General Automotive News
Cash for Clunkers (CARS) Extended $2 Billion
Friday, August 7th, 2009The Cash for Clunkers program was extended by President Obama today to the tune an additional $2 billion on top of the initial $1 billion that is almost used up. “Now, more American consumers will have the chance to purchase newer, more fuel efficient cars and the American economy will continue to get a much-needed [...]
Cash for Clunkers (CARS) Program: How it Works
Saturday, August 1st, 2009By now, everyone has probably already heard about the Cash for Clunkers program, officially known as CARS, standing for “Cars Allowance Rebate System”. In case you haven’t heard, the U.S. government created a $1 Billion incentive program in July 2009 to get consumers to trade in their fuel sipping clunkers for new cars with better [...]
Consumer Reports Most Reliable Used Cars
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009Prior to the easy availability of the internet, used car buyers had to rely on Consumer Reports Magazine in order to find out the best and the worst of what was available. While a lot of information is now quickly accessible online, those seriously considering a used car purchase should buy this month’s (April [...]
Car Owners Hold On to their Cars Longer
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009Some interesting stats from this weekend’s New York Times article about the fact that American car owners are holding on to their cars more during this economic recession.
The median age of cars on the road hit a record 9.4 years in 2008, up from 9.2 in 2006 and 2007
The percentage of cars taken off the [...]
Used Hybrid Car Prices Down
Thursday, March 19th, 2009What were you doing last summer when gas prices skyrocketed over four bucks a gallon? Did you walk more? Take the bus? Carpool? Did you ditch that big Hummer or Suburban in favor of a smaller, more fuel efficient car? Did you take it one step further and buy a hybrid like [...]
More People Are Turning to Used Cars
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009It’s no longer a status factor to have newer and shinier, but to make do with what one has. Parts and service departments across the country are reporting good numbers as people chose to fix their current vehicles rather than trade out and into something new.
Taking this into consideration, there’s no better time to [...]
iSeeCars.com’s Top Used Car Searches for 2008
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009iSeeCars.com, the leading Web 2.0 car search engine providing the best unbiased experience for consumers to search pre-owned cars for sale quickly, easily and smartly, reports the top used car searches for 2008. iSeeCars.com currently enables users to search over 2 million cars for sale across more than 10,000 different
car websites.
The top 10 searched used cars by [...]
Federal Law Mandated Car History Database Makes Used Car Buying Safer
Friday, February 6th, 2009By Ali Koomen, who spent over a dozen years in the car business
Buying a used vehicle just got a little safer, thanks to a new federal law known as the National Motor Vehicle Title Management System, or NMVTIS. It has been a long time in the making, but within the year it should be [...]
Small Used Cars Increasing in Price
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008With gas prices at $4/gallon, compact, more fuel efficient used cars are going up in price due to higher demand by car buyers while trucks and SUV’s are sitting on the lot, according to an article in the Courier Journal. “The average used Civic, for example, rose in value 2.7 percent from April 1 [...]
Consumer Reports Best and Worst Used Cars
Thursday, April 17th, 2008Consumer Reports just came out with its list of best and worst used cars selected from the past 10 model years from 1998-2007, based on data from Consumer Reports’ 2007 Annual Car Reliability Survey.
Examples of the best used cars include: Toyota Prius, Acura Integra, Infiniti G35, Nissan Altima, Subaru Impreza, Lexus LS, Toyota Highlander, Lexus [...]