Chrysler touts three-year, $2.99 gasoline deal to win buyers

The presidential candidates may be touting a gas tax holiday, but Chrysler is offering new car buyers a card that locks in the price of gasoline and diesel at $2.99 a gallon for three years.

[WeTheSheeple]

If Chrysler wants to sell more vehicles, they should try making something that gets more than 25 mpg! I can't believe all the "big 3" are getting spanked in sales by the smaller more fuel efficient Japanese brands AGAIN!!!!!! Did they learn nothing from the 70's??? How stupid are they??

I truly hope Ford, GM, & Chrysler all go bankrupt. They continued to build bigger & bigger trucks & suvs that got 8 mpg (downhill, with the wind) when gas prices were climbing from < $2 to $3.50.

I think they really believe gas prices are going to go down to < $2 again- idiots.

[DapperDave]

Doesn't really much matter if gasoline is free when the car your driving is broken down on the side of the road with mechanical or electrical problems - which is fairly common with Chrysler products.

I've had good luck with Ford products. I had a 1997 Mercury Sable that never gave me a single problem. I now have a 2006 Mercury Montego. However, the rear disc rotors had to be replaced at 25,000 miles. Other than that, so far so good.

The Montego gets 20+ mpg in the city and 28+ mpg on the highway - almost exactly what the EPA sticker on the car stated when I purchased it.

That being said, if had it to do all over again I'd opt for the smaller Mercury Milan.

[TOM REGAN]

...do the math...your better off in the long run to pay a little more for a fuel efficient brand and not pay interest on less efficient auto for three years...

[Whiskey Charlie]

While still a promotion, at least it does allow new vehicle purchasers something more to consider?

A new Prius (2008) at $25,000 -$28,000 USD will be a 6.5%, 60 month debt with a monthly payment of $437 ($5587 USD down/trade) using a Toyota website calculator within a local Wisconsin dealer's website.

I can remember 1973 while working at a Ford dealership ... Customers with recently purchased 1973 Ford Country Squires trying to "trade down" to Mavericks and Pintos.

T. Regan has a valid point ... trade-offs can be a beotch!

Caveat Emptor ...

[Whiskey Charlie]

>The company announced the "Let's Refuel America" promotion would provide most U.S. Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge buyers with enough gas purchases at the $2.99 price to cover 12,000 miles of driving a year, based on the car's federal miles-per-gallon rating.<

http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read/146...

The rest of the story?

[Tom Loy]

Chrysler is managed by mental midgets. Rather than bring some of their diesel powered models from europe, they came with this brilliant idea. And the $2.99 a gallon isn't worth beans if chrysler goes belly up.

[Cato]

I paid off my car loan back in 2001.
I'd rather spend $6 per gallon on gas than take on another $400 per month auto payment.

[Love Your Country]

Cato wrote:

I paid off my car loan back in 2001.
I'd rather spend $6 per gallon on gas than take on another $400 per month auto payment.

I second that one! 400 is at the low end of car payments, and that is for 72 months! Plus more insurance coverage is required and you still have to gas and maintain the new one.

[Cato]

Love Your Country wrote:

<quoted text>I second that one! 400 is at the low end of car payments, and that is for 72 months! Plus more insurance coverage is required and you still have to gas and maintain the new one.

Yep, I tossed my full coverage insurance the same week I paid off my car note. The last time I bothered looking at the odometer, it was 140,000 miles, and my gaskets have been dripping oil for the past 70,000 miles (since 2004). I just top off the oil every couple of weeks; there's no sense spending $2,000 to fix a $2 problem. I guess it's only a matter of time before it konks out in the middle of I-285 rush hour traffic.
The funny thing is that I'm clearing six figures, and I could afford two new cars, if that's what I wanted.

[Tom Loy]

Cato wrote:

<quoted text>
Yep, I tossed my full coverage insurance the same week I paid off my car note. The last time I bothered looking at the odometer, it was 140,000 miles, and my gaskets have been dripping oil for the past 70,000 miles (since 2004). I just top off the oil every couple of weeks; there's no sense spending $2,000 to fix a $2 problem. I guess it's only a matter of time before it konks out in the middle of I-285 rush hour traffic.
The funny thing is that I'm clearing six figures, and I could afford two new cars, if that's what I wanted.

Then buy a prius. Save some gasoline for someone else.

[Misty]

Cato wrote:

<quoted text>
my gaskets have been dripping oil for the past 70,000 miles (since 2004). I just top off the oil every couple of weeks; there's no sense spending $2,000 to fix a $2 problem.

Cato, your oil drippings wash off the road into the river and streams. A dripping car is a polluting car. It is far more than a $2 problem to the environment. Please at least fix the oil leak, especially since you are fortunate enough to have the funds to do it. It sounds like you have a great thing going otherwise.

[WeTheSheeple]

I wonder if anyone from Chrysler is listening? I have an '02 Ford Focus (that I bought used)- the only decent car Ford ever made. I average only 32 mpg- that's pathetic for such a small car. No reason that type car doesn't get at least 40-50 mpg.

Never ever buy a NEW vehicle; too much depreciation those first two years.

I emailed Chrylser directly with my opinion of their latest sales gimmick. I encourage everyone else to do so as well.

