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Everyone

And welcome to america under the microscope advanced level

James Here

So today

We're going to continue to talk about driving

Yes

And we left off last lesson talking about licensing

And all that stuff

No

Let's go into the fun stuff actually buying a car

Yeah

Let's start with new cars

Do people in america do a lot of them still buy new cars

No Yeah

A lot of people to buy new cars

Because there's still the image of new cars being more reliable

You know fresh out of the new cars less likely to break and die

There's a lot of people preferred new cars

So do you

You also have to go to a car dealership

Yeah

You don't have any choice

Ah the only place to buy new cars is at the dealership

You can go online

You can search different models

You can even request that a car be sent to a dealership

Free to try

But you still have to go through them

You still have to go to a dealership

Partially

Because when you buy a car

You have a licensiit to the state

You live in

So it's really hard to buy a car out of state

Because when you buy a car out of state

Yet the licence yours state and the taxes can be different

Oh

So it's the same

So if you live in state a

Then you need a car license in state a

Yes

So if you buy the crent state b

You don't need to pay the state b taxes

You think have to pay the state a taxes would be quite complex that it um

But the

The dealership

Ps

Actually do you with

With this

I think think

Lot lot

Our listeners would be a bit

It ious ous

About the difference

About the

The terms of cars

Especially

New cars

Because in china most people would prefer to buy a new car

So let's compare some make a model lelet's start with a mit range or cheaper card a toyota camerry

Oh Yes

That's a very common car

Both in china america okay

So how much would that be to buy it new uh around twenty four thousand dollars

Depending on what features you want okay

Twenty four thousand dollars

I guess that's slightly cheaper not much cheaper and in china is slightly cheaper um what about

Let's say a more expensive car

Abmw three series uh

That's around forty five thousand dollars

So a bit more than the toyoa uh through the price difference now is probably more pronounced

You know when the price goes higher

Yeah

Because it's bmw is considered a luxury vehicle

Um when when go

Go to the dealership

Do you just pay what they call sticker price

So people

People know

Like

Like western countries we don't bargain for things

Like they do here in china

But when we chop for cars

This is one time

When we really do bargain

Because the sticker price is not the price that they will sell it to you for that price is negotiable

How much is the room for negotiation

Now Oh

That really depends on how good your skills are

And negotiations not so simple

Because you have to compare this car to other dealer ships who might be sigtting the same car

Which it different sticker price

Because you also have to talk about things like features

Which once you're willing to add or take a away

And it also has to do with how you're going to pay for the car

You also not just pay up front

You could

But if you do this

If they know you're going to pay cash

They're most likely not going to change his sticker price

Much Oh

So if you want a cheaper price

You have to pay it in instalments

No

You don't have to

You just don't tell them

You're going to pay cash

You kind of just leave them on that you're planning on doing financing through them in which they will lower them ount

Because they think and will you know make more money on interest

And then when it comes time to pay

Then you say i have to cash

Yeah

Here's a cash

And which they've all agree to the price

That can't raise it back up

So that is a very useful negotiation tip

So pretend you don't have the money to buy the car

Straight away they will lower the price

And that you pay well don't lie just tell them you haven't decided how to pay yet great

And after you pay or say no matter if you pay a sticker price or the price after negotiation you pay

Now the car is yours

So was all of these license

Like all these procedures

All these paperwork are you onna do it yourself or does a dealership help you well for a new card

The dealerhelps you with this

They will help you with all the paperwork

You will help you finding it

They will help you fill out the form and all that information it get submitted the dealership will have the copy of the temporary icicence you can put in the car window

Until your real license comes to you in the mail

That sounds like a one stop shopping

So you don't really need to worry about all of these procedures

Yourself

Yeah

Don't need the dealership yet

Because you'll need to buy car

Insurance before you take that home

But that's also very easy to do nowadays with mobile internet you can go on to the insurance companies websites on your phone and buy it online

