Happy Cyber Monday!!

What is Cyber Monday??




Happy Cyber Monday everyone! What is cyber monday you ask? The video above gives a really good description of this new cultural phenomenon that really goes to show how far online shopping has come in the last few years. With black Friday being one of the biggest in store shopping days of the year for retailers, cyber Monday is starting to really gain some steam. Its online retailers way of catering to their more net savvy customers and helping people who can't get out to the stores take advantage of great holiday savings. Plus its a great marketing idea that gets more business for stores online as opposed to just in the store. How does this relate to the car business you ask? Great question? I have to just sit back in awe and wonder why during a time of such great savings and deals that people are very slow to pull the trigger on a new car purchase during this time of year. Incentives are at their peak during this time of the year and the Preston Auto Group has made it easy for our online customers to take advantage of online shopping like never before with our newly redesigned internet department. Let me be the first to introduce you to cyber Monday....and invite you to save on a brand new car as well as your annual christmas shopping! Visit www.prestonauto.com for more information and for previews of great incentives on new and pre owned vehicles!

Turkey Day!!!

It has arrived. Today is the eve of, in my opinion, the best holiday of the year, Thanksgiving!! For me there are many reasons why this is my favorite holiday. First lets start off with the obvious, being around all of your family and tons of great food and every kind of pie you could think of. It has been a tradition that my family always hosts Thanksgiving, so lets just say I always wake up to the smell of that giant turkey being cooked. After that, my thanksgiving usually consists of this, eating,watching NFL football games, eating some more, watching some more football, take a siesta, and just relaxing all day!! Being an outdoors man, it is also the start of deer hunting season, where for the past few years I travel up to Tionesta, PA where I stay the whole weekend with friends and a camp. All in all it's definitely my favorite time of the year and as soon as its over you already get to start looking forward to Christmas.

I would imagine everyone has their own little traditions that they do this time of the year and I just wanted to wish everyone a Happy and Safe Thanksgiving!!

The Van Man

I'm actually excited about a van but there is probably a reason for that. When I turned 16 there were not one but two vans parked in my driveway. On my sixteenth birthday I got behind the wheel of my mom's Ford Windstar, put my hand over the passenger's headrest, looked into the rear view window, and backed down my driveway. At this point I'm really not hiding anything so I will share with you that there was a leopard cover over the steering wheel too difficult to remove and a sign under the license plate simply stating; Yield to the Princess.



Now let me explain a couple more things. I was 16 one year before all my friends and I had a van so the effeminate qualities the vehicle had were insignificant to me at the time. I had a ride and so did they. So I grew up driving a van and I am sure at one point in my life I will be behind one once again. The feeling I had, at sixteen, driving through the streets of my old town was a distinct feeling of importance. A feeling quite similar to any middle aged man getting looks in his new Sienna, unashamed and comfortable. Yield to the Princess for these times' are a changing. The new 2011 Toyota Sienna is almost here, and when it arrives, please don't put a leopard steering wheel cover on it.

Thanksgiving Honda Style

Last week, after I blogged a little bit about the Happy Honda Days promotion, I figured with all the attention Honda pays to the Holidays there must be some good video out there! Here is a great Ridgeline commercial from a few years ago I had never seen before, I know you will enjoy it! Happy Thanksgiving!

TOYOTATHON!!!

Tis the season. That's right, it's that time of year again, Toyotathon!! For a limited time, there are super savings going on right now here at Preston Toyota. Whether you prefer to lease or purchase, whether it's a car, suv, van, or truck that you are looking for, no problem.....Preston Toyota got you covered. Seriously, due to finance rates as low as 0% on select models and the incredible residual values, it has never been a better time to get into a new Toyota.

One quote that I heard a lot growing up was "Practice what you preach." Now I could sit here tell you how great of time it is right now to get into a Toyota and one might ask..."if now is definitely the time, why haven't you done so yourself?"

The car I was originally driving was purchased when I was doing a ton of traveling for my job. Sooooo, lets just say I put my fair share of miles on that vehicle. Now that I work for Preston Motors, I won't be traveling for my job anymore, so I started thinking...... It would be nice to get into a new vehicle. However, I kind of knew that the trade in value of my vehicle was less then what I owed on it, especially due to the miles!!!! Well, NO PROBLEM!! I just started leasing a brand new 2010 AWD Toyota Rav4 with nothing more down then my first months payment and plate fees. And the best part is that my payments are where I want them to be!!!!

Toyotathon is back!!!

Green Week!!

I`m sure you all know that this week is Green Week, and we all know that Toyota is doing it`s part by producing enviromentally safe and fuel efficient vehicles. So, what can we do? I thought I`d give you some tips on how to live green, it`s alot easier than you`d think! Here are some ideas on how to reduce your carbon footprint!

What we can do to be green at work:

-Re-use office paper by printing on the other side for interoffice documents.
-Purchase only acid free recycled paper for everyday photo copies.
-Use of recycled, brown paper large document envelopes
-Offering invoices by email
-Limit mailings by inserting occasional small flyers with our billing invoices
-Using energy star light bulbs as much as possible. LED bulbs do not contain mercury
-Turning off computers and monitors over nights and weekends whenever possible

At Home:

-Buy locally produced goods as much as possible. This cuts down on carbon emissions and helps support your local economy.
-Are you in the market for a new car? Consider a slightly used car with efficient fuel economy.
-Buy organic food and other organic products as much as you can
-Reuse cloth or other strong bags at the grocery and other retail stores. Keep bags in the trunk of the car (I love Trader Joe's bags, they are very strong and sturdy). Support companies that are trying to make a difference environmentally.
-Consider purchasing more products sold in metal or glass containers.
Reuse a non bacterial metal or plastic drinking bottle. Refill with a larger plastic water container that you can refill or at the filtered tap
-Reuse containers and reduce consumption waste. Ask yourself, "Does that product that I want to buy really need to be packaged in all that plastic?"and "Do I really need it?"
-Wrap your water heater in a special made blanket that you can find at your local hardware store to insulate, save energy and save money on the electric bill.
-Take shorter showers and conserve water use in the kitchen and garden whenever possible
-Use cold water and biodegradalbe, phosphate and petrochemical free soap for laundry
-Use more natural, biodegradable cleaning products. Unplug chargers and small appliances that aren't being used.
-Keep the thermostat between 65-68 degrees and wear layers in the winter months

The 2010 Buick "Lexus Fighter"

General Motors definately has some ground to cover since their most recent financial difficulties. Just before tumbling into the disgrace of Chapter 11, GM finally figured out something to carry itself outside of the mediocracy of the past decade. Maybe your parents or even your granparents once looked at Buick as a contender with most car companies, but over the years Buick's luxerious reputation fueled by powerful engines has faded. There are many reasons for this but the most important thing to understand is that the Buick Lacrosse, once dubbed the Buick "Lexus Fighter," is back and easily one of the best redesigns of the year.

"I will never buy another American made car again."

The mutterings of a compliant customer throughout the nineties and early 20th century slowly become a faint whisper as your behind the wheel of 2010 Lacrosse. The ride remains more quiet than the past models and seemingly just as smooth. Buick has decided that one of its brand characteristics will be hushed motoring. Even on the highway the wind noise is seemingly faint to silent behind the continious hum of the concrete below the tires.