget.) Many consumers get entirely confused and confronted by the breathtaking scope of choice, and everyone is clammering to shove it down your mouth.

Exceptionally enough, there are more than thirty Mazda3-sized cars you can buy, and more than thirty Hyundai Tucson-sized SUVs. Who has time to do the objective research on all of them?

QUICK QUIZ: These cars are all the same size. How many can you name?

If you can name them all, you most likely don’t need my help. (Answers here >>) If not, what you need is an treatment to carving up the market – eliminating vehicles on the basis of objective value and risk, comparative spectacle, likely customer support. Then you get to a brief list of vehicles that are objectively better than the competition, and you can choose inbetween them.

STEP one – ELIMINATE THE WORST COMPANIES

Ford and Holden are terrible at customer service, and have a excellent many lemons in the market right now, plus a track record of letting customers down, badly. Plus, the local factories are soon to close, the brands are declining in popularity, and that adds up to less future relevance and poor resale prospects. Holden is sourcing many products from one of the worst car factories in the world – the former Daewoo factory now called GM Korea to get some of the stench off it.

Honda and Nissan – both indeed are asleep at the wheel. They’ve been overtaken by Mazda and Toyota.

The petite players – Citroen, Volvo, Peugeot, MINI, Infiniti, Proton, Wise, Ssangyong, LDV, Haval, Chery, Good Wall: Some of these are either way to fresh, and/or too poor in quality to be worthy of your attention. Resale value is intensely questionable. And the established names – Citroen, Volvo, Peugeot and MINI – just don’t sell in sufficient volumes. That means inadequate competition among dealers, poor local support, low parts inventories and low levels of request when it comes time to sell or trade. And Infiniti might be what Lexus is, one day … but not in the foreseeable future.

STEP two – IDENTIFY THE TYPE OF VEHICLE

Do you need a car or an SUV? Five seats or seven? Hatchback or sedan? Do you want to go off-roading or do you need to tow a strenuous boat, caravan or trailer? Do you truly need an SUV?

This might help: Check out my report on fitting you into the right sized vehicle.

STEP three – DETERMINE YOUR SPENDING LIMIT

Everyone has a budget. You need to go into this with a spending limit in mind, because the car industry excels at extracting more money from consumers than they can indeed afford. They do it every day.

STEP four – LIST THE FEATURES YOU Indeed WANT

Five-star safety is non-negotiable. There’s no reason to accept four. You want to walk away unscathed and pack in an insurance claim form, as opposed to any other alternative script. Five starlets tips that balance in your favour. And it doesn’t cost extra.

A reversing camera is an excellent idea. (Driveway injury is the 2nd most common cause of accidental death in children, after drowning in the backyard pool.)

Bear in mind that the entry-level variant (ie the cheapest one) in most model ranges is typically a nasty little stripped-out shitbox designed to appeal only to fleet buyers. It’s had everything that can be eliminated, eliminated, in order to slash the price. Most private buyers would do well to eliminate that one and take one step up in the range.

STEP five – SIDESTEP THE TRAPS

In addition to those, many fresh cars are still locked into six-monthly servicing intervals, whereas others (including Hyundai, Kia and Mazda) have upgraded to 12-monthly servicing. That’s a day less logistical hassle every year, getting the bus to work and back, or whatever, as well as typically around half the service cost. Warranties vary widely, too – Kia offers seven years, while Hyundai and Mitsubishi have five years, and Lexus with four years hammers Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz. Most other carmakers are still stuck at three years.

STEP six – EVALUATE THE BENCHMARKS

After that, get back to me. We can refine your selection. When you know what you want, I’ll help you save thousands on any fresh car.

Auto Pro by John Cadogan – save thousands on your next fresh car!

AutoExpert Home Page Two.0

I save Australians over $100,000 on fresh cars every month. You can go after my elementary roadmap to save $1000s and hammer car dealers

Can’t determine which fresh car to buy? Here are my top twenty vehicles

Best value for money, high standard safety levels, feature-rich, reliable, and backed by decent customer support levels

Popular reports

How I save you thousands

CONFUSED?

Still confronted? Loosen – I’ve made it effortless.

How to choose the right fresh car

For everyone else, buying a car can be tremendously confusing.

The Australian car market is overcharged with choice: almost three hundred different cars from more than fifty brands – and they can all tell you why theirs is best. And they’re wooing. (It’s effortless to be persuading when you have a $30-million marketing budget.) Many consumers get downright confused and confronted by the breathtaking scope of choice, and everyone is clammering to shove it down your mouth.

