The Complete Idiot's Guide to Buying or Leasing a Car (Complete Idiot's Guides) (Paperback)

~ Jack Meard (Author) "In a nation that can't agree on much of anything, one thing we all seem to agree on is that we love cars..." (more)
Key Phrases: many car buyers, annualized percentage rate, dealer invoice price, Bet You Didn't Know, Let's Talk, Consumer Reports (more...)

Product Details

• Paperback: 1 pages
• Publisher: Alpha (1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0028612744
• ISBN-13: 978-0028612744
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,371,483 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Everything In This Book Happened to Me!, May 12, 2000

By A Customer

I was a skeptic. How could everything you are warned about in this book really happen? I am sorry to say it's all true. In fact, I could write my own book about my car-buying experiences! As a single woman shopping alone for a new car, I thought this book was a reasonable investment. But it was so much more. Thanks to this book, I was prepared. I was informed. And I saved both my sanity and thousands in the end. There was a happy ending to my story thanks in large part to what I learned on those pages. Read this book if you are even considering buying a car. It's worth every single penny. I even made my fiance read it a year later -- before he bought his new car!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars for idiots only, February 15, 2002

By A Customer

This is a good book if you have an extremely low IQ and need chapters and chapters on how to select which car model you want to buy. If that is your biggest problem when it comes to buying a car, then you are either very rich or very stupid. There are much better books around on how to deal with dealers, getting the most for your used car, not getting screwed on a lease, etc. The only adivce this book had on bargaining with dealers was "if you're not comfortabe with what's going on in the dealership, walk out." Sorry, but there's a lot more to negotiating than that.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Waste of Time & Money, June 1, 1999

By A Customer

I found this book to be over simplistic and patronizing as well as a complete waste of effort and time when compared to other books in this category. Would not reccommend.