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Options When Selling Your Car

Options When Selling Your Car

You have options when selling your car.  A recent article by Kiplinger outlines how a consumer might look at the varying options.

Kiplinger notes that a good “backstop” is to get a quote by CarMax.  According to Wikipedia, CarMax now has 128 locations across the USA, so there’s a good chance there’s one near you.

Kiplinger notes that dealers usually can’t beat CarMax, but even there you may get…

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Top Car Options for Winter Driving

Top Car Options for Winter Driving

Old man winter is here, and if you’re in the market for a new car, you’d best take notice of the top car options for winter driving.  Taking a look at this handy list, courtesy of Edmunds.com, may help you out during the winter freeze.

Winter weather can affect the way you interact with both your vehicle and the road.  Freezing temperatures can negatively impact how comfortable you are in your…

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Best Time To Buy a Car During the Holidays

Best Time To Buy a Car During the Holidays

What’s the best time to buy a car during the holidays?   Is it Black Friday?  Christmas Eve?  Or should you wait until the absolute end of the year and buy on December 31st?

The Wall Street Journal reports that consumers are best to wait until New Year’s Eve to get the best deals.

The WSJ says that TrueCar data from 2013 shows that the average percentage discount on Dec. 31 is 8.82%, compared…

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10 Cars Whose Popularity Has Grown the Most

10 Cars Whose Popularity Has Grown the Most

If you’re looking for a list of the vehicles whose popularity is skyrocketing, look no further.  Our friends over at The Truth About Cars have published a list of the 10 cars whose popularity has grown the most over the past year.

The Chevrolet Corvette is the fastest growing auto nameplate in America through the first ten months of 2014.

Corvette volume is up 146% this year, an improvement of…

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How Much More Will I Pay for a CPO Vehicle?

How Much More Will I Pay for a CPO Vehicle?

Certified Pre-Owned (CPO) vehicles are selling better than ever.  But deciding between a CPO car and a regular used car can be confusing.  How do I decide between pros/cons?  And how much more will I pay for a CPO vehicle?

In their Q3 Used Vehicle Market Report, Edmunds.com looks at 22 different vehicle segments and the premium you’ll pay for buying a CPO unit vs. a regular used vehicle.

What the…

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How Much Should I Put Down as My Downpayment On a Car?

How Much Should I Put Down as My Downpayment On a Car?

Financing a vehicle purchase means a lot of confusing decisions to be made.  Not only do you have to decide whether leasing or financing is a better fit, but consumers have a hard time figuring out how much they should put down as a downpayment on a car.

The website Credit.com has a great article to help.  We summarize their findings below.

Conventional wisdom says that a good down payment for a…

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Vehicle Redesigns and Impact on Pricing

Vehicle Redesigns and Impact on Pricing

When buying a new car, consumers should ask about when their car is due for a makeover.  In the automotive industry, instead of the word “makeover”, they typically use the term “redesign”.  It’s often hard to find good information about how long until a specific car is due for a redesign, and it’s even hard to estimate what kind of impact that redesign is likely to have on used vehicle values.…

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Lowest Depreciation New Cars

Lowest Depreciation New Cars

When shopping for a car, the cost of ownership should be of keen interest to the consumer.  The largest component of cost of ownership is typically depreciation of your car.  From the time you first drive the car off the lot, your vehicle starts to depreciate.  Consumers are wise to focus on those vehicles with the lowest depreciation.

Low depreciation will ensure that you’re in “positive equity”…

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Top 10 Most Popular Vehicles

Top 10 Most Popular Vehicles

If buying a car was based on a popularity contest, you’d want to reference the top selling cars in the USA.  We figured that this list would be helpful for our shoppers, so we’ve sources a list of the top 10 most popular vehicles, based on October 2014 YTD sales.

Our friends over at GoodCarBadCar.net have published a list to the top 275 best-selling vehicles in the US.  From this list, we…

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Trade-In: How Do You Get the Most for Your Vehicle?

Trade-In: How Do You Get the Most for Your Vehicle?

When it’s time to trade-in your car, how do you get the most for your vehicle?  Our friends over at Investopedia have published an article on which factors influence the value of your trade-in.

Kelley Blue Book (kbb.com) is the most established of the trade-in pricing resources.  It tracks thousands of new and used car purchases a week by monitoring consumer sales, wholesale auctions where…

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Searching for the Best Auto Finance Rate

Searching for the Best Auto Finance Rate

Is there a resource out there when you’re searching for the best auto finance rate?  How does your bank or credit union (or even the dealer) figure out the rate they offer you on your auto loan?  It’s often not transparent to the consumer how this decision is made.

Cars.com has published a handy list that summarizes how lenders decide your auto loan rate.  We summarize this information below.

Wha…

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Consumers Can Be Overwhelmed with Vehicle Choices

Consumers Can Be Overwhelmed with Vehicle Choices

By some counts, there are over 7,000 different combinations of new cars available for sale, when you include the different Makes, Models and Trim levels.  It’s no wonder that consumers can be overwhelmed with vehicle choices.  How is the average consumer supposed to sort through all of these options?

In a recent article by Yahoo!, Why You Need a Spreadsheet to Choose Your Porsche, highlights this…

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How To Buy a Car Guide

How To Buy a Car Guide

If only someone had a guide for the best way to buy a car.

Well, wait no longer.  The MoneyCrashers website has published their How to Buy a Car guide.   This is a handy reference that provides their “15 Essential Tips to Get the Best Deal”.

We recap these 15 tips below.

1. Do Your Research

The most important thing to know before you buy a car is that knowledge is power.  It’s a mistake to arrive…

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Are You Better Off Selling Privately or Trading-In To Dealer?

Are You Better Off Selling Privately or Trading-In To Dealer?

Are you better off selling your car privately, or trading-in to a dealer?  This is a tough question for a consumer, and there are pros and cons to each.

The folks over at About.com have published a great article that helps you figure out which option is best for you.

It is a problem faced by consumers since the first car was traded in: is it better to sell or trade in used cars?  Answer these 7…

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Guide to Trading in Your Car

Guide to Trading in Your Car

You will almost always get more money for your used car if you sell it yourself.  But unless you have a buyer waiting in the wings, it is often easier and faster to trade in your vehicle when buying a new one.  If only someone provided a guide to trading in your car.

The website DMV.org has published a handy guide to Trading in a Used Car.  We summarize this great information below.

No matter how…

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Tips for Negotiating Your Vehicle Trade-in

Tips for Negotiating Your Vehicle Trade-in

Negotiating your vehicle trade-in can be tough.  Let’s face it – you don’t have to negotiate much in life, and the dealer does this for a living.

Our friends at Bankrate.com have summarized their 8 Tips for Negotiating Your Vehicle Trade-in.   We recap their recommendations below.

You’ve decided on a car trade-in.  Although you realize selling your car yourself will net you the best deal, the…

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Boosting the Value of Your Trade-In

Boosting the Value of Your Trade-In

While the vehicle trade-in process isn’t always enjoyable, there are some time-tested ways of increasing your chances of getting the most for your car.

The folks at Bankrate.com have published a great article that helps with boosting the value of your trade-in.  Read on for a summary of their findings.

If you’re in the market for a new car but need to get rid of your old one first, you’re…

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