Amazingly enough, there are more than thirty Mazda3-sized cars you can buy, and more than thirty Hyundai Tucson-sized SUVs. Who has time to do the objective research on all of them?

QUICK QUIZ: These cars are all the same size. How many can you name?

STEP one – ELIMINATE THE WORST COMPANIES

Ford and Holden are terrible at customer service, and have a fine many lemons in the market right now, plus a track record of letting customers down, badly. Plus, the local factories are soon to close, the brands are declining in popularity, and that adds up to less future relevance and poor resale prospects. Holden is sourcing many products from one of the worst car factories in the world – the former Daewoo factory now called GM Korea to get some of the stench off it.

Honda and Nissan – both truly are asleep at the wheel. They’ve been overtaken by Mazda and Toyota.

The petite players – Citroen, Volvo, Peugeot, MINI, Infiniti, Proton, Brainy, Ssangyong, LDV, Haval, Chery, Fine Wall: Some of these are either way to fresh, and/or too poor in quality to be worthy of your attention. Resale value is intensely questionable. And the established names – Citroen, Volvo, Peugeot and MINI – just don’t sell in sufficient volumes. That means inadequate competition among dealers, poor local support, low parts inventories and low levels of request when it comes time to sell or trade. And Infiniti might be what Lexus is, one day … but not in the foreseeable future.

STEP two – IDENTIFY THE TYPE OF VEHICLE

Do you need a car or an SUV? Five seats or seven? Hatchback or sedan? Do you want to go off-roading or do you need to tow a strenuous boat, caravan or trailer? Do you indeed need an SUV?

This might help: Check out my report on fitting you into the right sized vehicle.

STEP three – DETERMINE YOUR SPENDING LIMIT

STEP four – LIST THE FEATURES YOU Truly WANT

A reversing camera is an excellent idea. (Driveway injury is the 2nd most common cause of accidental death in children, after drowning in the backyard pool.)

Bear in mind that the entry-level variant (ie the cheapest one) in most model ranges is typically a nasty little stripped-out shitbox designed to appeal only to fleet buyers. It’s had everything that can be eliminated, eliminated, in order to slash the price. Most private buyers would do well to eliminate that one and take one step up in the range.

STEP five – SIDESTEP THE TRAPS

Most car buyers obsess over things like the styling and the test-drive practice, when in fact they most likely should spend more time thinking about the things that can indeed make a difference to the ownership practice and costs.

STEP six – EVALUATE THE BENCHMARKS

After that, get back to me. We can refine your selection. When you know what you want, I’ll help you save thousands on any fresh car.

Auto Pro by John Cadogan – save thousands on your next fresh car!

AutoExpert Home Page Two.0

I save Australians over $100,000 on fresh cars every month. You can go after my ordinary roadmap to save $1000s and strike car dealers

Can’t determine which fresh car to buy? Here are my top twenty vehicles

Best value for money, high standard safety levels, feature-rich, reliable, and backed by decent customer support levels

Popular reports

How I save you thousands

CONFUSED?

Still confronted? Ease off – I’ve made it effortless.

How to choose the right fresh car

This is advice for mainstream car buyers. If you’re a car enthusiast, a car nut, then stir along: nothing for you to read here. If you love your Jeeps, your Alfa Romeos, your Audis, your Volkswagen Golf GTIs … I can’t help you. (And, to be fair, you most likely don’t need help – you know what you want.)

For everyone else, buying a car can be tremendously confusing.

The Australian car market is overcharged with choice: almost three hundred different cars from more than fifty brands – and they can all tell you why theirs is best. And they’re coaxing. (It’s effortless to be persuading when you have a $30-million marketing budget.) Many consumers get downright confused and confronted by the breathtaking scope of choice, and everyone is clammering to shove it down your mouth.

Exceptionally enough, there are more than thirty Mazda3-sized cars you can buy, and more than thirty Hyundai Tucson-sized SUVs. Who has time to do the objective research on all of them?

QUICK QUIZ: These cars are all the same size. How many can you name?

STEP one – ELIMINATE THE WORST COMPANIES

Honda and Nissan – both truly are asleep at the wheel. They’ve been overtaken by Mazda and Toyota.

