Recommended Car Buying Books and Car Magazines
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Why You Need To Buy A Car Book
People expect everything on the internet to be free. We must distance ourselves from this "gimme" mentality, and realize you have to spend money to save money. Don't be so quick to take the cheap way out. When brides plan their wedding, they spend $100 on etiquette books, cake photo books, bridal magazines, wedding planners, etc., to ensure their money is well spent. A car can cost more than a wedding, so you should invest in materials to make sure that money is well spent also. If you buy a $15 book and read just one sentence warning of a scam, saving you $1500, that's the best investment in history. That's a 10,000% return on your money. Donald Trump can't even do that. Accurate up to date info always costs money. Fortune 500 companies pay marketing firms for the latest data. They never rely solely on the accuracy of free internet sites for our business decisions, and neither should you. One person asked me "Why should I have to pay $15 for a book?" Because that $15 can save you $1500. An investment with the cost of a lunch can pay for itself a hundred times over. You can also apply the enlightening education you receive from these books in other areas of your life.

Warning About Free Car Pricing Sites: You get what you pay for and free car pricing data is no exception. You'll see plenty of stale or incorrect free data. Edmunds had no pricing for my new Lexus SC300 months after it came out, and they didn't list the $2000 rebate we got on our Mazda Millenia. What if there was a factory to dealer incentive that you were unaware of because the free info was stale? This is where accurate pay sites come in. When you've narrowed your choices, pay a few dollars for reliable data updated bi-weekly. My favorite car pricing package is the Fighting Chance because their pricing info and list of current rebates is the best in the industry. The Fighting Chance is better than Edmunds. The Fighting Chance Package includes five key pieces: (1) complete retail (MSRP) and dealer invoice pricing for all your vehicle's trim levels and options; (2) the current bi-weekly CarDeals report showing all rebates and even secret factory-to-dealer incentives; (3) a proprietary Big Picture analysis, an overview of each make and model's most recent sales and inventory status, including factory hold-back and customer reports of actual transaction prices - updated monthly; (4) several articles to help you use the information most effectively (e.g., "Exactly How To Use This Information," "How To Avoid The Big Leasing Rip-Off," "How To Do All Your Negotiating Using The 'Fax Attack,' Without Going Anywhere Near A Car Store" (including sample faxes), and (5) telephone access to founder/author/radio commentator James Bragg and his assistant to answer any questions, and go through lease calculations with you. So use a tiny portion of the money you saved by landing here at CarBuyingTips.com to buy your Fighting Chance Package. I suggest you get a package for 2 or 3 different cars, as additional vehicles are only $15. Pay sites cost money because they buy their data from reputable industry sources.

Required Reading:
We weeded through the haystack of worthless car buying books to find only the very best, so you don't have to spend hours in bookstores not knowing if the book you are holding is worth anything at all. We got so sick of "superstore" bookstores claiming they give discounts, so we created this page. Superstore discounts are usually only hardcover books on the NY Times Bestseller list. These "loss leaders" get you in the door. Then, all the other books like cars, computer, business, etc., are full cover price.What a scam. Even at the "discount" bookstores near you, car books are NOT discounted, you pay full price. The books on this page are available at 20-40% off at amazon, the best bookstore on the web. We saved you time by providing the rapid order button for each book below.