Kinda Like Tesla Does It Seems
As Jalopnik鈥檚 resident car buying expert and professional car shopper, I get emails. Lots of emails. I鈥檝e decided to pick a few questions and try to help out. This week we are discussing negotiating an order on a new Volvo V60, tuning a Honda Civic and importing a car from Canada for one minor option. First up: if you order a new car from the factory do you still have to pay full sticker price? So, Volvo sells the V60 now only through order online method it seems. Kinda like Tesla does it seems, but targeted at the V60 clients who prefer to pick their options. I鈥檓 wondering; can you still negotiate and get a deal/discounts with a dealer? It does seem like Volvo is taking a page from Tesla on their ordering process. We reported last year that for the first year at least, the new V60 wagon will be order-only, not stocked at dealers. The all-new 2019 Volvo V60 is a sleek-looking wagon that鈥檚 also pretty excellent to drive.
However, I have done a few factory-ordered Volvos for clients and I鈥檝e negotiated them the way I would negotiate a car on the lot. I contact the dealer tell them what the customer wants and have the dealer offer me a price. The dealer with the lowest price gets the order. Since the final purchase is done through the dealership anyway, regardless of this online portal, that is the approach I would recommend for ordering a V60. I will also make the point that depending on the market you may not score a discount on your factory order and this all depends on the supply and demand economics of that particular car. Sometimes in the case of hot cars like a Porsche 911 GT3 getting the slot for the order is the achievement鈥攏ot the price. I bought a 2018 Honda Civic Sport about five months ago and love it. After I purchased it, I was poking around online and came across a few different Honda Civic dedicated websites that discussed how easy it is to tune them, using either Hondata or Ktuner.
It seems both of these tuners work well and are easy to install, but I couldn鈥檛 really discern what possible (if any) negative impacts these electronic tuners would have on the engine. I guess the question is, are they safe, or should I expect the additional HP these tuners provide will prematurely wear out the engine and turbo? And I guess on a related note, if these tuners are safe, why in the world doesn鈥檛 Honda sell their cars already tuned this way? Honda engineers design that motor to ideally handle a certain amount of power to balance with reliability. The engine can 鈥渉andle鈥?more power but the components may wear faster. Or they may not. Honda could essentially sell the car with the tune already on it, but then a Civic Sport with more power would be competing against the more expensive Civic Si. The automaker wants to find that middle ground between performance, price, fuel economy and durability for their target customer.鈥?That all depends on the company. I鈥檓 sure you can find several forum threads with owners discussing their experience with various tunes from different companies. And finally, can you get a brand new car from Canada even if it is identical to the U.S. I鈥檓 interested in the new Veloster N but in the USA it won鈥檛 come with heated seats. However, in Canada it will come with heated seats. For a new car like this, is it easy to buy in Canada and import to the USA or would it be easier to buy the seats and install? Thanks for the info.S. But even if you could get your Veloster N from our friends in the north, the whole process would likely be difficult and expensive just for heated seats. Aftermarket heated seats are pretty easy and affordable, so ask around to your local shops to see what they can do.
Afterwards, KdF-Stadt will become a real hometown for workers of the VW Company. Pre-production samples of the Series 60 were collected at the plant from the beginning in the modification of cabriolet, sedan and an auto with a soft folding roof. After Germany suffered a defeat in the Second World War, the English took the plant in hand, KdF-Wagen was renamed in Beetle, and the Volkswagen logo was inverted. Further, they were looking for someone who would take over the company鈥檚 management: First, the hands were directed to Ford, then to the French government, English car manufacturers and lastly to Fiat. Everyone refused because they believed the exterior of Beetle was terrible and would not provide money for VW but will spend it. The British had to give back control over a company to the German government. Later, more than 21 million 芦Beetles禄 were sold, which made Beetle one of the most successful cars and vehicles being sold in the history of the automobile industry.
In the middle of the 50s, the assembly of an elegant coupe and a cabriolet based on the model VW 1200 started. They were called Karmann-Ghia (the Company Ghia designed the model鈥檚 bodywork, and the firm Karmann made the assembly). In that time, the cars of the German manufacturer were already sold in 150 countries of the world. Branches of VW were opened in many of them. In 1961, such models as Type 3 and VW 1500 fit with the rear drive with an engine of increased volume appeared. The new models with bodyworks of a coupe and a cabriolet began to be sold since 1963. And in total from 1961 until 1973, the production of Karmann-Ghia was 3 million cars. In 1982, the VW Jetta which represented an increased modification of VW Rabbit (1975 is the beginning of its production) in the 芦sedan禄 bodywork was put into production simultaneously with a model of Cabrio.
