The 10 Best Times to Buy a Car
It's winter, which means you're thinking about how much you hate your rear-wheel drive car from 1994 that takes half an hour to heat up to a point where the seats don't crunch with ice. Obviously you want to get the best deal you can, because who walks into a dealership and says "I'd like to pay full price and not a cent lower."
iSeeCars released their guide to buying a car, which included the 10 best time frames to shop. You may know about Toyotathon and Happy Honda Days, but it turns out there's a few other deals you can catch.
| Top 10 Best Times to Buy a Used Car | ||
| Rank | Time of Year | % More Deals than Average |
| 1 | Martin Luther King Jr. Day | 39.2% |
| 2 | January | 28.7% |
| 3 | February | 22.1% |
| 4 | New Year's Eve/New Year's Day | 20.5% |
| 5 | Christmas Eve | 18.1% |
| 6 | December | 13.0% |
| 7 | March | 12.6% |
| 8 | Veterans Day | 11.9% |
| 9 | November | 6.2% |
| 10 | Thanksgiving/Black Friday | 2.7% |
They also looked at when the deals were less than impressive, and found certain times of the year tend to trend towards having less deals than others.
| Top 10 Worst Times to Buy a Used Car | ||
| Rank | Time of Year | % Fewer Deals than Average |
| 1 | July 4th | 18.6% |
| 2 | June | 16.9% |
| 3 | July | 16.2% |
| 4 | Father’s Day | 15.5% |
| 5 | September | 15.0% |
| 6 | Memorial Day | 14.7% |
| 7 | August | 14.7% |
| 8 | May | 14.7% |
| 9 | Mother’s Day | 10.9% |
| 10 | October | 5.5% |
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