[Pat Kittle]

WeTheSheeple wrote:

If Chrysler wants to sell more vehicles, they should try making something that gets more than 25 mpg! I can't believe all the "big 3" are getting spanked in sales by the smaller more fuel efficient Japanese brands AGAIN!!!!!! Did they learn nothing from the 70's??? How stupid are they??
I truly hope Ford, GM, & Chrysler all go bankrupt. They continued to build bigger & bigger trucks & suvs that got 8 mpg (downhill, with the wind) when gas prices were climbing from < $2 to $3.50.
I think they really believe gas prices are going to go down to < $2 again- idiots.

Not only are the Japanese brands more fuel efficient, they are far better made!

Over the 40 years I've been driving, my Toyotas were everything Detroit's "Big 3" should have been and weren't (aren't).

Pretty sad, when you think Detroit had a big head start on the Japanese.

Not only that, but last time I checked, "Big 3" CEO's make 10 times what their Japanese counterparts make -- for building vehicles that are 10 times lousier than the Japanese.

Japanese IQ's are among the hightest in the world -- increasingly, I believe that has something to do with it.

[Cato]

Misty wrote:

<quoted text>
Cato, your oil drippings wash off the road into the river and streams. A dripping car is a polluting car. It is far more than a $2 problem to the environment. Please at least fix the oil leak, especially since you are fortunate enough to have the funds to do it. It sounds like you have a great thing going otherwise.

Mam, don't try to impose your religious views on me.

[Lance Winslow]

Misty wrote:

<quoted text>
Cato, your oil drippings wash off the road into the river and streams. A dripping car is a polluting car. It is far more than a $2 problem to the environment. Please at least fix the oil leak, especially since you are fortunate enough to have the funds to do it. It sounds like you have a great thing going otherwise.

Contrast Cato's oil drip with a couple hundred coal fired power plants.

[Cannon Fodder]

Pat Kittle wrote:

<quoted text>
Not only are the Japanese brands more fuel efficient, they are far better made!
Over the 40 years I've been driving, my Toyotas were everything Detroit's "Big 3" should have been and weren't (aren't).
Pretty sad, when you think Detroit had a big head start on the Japanese.
Not only that, but last time I checked, "Big 3" CEO's make 10 times what their Japanese counterparts make -- for building vehicles that are 10 times lousier than the Japanese.
Japanese IQ's are among the hightest in the world -- increasingly, I believe that has something to do with it.

You are stuck in 1979. Ford cars are built as well as Toyota's today. In a recent JD Powers ranking, Buick TIED with Lexus for the #1 most dependable automobile. Outstanding achievement since Buicks cost half as much as many Lexus'. I drive a '06 Dodge Charger,109,000 miles as a sales rep and it has never seen a repair shop, I just change the oil myself every 9,000 miles. You Jap car buyers had good reason to abanondoned American cars in 1979-1995, now you are simply hurting your country by your never ending cheer leading for foreign car manufactures.

[Lance Winslow]

Cannon Fodder wrote:

<quoted text> You are stuck in 1979. Ford cars are built as well as Toyota's today. In a recent JD Powers ranking, Buick TIED with Lexus for the #1 most dependable automobile. Outstanding achievement since Buicks cost half as much as many Lexus'. I drive a '06 Dodge Charger,109,000 miles as a sales rep and it has never seen a repair shop, I just change the oil myself every 9,000 miles. You Jap car buyers had good reason to abanondoned American cars in 1979-1995, now you are simply hurting your country by your never ending cheer leading for foreign car manufactures.

American cars' gas mileage statistics tell the whole story. Significant automotive engineering and design breakthroughs are all made overseas these days. Perhaps a decade from now American cars will have features which are standard on Mercedes and other innovative auto makers.

[Magi]

DapperDave wrote:

Doesn't really much matter if gasoline is free when the car your driving is broken down on the side of the road with mechanical or electrical problems - which is fairly common with Chrysler products.
I've had good luck with Ford products. I had a 1997 Mercury Sable that never gave me a single problem. I now have a 2006 Mercury Montego. However, the rear disc rotors had to be replaced at 25,000 miles. Other than that, so far so good.
The Montego gets 20+ mpg in the city and 28+ mpg on the highway - almost exactly what the EPA sticker on the car stated when I purchased it.
That being said, if had it to do all over again I'd opt for the smaller Mercury Milan.

This is off topic, so let me apologize, but nobody gets to say something nice about Ford in my presence ever again. I've bought American since I was 17, but my next car will be a Toyota or Nissan. Why? Because I despise the dishonesty of Ford dealers.

I had my Explorer in the shop and had one thing fixed under the extended warranty. The trans was acting up, too, but the Ford dealer in Upland told me to "just bring it back" because they didn't have time to look at it. Well, the warranty had expired while it was in, so when I brought it back a few weeks later, they told me to pound sand. FMC told me the same thing, even though their service manager didn't bother to tell me once I left all bets were off.

The Escape hybrid I was going to get for myself and the little Focus my kid wanted have morphed into a Nissan hybrid and a Prius. Since I spend 350 a month in gas, I figure it'll be a wash...

No wonder American car sales are plummeting. By the way, does Chrysler make a hybrid? I really would rather buy American...just not a Ford.

[Rear End Licken]

You can will them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life....." (Leviticus 25:44-46)

Rape of American lady then made to be a slave!

[Tom Loy]

Consumers would be better off buying toyota or honda. The 2.99 gas is a rip off. You save more money with the rebate. And chrysler is tipping its hand it has NO intention of improving the mpg of its vehicles, so, its been nice. If I worked for chrysler I'd start job hunting now.