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Originally Posted by disneysteve
The sad thing is the reps all drive nicer cars than me. I've got my 1998 Toyota and they never have anything more than about 2 years old. Personally, I couldn't care less what they drive. I'd rather see the companies let the reps drive older cars and lower the cost of the drugs.
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I used to be in that industry years ago and the drug companies get there cars on the cheap. For example, look at a company like J&J where you have so many different divisions of a company from medical device to pharmaceutical to retail, etc... They are buying tens of thousand of cars and get them for next to nothing. They are buyng in such bulk. Fleet cars are sold extremely cheap to companies. There is also a reason that they turn the cars over at certain mileage points and after so many years. For them, they can return them to fleet at a mileage point where they are not completely devalued and fleet can re-sell them. They run the numbers to know what mileage vs. maintainance, etc... will cost them the least amount of money. Therefore, that helps them keep the cost down. I used to be in house at my company and know enough about some of this stuff to just be a little dangerous! That's why you see them turning cars over every two - three years. They are in the business of science and they even have car buying down to a science as well.