Lehigh Valley Auto Dealers

One of the items in the new stimulus package that Congress is voting on this weekend affects new car buyers in the country. Authored by Barbara A. Mikulski, the Democratic Senator from Maryland, the new bill allows buyers of new cars to deduct the state sales tax and excise taxes on their returns next year if they buy a new car or other new vehicle during 2009. Could there be any better reason to consider a new Hyundai car this year?

“Everyone wants to save auto manufacturers, but now matter how much government aid we give to the…auto makers, they can’t survive if consumers don’t start buying cars,” Mikulski said of her proposal. She went on to say that her proposal “stimulates demand in the automobile industry so that people go to showrooms and buy cars.”

The tax break takes up more than $1.6 billion of the stimulus package and no longer has the interest deductions that her original plan had. The National Automobile Dealers Association supports the plan and has lobbied its representatives in Congress to help push the plan through.

Keep this in mind when you visit your Pottstown area Hyundai dealer in 2009. Deducting state sales and excise taxes is a great way to save money while enjoying a brand new car.

You’d have to be living in a cave to not know what’s going on in the auto industry. The domestic automakers are about to go bankrupt and they are begging the federal government for billions of dollars to prevent that from happening. However, Hyundai Automotive has not fallen prey to a sales slump like the other automakers have experienced in recent months.

Hyundai Automotive enjoyed an increase in sales figures by about 14 percent last month. Those are impressive numbers considering that the industry suffered a 37 percent drop in sales overall when compared with last year’s figures. Officials give much of the credit to the Hyundai Assurance Program, the new deal that allows car buyers to bring their Hyundai back to the dealer if they involuntarily lose their job within a year after making their purchase. And with a new company announcing layoffs nearly every day lately, people are becoming more and more concerned about making their car payments.

“I think we’ve got a lot of wonderful things going for us right now,” explained John Krafcik, the acting CEO of Hyundai Automotive. In addition to affordable cars and the Hyundai Assurance Program, the automaker also has endorsements from Consumer Reports and other respected publications in the auto industry.

With all of this going for the fifth largest automaker in the world, what’s stopping you from visiting your Doylestown area Hyundai dealer for a great deal on a new car? Visit one today and see what you’ve been missing!

In a time when finances are tight for everyone, the new Hyundai Genesis is ideal because it offers luxurious options at a fraction of the cost of other automakers. If you haven’t heard about the new Genesis or if you have been considering it for your next car, here are some things you can expect to find when you visit your Lansdale area Hyundai dealer .

• The Hyundai Genesis is the company’s first rear-wheel-drive car.
• At 16 feet long, the Genesis is the longest car manufactured by the automaker.
• There is room for five.
• Leather trim accents the instrument panel and the doors for only an extra $125.
• Standard luxury gear includes heated front seats, push-button starter, power rear sunshade, 14-speaker audio system and rain-sensing windshield wipers.
• With the $4,000 technology package, you will get an air-conditioned driver’s seat, satellite radio, rear backup camera, a state-of-the-art navigation system and an upgraded 17-speaker audio system.

These are just a few features you will find on the new Hyundai Genesis . Visit your Allentown auto dealers and your local Hyundai dealer today and take one for a test drive. You’ll wonder why you didn’t check it out before!

It looks like Hyundai made a huge splash with its ads during this year’s Super Bowl. The ads promoting the new Hyundai Assurance Program and the new Genesis Coupe luxury car made viewers rush to their computers and look up information on the Genesis and other Hyundai cars in the last couple days.

In terms of numbers, the Kelley Blue Book website reported an 82 percent increase in page views for the new Hyundai Genesis. Online searchers were also particularly interested in the new Assurance Program which allows new Hyundai customers to bring their Hyundai car back to their dealer within one year after purchase if they involuntarily lose their source of income.

“Our Web traffic data shows the online effect today’s vehicles commercials have on shoppers and where they go to find the latest new-vehicle information,” said Rick Wainschel, the senior vice president of marketing and analytics for Kelley Blue Book. Kelley Blue Book has been helping car buyers research prices and other information about cars since 1926, making it one of the foremost leaders in consumer information in the auto industry.

With Hyundai’s bold approach and obsession with getting new customers, why not visit your Pottstown area Hyundai dealer today and see what the excitement is all about? You’ll be glad you did!

In a time when many other automakers are reporting fewer and fewer auto sales, your Allentown auto dealers want to congratulate Hyundai.

The Hyundai Motor Company has reported a 14 percent increase in sales for January 2009. That means the automaker sold more than 24,500 units last month. Those are impressive numbers alone, but they are even more impressive when you look at the figures of other automakers.

Dave Zuchowski, the vice president of national sales for Hyundai Motor America, gives much of the credit to the new Hyundai Assurance Program. “We got off to a quick start in January thanks to the rollout of our all new Hyundai Assurance Program, which has struck a chord with the American consumer during these uncertain times,” he said.

With everybody worried about their jobs these days, the Hyundai Assurance Program offers them a way out. For instance, if you buy a new car from your Doylestown area Hyundai dealer and lose your job in the next year, you can simply take the car back as if it was a blender that you didn’t want from Wal-Mart. The only catch is that you have to make the first two payments to be eligible and you must have lost your job involuntarily or suffered some other consequence that makes it impossible to make your payments.

It’s just another way that your Hyundai dealers are looking out for you.