The puny players – Citroen, Volvo, Peugeot, MINI, Infiniti, Proton, Clever, Ssangyong, LDV, Haval, Chery, Superb Wall: Some of these are either way to fresh, and/or too poor in quality to be worthy of your attention. Resale value is intensely questionable. And the established names – Citroen, Volvo, Peugeot and MINI – just don’t sell in sufficient volumes. That means inadequate competition among dealers, poor local support, low parts inventories and low levels of request when it comes time to sell or trade. And Infiniti might be what Lexus is, one day … but not in the foreseeable future.

STEP two – IDENTIFY THE TYPE OF VEHICLE

Do you need a car or an SUV? Five seats or seven? Hatchback or sedan? Do you want to go off-roading or do you need to tow a powerful boat, caravan or trailer? Do you truly need an SUV?

This might help: Check out my report on fitting you into the right sized vehicle.

STEP three – DETERMINE YOUR SPENDING LIMIT

STEP four – LIST THE FEATURES YOU Truly WANT

A reversing camera is an excellent idea. (Driveway injury is the 2nd most common cause of accidental death in children, after drowning in the backyard pool.)

STEP five – SIDESTEP THE TRAPS

In addition to those, many fresh cars are still locked into six-monthly servicing intervals, whereas others (including Hyundai, Kia and Mazda) have upgraded to 12-monthly servicing. That’s a day less logistical hassle every year, getting the bus to work and back, or whatever, as well as typically around half the service cost. Warranties vary widely, too – Kia offers seven years, while Hyundai and Mitsubishi have five years, and Lexus with four years strikes Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz. Most other carmakers are still stuck at three years.

STEP six – EVALUATE THE BENCHMARKS

After that, get back to me. We can refine your selection. When you know what you want, I’ll help you save thousands on any fresh car.

Auto Experienced by John Cadogan – save thousands on your next fresh car!

AutoExpert Home Page Two.0

I save Australians over $100,000 on fresh cars every month. You can go after my plain roadmap to save $1000s and strike car dealers

Can’t determine which fresh car to buy? Here are my top twenty vehicles

Best value for money, high standard safety levels, feature-rich, reliable, and backed by decent customer support levels

Popular reports

How I save you thousands

Because I’m in a commercial partnership with one of Australia’s largest fleet management operators, I can supply significant savings on fresh cars to you. I’ll help you choose the right fresh can while my fleet management procurement team produces the discount. Day to day, they manage corporate fleets. In other words, they buy, sell and finance thousands of cars every year – for big companies and government agencies. This gives them tremendous buying power. And if you contact me >> I leverage that buying power for you. You don’t have to go face-to-face with a car salesman, either – so you won’t get ripped off.

CONFUSED?

Buying a fresh car is a confronting, stressfull activity. Slew of people suggest their advice – and much of that is uninformed. The key is to cut through the overcharge of noise and get down to a rational short-list of leading contenders. Evaluate those – and get the best car for you, at the right price.

Still confronted? Unwind – I’ve made it effortless.

How to choose the right fresh car

For everyone else, buying a car can be tremendously confusing.

The Australian car market is overcharged with choice: almost three hundred different cars from more than fifty brands – and they can all tell you why theirs is best. And they’re wooing. (It’s effortless to be persuading when you have a $30-million marketing budget.) Many consumers get totally confused and confronted by the breathtaking scope of choice, and everyone is clammering to shove it down your mouth.

Exceptionally enough, there are more than thirty Mazda3-sized cars you can buy, and more than thirty Hyundai Tucson-sized SUVs. Who has time to do the objective research on all of them?

QUICK QUIZ: These cars are all the same size. How many can you name?

STEP one – ELIMINATE THE WORST COMPANIES

Honda and Nissan – both indeed are asleep at the wheel. They’ve been overtaken by Mazda and Toyota.

The petite players – Citroen, Volvo, Peugeot, MINI, Infiniti, Proton, Wise, Ssangyong, LDV, Haval, Chery, Excellent Wall: Some of these are either way to fresh, and/or too poor in quality to be worthy of your attention. Resale value is intensely questionable. And the established names – Citroen, Volvo, Peugeot and MINI – just don’t sell in sufficient volumes. That means inadequate competition among dealers, poor local support, low parts inventories and low levels of request when it comes time to sell or trade. And Infiniti might be what Lexus is, one day … but not in the foreseeable future.

STEP two – IDENTIFY THE TYPE OF VEHICLE

Do you need a car or an SUV? Five seats or seven? Hatchback or sedan? Do you want to go off-roading or do you need to tow a mighty boat, caravan or trailer? Do you truly need an SUV?

This might help: Check out my report on fitting you into the right sized vehicle.

