{"id":189769,"date":"2010-02-15T21:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T02:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/15\/wicked-stupid\/"},"modified":"2010-02-15T21:31:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T02:31:00","slug":"wicked-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/15\/wicked-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"Wicked Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of the blow-back from their spate of problems and associated recalls, <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2010\/02\/15\/autos\/Toyota_incentives\/index.htm?section=money_topstories&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fmoney_topstories+%28Top+Stories%29\">Toyota is considering US automaker style incentives to move its cars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They are talking about the various &#8220;invoice pricing&#8221; and &#8220;rebate&#8221; programs, and this is a bad thing, because they push down resale value.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things that drives people to Toyotas is the fact that depreciation is much less than in similar American cars.<\/p>\n<p>If they go the rebate programs, they won&#8217;t get out easily, and they lose one of their market advantages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of the blow-back from their spate of problems and associated recalls, Toyota is considering US automaker style incentives to move its cars. They are talking about the various &#8220;invoice pricing&#8221; and &#8220;rebate&#8221; programs, and this is a bad thing, because they push down resale value. One of the things that drives people &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1108,1005],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-industry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}