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Buying a used car : something to think about before you sign the contract.

DABAS blog October 2019 FYI – Buying a used car? Something to think about before you sign the contract. Hello readers, Melbourne’s weather is warming up slowly and the Victorian third-term school holidays, the Royal Melbourne show and the AFL grand final are all behind us for another year. The end of year, university break and Xmas are quickly approaching: 2019 is certainly motoring by. Melbourne’s winter 2019 ocean swimmers, after enduring a temperature low of 8 degrees in Port Phillip Bay this August, are now glad Melbourne’s daylight savings with its longer sunnier days and warmer weather is here, […]

The new MY19 model Toyota RAV4 Range.

DABAS blog September 2019, Hello readers, thirty years ago, in your local shopping strip you could count the number of SUVs on one hand. Now in 2019 with more than three dozen choices of SUVs available, they are found in locust-plague proportions. Indeed, for the past two years Australians have bought more SUVs than passenger cars – and this gap seems to be getting bigger. Today it seems MY19 vehicle buyers prefer the higher seating position of an SUV for enhanced vision of the road ahead. Plus, it is easier to get the growing family – including baby capsules – […]

The MY19 Mitsubishi Triton, a dual-cab ute with AEB +more for under $36.3k

Dabas blog July 2019; Hello readers, hoping your footy team is in one of the eight top spots of the AFL ladder – and still has the original main coach as in game number one of the 2019 AFL season. With the top eight spots in mind – and as mentioned briefly in last month’s DABAS blog post – and whilst responding to a client’s blog-topic request – let’s look more closely at the number three-selling utility amongst Australian buyers so far this year: the MY19 Mitsubishi Triton. Dual-cab utilities are now seemingly replacing the previous generation’s Holden or Ford […]

10 “privately funded” MY19 vehicles

DABAS Blog June 2019: Ten popular “privately funded” MY19 vehicles. Hello readers, hoping your vehicle’s heater is working well now that Melbourne winter’s 2019 season is officially here, as this coming week’s temperatures are predicted to be the coldest – so far – in 2019. As mentioned in last month’s blog post, dual-cab utilities and SUVs get fantastic results in the “overall” Australian sales figures each month, but did you realise that reportedly the most popular new car for Australian families buying a car with their own money – for their own private use – is a hatchback? Toyota’s […]

The updated MY19 Ford Ranger.

DABAS blog post: late May 2019, the updated MY19 Ford Ranger range. Hello readers, hoping all is going well, as the “official first-day of winter” and the 2019 snow season quickly approaches, in Victoria, Australia. Earlier this month DABAS’s blog post briefly looked at the 10 best-selling MY19 vehicles – so far – in 2019; the Ford Ranger variants took the silver medal, in second place behind the Toyota Hi-lux range. As it is now one of Australia’s best-selling vehicles month to month in 2019, the updated MY19 Ford Ranger is proving very popular amongst Australian families and tradespeople alike. […]

Ten best selling MY19 Vehicles of early 2019.

Dabas blog; Early May 2019 – Ten of the most popular cars so far in 2019. Hello readers, hoping the Easter holidays 2019 went well, and you are now settling back into another school term of peak-hour traffic on our Melbourne roads. Over the recent holiday period DABAS had inquiries from clients – overwhelmed by all the MY19 brand-new-car choices – asking which new MY19 car they should buy. Some clients thought just seeing what other people have bought may have been a good starting point – but, as they were advised at their first consultation, for long-term satisfaction – […]

3 things: When buying a used-hybrid vehicle.

Dabas blog post, late April 2019: 3 things to consider when buying a used hybrid vehicle. Hello, “Happy Easter 2019 holiday weekend!”- from DABAS – to all blog readers, As mentioned in the previous two DABAS blog posts, hybrid vehicles can be one of the more environmentally efficient ways to drive a bit greener – (including over this 2019 Easter Holiday long weekend: for Easter travel tips please click here) – they offer smaller fuel-consumption figures and a much cleaner carbon footprint than a fully loaded fossil-fuel-powered car like that Linamint – in colour – Holden Torana GTR-XU1 from 1971. […]

Five popular MY19 Hybrids – from $24k

Five popular MY19 hybrid vehicles; DABAS Blog early April 2019: Hello readers, here in DABAS’s hometown of Melbourne, Australia – and around the world – hybrid cars are presently – increasingly – getting new-car buyers’ curiosity. As mentioned with more detail in last month’s DABAS blog post on environment-minded cars, they can save you money at your local petrol station and they are much kinder on the environment than the family’s Holden VB Commodore from 1979 (or your Ford solar orange XD Falcon, if you’re a Ford enthusiast). DABAS has recently had enquiries asking which mainstream popular hybrid vehicles are […]

Environment minded cars.

DABAS blog post – late March 2019: Environmentally friendly car-buying – some things to consider. Hello readers, as Earth Hour is approaching at the end of this month, if you are thinking of turning off your lights (from 8.30pm till 9.30 on the 30th of March 2019), at DABAS we suggest you keep your headlights on – if driving – for your obvious road safety, and instead investigate other ways in which your new-car purchasing choice can be environmentally friendly. With that in mind, if you’re in the market for a new (or near-new) car, you might want to consider […]

Brand-new car warranties in 2019

Dabas blog early March 2019: New-car warranties in 2019; Hello readers, with various brands’ MY19 brand-new or MY19-updated vehicles offering consumers many variants with amazing safety technology and fuel economy – some models from a starting entry-level budget of $16,000 to $22,000 – this all makes for a very competitive sales environment between the competing brands’ showroom floors, with all of the brand badges keen to get your signature on their sale contract to make their monthly KPI targets – and hold market position – against opposition brands and segment rivals. With a lot of vehicle brands now sharing engines, […]

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