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Friday, July 14, 2006 

Holy Restocking Fee, Dr. Z!

(ripped 100% in whole from Cars! Cars! Cars!)

We're glad someone took the time to look into this 30-day guarantee that Chrysler is touting: The Detroit News reports: Chrysler's '30-day, money back guarantee: What's the catch. Check out this arithmetic:

Let's start with a restocking fee of 5 percent of the stickerprice (ouch!), add in the 50-cents per mile usage fee (yikes!), all the sales tax (what!?) plus finance fees, title, tag and registration (grrr!).

Total it up on a premium ride like a Jeep Grand Cherokee Overland, and returning a car you just purchased for about $34,000 could easily cost about 14 percent of the total purchase price -- more than $4,600.

That's a lot of bratwurst, beers, and hookers.

Aw, forget the bratwurst and beers.

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