If you’re like me, one of the great things about watching the Super Bowl is the commercials. This year set a record for the amount of money companies spend on advertising during the Super Bowl, but few of them could compete with the ad from Hyundai Automotive.

Hyundai Automotive’s ad wasn’t flashy or hilarious like many of the other ads this year. Instead, Hyundai focused on a something more practical – financial hardships. One ad placed a major emphasis on the Hyundai Assurance Program in which customers can bring their Hyundai cars back to the dealer if they involuntarily lose their job within one year after purchase. The voice-over for the commercial was just straightforward in order to get the seriousness of the point across to the viewers.

Ads for the Hyundai Automotive Assurance Program beginning running on January 3, but the corporate officials introduced it to dealers about one year ago. The ads have used phrases like “We’ve got your back” and “We’re in this together” to emphasize Hyundai’s loyalty to consumers and let them know they are not alone during these tough economic times.

When it comes time for a new car, you can’t go wrong by visiting your Lansdale area Hyundai dealer. With the option of bringing your car back if you lose your job, what have you got to lose?

The Genesis Forest Project, a new effort by Hyundai Automotive to reduce carbon footprints, is exciting and simple at the same time. You see, one of the best ways to reduce the negative impact of releasing CO2 into the air is to plant more trees. Trees are, in essence, “nature’s clean-up crew.”

This is why Hyundai Automotive promises to conserve and reforest 3,000 acres of tropical forest in one of the world’s “richest and most threatened reservoirs of plant and animal life on earth” when you buy a 2009 Hyundai Genesis. By doing this, Hyundai Automotive is helping to offset your carbon footprint for an entire year.

But helping the environment isn’t the only thing this new program does. The new program also provides workshops for local communities to “promote the utilization of non-timber products such as oils, native fruits and honey.” The program also contributes to the building of a research center where scientists will be able to study forest carbon projects, biodiversity and sustainability.

With reasons like these, can you think of any reason not to visit your Pottstown area Hyundai dealer when it comes time to purchase your next car? You’ll be helping the environment by merely investing in a car that you’re going to enjoy for several years to come.

You may not have heard much from the Smashing Pumpkins lately, but the 1990s alternative rock band is going to feature a new song in this year’s Hyundai Automotive Super Bowl ad.

The new song, entitled “FOL,” is likely going to catch the attention of thousands of viewers who were fans of the band and have awaited their comeback for several years. Joel Ewanick, the VP of marketing for Hyundai Motor America, had this to say about the spot: “The combination of Hyundai’s exciting new Genesis Coupe matched with the music performed by Smashing Pumpkins offers the perfect ‘kick-off’ to Super Bowl advertising.”

In addition to the Smashing Pumpkins, Hyundai has also enlisted the help of classical musician Yo Yo Ma to gain attention for the new Genesis. “From rock to classical, our Genesis Coupe ads demonstrate the two personalities of the car,” Ewanick went on to say.

Hyundai Automotive has purchased five advertising slots for Sunday’s game between the Arizona Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Steelers. The automaker hired Goodby, Silverstein and Partners, a San Francisco-based ad agency, to create the ads. Viewers can also create their own versions of the advertisements by visiting EditYourOwn.com during and after the game.

After viewing the ads, you’ll probably have the urge to visit your Doylestown area Hyundai dealer the next day to check out the Genesis Coupe for yourself. Regardless of who wins the game, you can have your own personal victory when you purchase one of these new luxury vehicles.

Cars communicating with other cars and the road may sound like futuristic technology, but your Allentown auto dealers want to discuss it because it isn’t as far away as you may think.

The Michigan International Speedway has offered its track to automakers so they can test new communication technology that would “allow cars to talk to the road and each other so they become incapable of crashing into one another,” according to this article in the Detroit News. The new technology would prevent about 44,000 traffic-related deaths each year. If auto collisions were prevented, it would also eliminate traffic congestion and create safer roadways all around. Others are happy that the new technology would create about 40,000 jobs in Michigan and once again make the struggling state the centerpiece of the auto industry.

The new initiative, dubbed “Connected Vehicles,” promotes that technology that would install “on-board devices allowing them to know the location of all vehicles in their proximity, and to detect such things as a red light at the next intersection, creating a network of vehicles that refuse to crash,” explained Greg Krueger, the program manager for MDOT’s Intelligent Transportation System office in Lansing.

I remember when the days of self-driving cars were pure fantasy. But with this technology, I may just see that happen before I even retire! Your Lansdale area Hyundai dealer will likely have this type of technology soon after it is available in new models. How exciting would that be?

This year, Hyundai Automotive is celebrating the 10th anniversary of being involved with the fight against pediatric cancer. The involvement has grown by leaps and bounds in the last decade because it merely started out as a local initiative to raise funds for the Jimmy Fund in 1998. Since then, however, it has become a “nationwide program supported by all of Hyundai’s nearly 800 dealers.”

The actual Hyundai Hope on Wheels program, however, did not begin until 2004. It became an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization recently and has donated more than $10 million to causes that are dedicated to helping kids fight cancer. The organization’s Medical Advisory Board has some of the leading cancer advocates on it, including Dr. David Poplack, Dr. Dan Wechsler and Dr. Leonard Sender.

To celebrate the 10th anniversary, the Hyundai Hope on Wheels is going to expand into helping the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s pediatric cancer research projects. Hyundai dealers nationwide will be involved in this initiative as well. Visit your Doylestown area Hyundai dealer today to see what you can do to help this important cause. While you’re there, you may even find a new or used car to take home with you, too.