You know the car ads that have a car with a giant red bow wrapped around it as a holiday present for junior?
Hopefully you had a Merry Christmas, but if a happy new year depends on transportation, a vehicle that you didn't get with a bow wrapped around it Mark's Auto Sales can help.
Perhaps after a few sweater returns or simply from saving, you have something for your down payment.
Mark's Auto Sales has affordable transportation on vehicles that have been serviced and safety inspected. Best of all, you can be financed. Not only can we offer bank and credit union financing like all the big dealerships, you are approved, because we offer buy here pay here financing too.
Please give a call at 1-877-792-4168, visit our site, or check out our Facebook page, and we'll be glad to help.
Happy New Year Colorado!
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Monday, December 7, 2009
New from the North Pole: Santa at Mark's Auto Sales 12-23-09
Mark's Auto Sales community! We just got notice from the North Pole that Santa Claus will arrive at Mark's Auto Sales on Wednesday December 23rd from 3-6pm.
Customers, vendors, associates and community are invited to come by, bring your kids, so they can take a photo with Santa and receive a small early gift from Santa. Bring your camera or we can take the photo. Photos will be posted on the Mark's Auto Sales Facebook Fan Page.
We look forward to seeing you on December 23rd!
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Be Green and Buy Used... You're doing a favor to the environment!
Thanks for checking out our Mark's Auto Sales blog. I have a topic to share today that I hope will be of interest to car shoppers around the country, and that is, "to be green, buy used."
I lived in Boulder Colorado, about 25 miles North of our dealership in Lakewood Colorado. Boulder is known to be a very progressive, environmentally friendly town. With the university and many tech companies calling Boulder and its surrounding communities home, Boulder also has one of the highest income levels in the state. With the introduction of the Toyota Prius, Boulder drivers took storm. I remember one day seeing 45 Toyota Prius' in one day. If its called the "Repulic of Boulder" then move over Volkswagon, this is the new "People's Car."
While the vehicle's gas economy is certainly popular with fluctuating fuel prices, I kept hearing negative reviews about the production of a hybrid vehicles, most especially their batteries. Because battery technology has lagged behind other innovations, the battery rs inefficient in its production and may have to be replaced in as few as a few short years of driving the vehicle.
In an article on wired.com, the author writes that despite the great gas mileage, "it takes 113 million BTUs of energy to make a Toyota Prius. Because there are about 113,000 BTUs of energy in a gallon of gasoline, the Prius has consumed the equivalent of 1,000 gallons of gasoline before it reaches the showroom. Think of it as a carbon debt — one you won’t pay off until the Prius has turned over 46,000 miles or so."
However, when you purchase a used vehicle as opposed to a hybrid, somebody else has already cleared the gap between the carbon debt. From the same article, he states that "a 1998 Toyota Tercel that gets 27 mpg city / 35 mpg highway miles. The Prius will have to go 100,000 miles to achieve the same carbon savings as the 10-year-old Tercel." And there are great vehicles out there, if you are still concerned about gas mileage efficiency. These include, as listed from the aforementioned article:
1994 Geo Metro XFi
Ford Festiva
Ford Aspire
Dodge Colts
Honda CRX HF
1985 Chevrolet Chevette
87 Chevrolet Sprint
With modern equivalents in the:
Toyota Echo
Honda Civic
Chevrolet Prizm
Mini Cooper
Most Volkswagon diesel models.
From advertisements, I know that BMW diesels would compare amongst this list.
While it looks green to pull out of the dealership with the new hybrid, but don't be fooled, you're green to drive a gas efficient vehicle that has already saved more carbon emissions than it took to build the vehicle. About seven years ago I had a 1993 Plymouth Colt coupe which got me gas mileage in the mid thirties to mid forties. Of course when the A/C was on, it would be in the lower of that range. And there was one time, when driving with mostly a tailwind on the highway I calculated 52 mpg. Boy, what would I do to have that car back right now?!
I lived in Boulder Colorado, about 25 miles North of our dealership in Lakewood Colorado. Boulder is known to be a very progressive, environmentally friendly town. With the university and many tech companies calling Boulder and its surrounding communities home, Boulder also has one of the highest income levels in the state. With the introduction of the Toyota Prius, Boulder drivers took storm. I remember one day seeing 45 Toyota Prius' in one day. If its called the "Repulic of Boulder" then move over Volkswagon, this is the new "People's Car."
While the vehicle's gas economy is certainly popular with fluctuating fuel prices, I kept hearing negative reviews about the production of a hybrid vehicles, most especially their batteries. Because battery technology has lagged behind other innovations, the battery rs inefficient in its production and may have to be replaced in as few as a few short years of driving the vehicle.
In an article on wired.com, the author writes that despite the great gas mileage, "it takes 113 million BTUs of energy to make a Toyota Prius. Because there are about 113,000 BTUs of energy in a gallon of gasoline, the Prius has consumed the equivalent of 1,000 gallons of gasoline before it reaches the showroom. Think of it as a carbon debt — one you won’t pay off until the Prius has turned over 46,000 miles or so."
However, when you purchase a used vehicle as opposed to a hybrid, somebody else has already cleared the gap between the carbon debt. From the same article, he states that "a 1998 Toyota Tercel that gets 27 mpg city / 35 mpg highway miles. The Prius will have to go 100,000 miles to achieve the same carbon savings as the 10-year-old Tercel." And there are great vehicles out there, if you are still concerned about gas mileage efficiency. These include, as listed from the aforementioned article:
1994 Geo Metro XFi
Ford Festiva
Ford Aspire
Dodge Colts
Honda CRX HF
1985 Chevrolet Chevette
87 Chevrolet Sprint
With modern equivalents in the:
Toyota Echo
Honda Civic
Chevrolet Prizm
Mini Cooper
Most Volkswagon diesel models.
From advertisements, I know that BMW diesels would compare amongst this list.
While it looks green to pull out of the dealership with the new hybrid, but don't be fooled, you're green to drive a gas efficient vehicle that has already saved more carbon emissions than it took to build the vehicle. About seven years ago I had a 1993 Plymouth Colt coupe which got me gas mileage in the mid thirties to mid forties. Of course when the A/C was on, it would be in the lower of that range. And there was one time, when driving with mostly a tailwind on the highway I calculated 52 mpg. Boy, what would I do to have that car back right now?!
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Please write down your email or any other changed contact info the next time you make a payment, or email staci@marksautosales.com and write that you are updating your customer email address.
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Do you have an email address?
Do we have your updated email address on file?
Mark's Auto Sales is updating our computer systems, and needs to update your contact information, especially email addresses. As more and more people prefer to be contacted by email for account reminders, it is important that we have your preferred email address. If you prefer to be contacted by email your Mark's Auto Sales account representative can take note and keep contact through email for payment reminders.
In the future, you will have the ability to pay online, and your email address will be needed to send you your receipt.
And of course, for customer appreciation events, BBQs, visits from Santa Claus, we want to be sure that our Mark's Auto Sales customers don't miss out. We'll let you know of customer events planned along with more information available on our blog, Twitter, or Facebook fan page.
Please write down your email or any other changed contact info the next time you make a payment, or email staci@marksautosales.com and write that you are updating your customer email address.
Thank you!
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