Helping you become a better informed new- and used-car shopper
The squeaky wheel gets the grease. Or, in the case of recent vehicle recalls, defective airbags, faulty ignition switches and hacking threat, someone (or thing) made enough noise to get the attention of automakers and/or federal government. Somewhere around 100…
BMW rules the Instagram car world. Or so it appears, based on a study of 4.5 years of hashtagged social media posts conducted by the Auto Insurance Center, a consumer-oriented car insurance news and information website. “Beamers have always captivated…
Edmunds.com once regarded the Pontiac Aztek one of the ugliest cars of all time. But don’t tell that to millennials, who are buying it at a higher rate than all but five other used vehicles. More than one-quarter (25.5 percent)…
Now what? That probably is the first thing you utter – well, maybe the second – when you are notified that your vehicle has been recalled. All you can imagine is how inconvenient it’s going to be to have your…
Chances are you’ve heard of Kelley Blue Book. And maybe even a few other used-car research websites such as Autotrader.com, Cars.com, TrueCar.com, eBay, Yahoo Autos and Edmunds.com. But even more resources exist – we found 16 websites that comprise mainly…
Choices. So many choices. And that’s just deciding which websites to use when shopping for your next vehicle. If you’re like most car shoppers (95 percent, according to Google), you start your search for the perfect vehicle online, scouting make,…