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Total Car Score CEO Karl Brauer on its list of best automobile brands and models and how low rates are helping car companies.
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Kelley blue book predicting that auto sales could be sold -- this month the banks stepped.
Hot deals this Memorial Day weekend maybe up 30% increase in the month of may.
Our next guest is Alan they -- of the cars that you may want to.
Keep an eye on joining us now as call Carl -- -- CEO of total car score -- fresh start with.
Why sales are cited stronger -- economy is lackluster but people are hot to -- new car.
Yes they are vegan because people have been waiting to buy a new car for years there's been you know economic issues and concerns over the price of gas but people are I think just the -- had a with a car -- -- right now.
And they've actually been able to kind of turn it on its head which is to say that when gas goes up and they know that all the new cars are getting better mileage they can tell themselves well.
-- -- -- new car gets the better mileage than I'm I'm doing something good for the planet it's not really about me it's about saving mother earth so I think that's that's led to lot of car sales.
Any reason to go out shopping Franklin regardless of the world of what -- buying.
Did tell -- about could you just did a ranking of cars and which brands you've found to be the most desirable.
All.
We had a lot of cars coming -- that were very competitive in the east segments.
But Ford and Honda -- the two leading brands Ford had five winners out of the twenty categories that we tracked.
And Honda had four.
And this is really good news for both of them it just shows that their cars are very competitive because you know the web -- that that we started.
Tracks the industry kind of assessment of the cars not one or two opinions it's the entire industries opinion of these cars combined into a single total car score.
And that's where Ford and Honda have done really good as well as some of the other brands General Motors did really well -- with five models cross third different divisions.
Carl what about we were talking about record low mortgage rates what about the kind of deals that you can get arm in terms of -- saying and lines.
Because rates are so low now.
Well again that's the other thing that's working for the car companies right now is that this -- interest rates are -- at record lows.
And of course we're starting to get a lot of the thirteen they're coming in now normally you don't see this real rush to get rid of the twelfth to -- a few months from now but.
The other manufacturers can never start too soon -- to get the thirteen is in in the twelve -- -- combined the twelve that are still really nice new cars for only halfway through twelve right now.
With these low rates that they're offering interest rates to try to start moving them and memorial -- we can would be a good weekend to get out and look at some of these cars that are scoring -- on this list.
Carl thank you so much -- -- it was great to see you please come back.
It is a quarter tell how.
