'The tariffs made me do it': Customers move fast on cars [View all]
EVERETT — Tony Sundberg likes that new car smell, but he’s purchasing a new vehicle a year earlier than he anticipated.
He’s afraid of a price hike of potentially thousands of dollars if he doesn’t.
“I wasn’t quite ready to do it, but the tariffs made me do it,” Sundberg said on Tuesday as he finished the sales paperwork on his new Kia Sportage at Kia of Everett. He was trading in his 2023 Sportage with only 24,000 miles.
The retired purchasing agent from Edmonds is one of dozens of additional customers that the Everett Kia dealer has seen over the last few days, said Erik Butler, the dealer’s general manager. All because of tariffs on automobiles announced by President Donald Trump on March 26.
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