But then no email you the policy

The dealerships help you with that as well insurance they can

But it's not recommenit

Because they probably no you try not try to make money

So you're better off just comparing online and

But still many people would buy use cars

Because they're 're cheaper right

And we can't buy use cars from dealerships

As well there are many dealerships that sell used cars

And it's really no difference of a process

Other than when you buy used cars

The prices are more newspable able

Because these cars have already a purchased once

Yeah

I think that's the same in china

As well apart from the dealership

You can also go directly to the owner

Oh Yeah

There are a lot of direct private taills

If you go around american neighborhoods are looking newspapapers

Even look online

You see a lot of advertisers for car for sale

Drive by call this number

And so you can actually go see these people

And go inspect the car

But if you're going to buy from a direct private sale

You need to be very careful

Because if don't get ripped off

嗯 Um

Because if you don't know ccars yewell then for example

If someone like me

I wouldn't there buying a used car

Because i don't know what might

Might wrong with

With it

Yeah

So the big advices first of all take someone who knows cars with you

Um

So they can help you

And they also highly recommend you taking the car to a service centre or garage

To have it inspected

But you the buyer should choose the place not the seller

Notice something that's quite interesting

Sometimes i hear this word

Lemon

Like the fruit lemon

Uh Yes

What does that mean

Because they're talking about cars

They say all i bought a lemon

So think of the fruit

Itself the fruit of the lemon is a nice briright yellow food

It looks fairly attracted

Then you buy ite into it

It's swer

So we describe cars and elements s that nice

Nice

But when you start using them their hidden problems

The the hidden problems so think buying a used car

Most what you need to do is to avoid elemor

Yes

But with used cars you have to do all the paperwork yourself i assume yes you do it's not that challenging basically each car

When you buy a car

You get ownership papers

What we call a title um

And you have the transfer the title to the new owner

Which basically just requires some signatures and filing and at the local records office in the town

What about license plate

Yeah you you need those as well

So when you buy a new car

Um so the new cars don't have a license plate

So the leother ership

Ps

You with that people or to get you the license plate

If you buy a used car

It already has a license plate

So when you transfer red title tle uh license plate can transfer to the new tricense steam as well

Kay

I'm going to be very difficult here what if i don't like the license plate

I want something more nick or difonalize

You're more than welcome to pay for a novelty plate

But novelty plate would be like a fun plate for example

I would want llu something

Yeah

You could do this

You could go into the the icicensic office fill out a form

These are much more expensive for obvious reasons

And then you could put down what you won on it

As long as the number is taken

Or is anything offensive

You can't put any swear words

Anything the'll be derrogatory on it

So there re's still some limit

There are limits and what move on to the actual law of driving

I think if you're planning to travel around united states

Or are planning to move there or to study there

These will be very much survival tips

Right

This is something that would actually be very different than china

And what a lot of chinese drivers are used to because law enforcement

When it comes to traffic laws in america

They're very heavily enforced and very heavily monitored

Do you have traffic police

Well

We don't exactly have traffic plaaps

Such is the police and a part of the policejob is traffic enforcement

And that's where most police officers

Regular officers not detectives will spend their jobs is monitoring traffic

Like what we call

Looking for led foots

Which are people who drive too fast

Speeding

Speeding

Now more illegal turning

Illegal parking in all the other illegal things

You do

When you driving

And when you break to traffic loss

You get a ticket

Yeah Fine

So this can happen a couple ways

Some places we do

Have the cameras like spedo here um

And you'll get the ticket in email

But more likely you'll actually be pulled over by the police

So when police actually pulled you over

Ask you to stop

What should you do follow their instructions and stay in the car

Why stay in the car well

Safety

Reason

Smoothly

You're on the side of the car

If you get on on the car

You might be hit and heard

Also the police don't know who you are

Why see you as a potential threat

Right and so they will yellet you

And they might

They might even pull their gun on you and mp

Very scary

I think think part some of these experiences from my friends

And i think to finish off we go into two pretty serious offence

One is reckless driving

The other is dui

Which you probably hear a lot in if you watch ed american tv or movies

What is reckless driving

Well reckless driving is a general term of driving

Dangerously so like for example

If you're driving

When you're really sleepy you and start art across sinons and stuff

Well if you get caught doing this we'probably get a reckd driving fine

And then duy driving under influences

If you were driving

While tricking alcocohol or drugs are other things like that

That's a pretty serious offence

Yeah

If you have aduy you're going to go to jail for the night

You are going to be issued a really heavy fine

And most likely their judge is going to suspend your license for months or a year

With that staying your record

Yes

Forever

Not necessarily forever

But if you do this more than once the women just not let you have licenses anymore reckleless driving and dui these are quite serious offence

Especially dui

If you plan to travel to america

If you planned to drive in america and be careful and drive safe

Yes

Keay care

We'll see the time

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Everyone

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