STEP three – DETERMINE YOUR SPENDING LIMIT

STEP four – LIST THE FEATURES YOU Truly WANT

A reversing camera is an excellent idea. (Driveway injury is the 2nd most common cause of accidental death in children, after drowning in the backyard pool.)

STEP five – SIDESTEP THE TRAPS

Most car buyers obsess over things like the styling and the test-drive practice, when in fact they very likely should spend more time thinking about the things that can truly make a difference to the ownership practice and costs.

In addition to those, many fresh cars are still locked into six-monthly servicing intervals, whereas others (including Hyundai, Kia and Mazda) have upgraded to 12-monthly servicing. That’s a day less logistical hassle every year, getting the bus to work and back, or whatever, as well as typically around half the service cost. Warranties vary widely, too – Kia offers seven years, while Hyundai and Mitsubishi have five years, and Lexus with four years strikes Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz. Most other carmakers are still stuck at three years.

STEP six – EVALUATE THE BENCHMARKS

After that, get back to me. We can refine your selection. When you know what you want, I’ll help you save thousands on any fresh car.

Auto Experienced by John Cadogan – save thousands on your next fresh car!

AutoExpert Home Page Two.0

I save Australians over $100,000 on fresh cars every month. You can go after my elementary roadmap to save $1000s and hammer car dealers

Can’t determine which fresh car to buy? Here are my top twenty vehicles

Best value for money, high standard safety levels, feature-rich, reliable, and backed by decent customer support levels

Popular reports

How I save you thousands

CONFUSED?

Buying a fresh car is a confronting, strained activity. Slew of people suggest their advice – and much of that is uninformed. The key is to cut through the overcharge of noise and get down to a rational short-list of leading contenders. Evaluate those – and get the best car for you, at the right price.

Still confronted? Ease off – I’ve made it effortless.

How to choose the right fresh car

This is advice for mainstream car buyers. If you’re a car enthusiast, a car nut, then budge along: nothing for you to read here. If you love your Jeeps, your Alfa Romeos, your Audis, your Volkswagen Golf GTIs … I can’t help you. (And, to be fair, you very likely don’t need help – you know what you want.)

For everyone else, buying a car can be tremendously confusing.

The Australian car market is overcharged with choice: almost three hundred different cars from more than fifty brands – and they can all tell you why theirs is best. And they’re coaxing. (It’s effortless to be wooing when you have a $30-million marketing budget.) Many consumers get fully confused and confronted by the breathtaking scope of choice, and everyone is clammering to shove it down your mouth.

Exceptionally enough, there are more than thirty Mazda3-sized cars you can buy, and more than thirty Hyundai Tucson-sized SUVs. Who has time to do the objective research on all of them?

QUICK QUIZ: These cars are all the same size. How many can you name?

STEP one – ELIMINATE THE WORST COMPANIES

Ford and Holden are terrible at customer service, and have a superb many lemons in the market right now, plus a track record of letting customers down, badly. Plus, the local factories are soon to close, the brands are declining in popularity, and that adds up to less future relevance and poor resale prospects. Holden is sourcing many products from one of the worst car factories in the world – the former Daewoo factory now called GM Korea to get some of the stench off it.

Honda and Nissan – both truly are asleep at the wheel. They’ve been overtaken by Mazda and Toyota.

STEP two – IDENTIFY THE TYPE OF VEHICLE

Do you need a car or an SUV? Five seats or seven? Hatchback or sedan? Do you want to go off-roading or do you need to tow a mighty boat, caravan or trailer? Do you indeed need an SUV?

This might help: Check out my report on fitting you into the right sized vehicle.

STEP three – DETERMINE YOUR SPENDING LIMIT

STEP four – LIST THE FEATURES YOU Truly WANT

A reversing camera is an excellent idea. (Driveway injury is the 2nd most common cause of accidental death in children, after drowning in the backyard pool.)

Bear in mind that the entry-level variant (ie the cheapest one) in most model ranges is typically a nasty little stripped-out shitbox designed to appeal only to fleet buyers. It’s had everything that can be liquidated, liquidated, in order to slash the price. Most private buyers would do well to eliminate that one and take one step up in the range.

STEP five – SIDESTEP THE TRAPS

In addition to those, many fresh cars are still locked into six-monthly servicing intervals, whereas others (including Hyundai, Kia and Mazda) have upgraded to 12-monthly servicing. That’s a day less logistical hassle every year, getting the bus to work and back, or whatever, as well as typically around half the service cost. Warranties vary widely, too – Kia offers seven years, while Hyundai and Mitsubishi have five years, and Lexus with four years strikes Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz. Most other carmakers are still stuck at three years.

