I'll bet you didn't know this about buying a car!

Steve Lehto. a practicing attorney, says that the most important thing you should know when buying a car is this:

"Car sales are controlled by the purchase agreement you will be asked to sign once a deal has been struck. Most of these are pre-printed forms smothered in boilerplate legalese. Among the gibberish they ask you to sign is a sentence or two confirming that "verbal statements made by the sales person are not binding on the seller." Yes, that means the salesman can tell you anything he wants; it won't mean a thing legally. "This car is brand new." "This is a one-owner car." "This car has never been wrecked." "This car was not pulled from the bottom of a canal and refurbished after we pulled out all the dead alligators." 


Lehto's column. "The most important car buying tip" explains ways to deal with this little wrinkle in the sales process. Here's the link:


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-lehto/used-car-salesmen_b_906511.html