STEP six – EVALUATE THE BENCHMARKS

After that, get back to me. We can refine your selection. When you know what you want, I’ll help you save thousands on any fresh car.

Auto Accomplished by John Cadogan – save thousands on your next fresh car!

AutoExpert Home Page Two.0

I save Australians over $100,000 on fresh cars every month. You can go after my elementary roadmap to save $1000s and strike car dealers

Can’t determine which fresh car to buy? Here are my top twenty vehicles

Best value for money, high standard safety levels, feature-rich, reliable, and backed by decent customer support levels

Popular reports

How I save you thousands

Because I’m in a commercial partnership with one of Australia’s largest fleet management operators, I can supply significant savings on fresh cars to you. I’ll help you choose the right fresh can while my fleet management procurement team produces the discount. Day to day, they manage corporate fleets. In other words, they buy, sell and finance thousands of cars every year – for big companies and government agencies. This gives them tremendous buying power. And if you contact me >> I leverage that buying power for you. You don’t have to go face-to-face with a car salesman, either – so you won’t get ripped off.

CONFUSED?

Still confronted? Unwind – I’ve made it effortless.

How to choose the right fresh car

This is advice for mainstream car buyers. If you’re a car enthusiast, a car nut, then budge along: nothing for you to read here. If you love your Jeeps, your Alfa Romeos, your Audis, your Volkswagen Golf GTIs … I can’t help you. (And, to be fair, you very likely don’t need help – you know what you want.)

For everyone else, buying a car can be tremendously confusing.

The Australian car market is overcharged with choice: almost three hundred different cars from more than fifty brands – and they can all tell you why theirs is best. And they’re persuading. (It’s effortless to be persuading when you have a $30-million marketing budget.) Many consumers get fully confused and confronted by the breathtaking scope of choice, and everyone is clammering to shove it down your mouth.

Exceptionally enough, there are more than thirty Mazda3-sized cars you can buy, and more than thirty Hyundai Tucson-sized SUVs. Who has time to do the objective research on all of them?

QUICK QUIZ: These cars are all the same size. How many can you name?

STEP one – ELIMINATE THE WORST COMPANIES

Honda and Nissan – both truly are asleep at the wheel. They’ve been overtaken by Mazda and Toyota.

The petite players – Citroen, Volvo, Peugeot, MINI, Infiniti, Proton, Brainy, Ssangyong, LDV, Haval, Chery, Superb Wall: Some of these are either way to fresh, and/or too poor in quality to be worthy of your attention. Resale value is intensely questionable. And the established names – Citroen, Volvo, Peugeot and MINI – just don’t sell in sufficient volumes. That means inadequate competition among dealers, poor local support, low parts inventories and low levels of request when it comes time to sell or trade. And Infiniti might be what Lexus is, one day … but not in the foreseeable future.

STEP two – IDENTIFY THE TYPE OF VEHICLE

Do you need a car or an SUV? Five seats or seven? Hatchback or sedan? Do you want to go off-roading or do you need to tow a powerful boat, caravan or trailer? Do you indeed need an SUV?

This might help: Check out my report on fitting you into the right sized vehicle.

STEP three – DETERMINE YOUR SPENDING LIMIT

STEP four – LIST THE FEATURES YOU Truly WANT

A reversing camera is an excellent idea. (Driveway injury is the 2nd most common cause of accidental death in children, after drowning in the backyard pool.)

Bear in mind that the entry-level variant (ie the cheapest one) in most model ranges is typically a nasty little stripped-out shitbox designed to appeal only to fleet buyers. It’s had everything that can be liquidated, eliminated, in order to slash the price. Most private buyers would do well to eliminate that one and take one step up in the range.

STEP five – SIDESTEP THE TRAPS

In addition to those, many fresh cars are still locked into six-monthly servicing intervals, whereas others (including Hyundai, Kia and Mazda) have upgraded to 12-monthly servicing. That’s a day less logistical hassle every year, getting the bus to work and back, or whatever, as well as typically around half the service cost. Warranties vary widely, too – Kia offers seven years, while Hyundai and Mitsubishi have five years, and Lexus with four years hammers Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz. Most other carmakers are still stuck at three years.

STEP six – EVALUATE THE BENCHMARKS

After that, get back to me. We can refine your selection. When you know what you want, I’ll help you save thousands on any fresh car.