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Top Vehicle Searches on iSeeCars in Q1 2009
Here are the top vehicle searches by iSeeCars.com users for the first quarter (January to March) of 2009. iSeeCars.com currently enables users to search over 2.5 million cars for sale across more than 10,000 different car classifieds websites.
The top 10 most searched used cars by make on iSeeCars.com were:
Honda
Toyota
BMW
Nissan
Chevrolet
Lexus
Acura
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More People Are Turning to Used Cars
It’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 [...]
Buying a Used Car from New Car Dealer Vs Used Car Dealer
By Ali Koomen, who spent over a dozen years in the car dealership busines, provides her expert insights
Where do resale lots obtain inventory?
Both the corner used car lot guy and the big resale lot attached to a new car dealership get vehicles via trade-ins, fleet/lease returns, auto auctions and individual sales.
The trades that [...]
iSeeCars.com’s Top Used Car Searches for 2008
iSeeCars.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 [...]
Inside the Used Car Business: How and Where Do the Dealerships make their Money?
By: Sarah E. Sanuth, an insider in the automotive industry with many years of experience in the car dealership and repair business
Used car dealerships are very different than many of your new car dealerships; therefore they make most of their money a different way. They seek their inventory from very different avenues.
Your traditional new car [...]
Avoiding Buying a Flood-Damaged Car
In the aftermath of a series of hurricanes, the Better Business Bureau in Texas (in their Press Release yesterday) provides the following tips to avoid buying a flood-damaged car.
In the wake of a major disaster in your area, the Better Business Bureau urges new and used car buyers to be cautious of unscrupulous businesses and [...]
Step-By-Step Guide to Buying a Used Car
Used cars can save you thousands of dollars on cars just as spectacular as new cars and with relatively low mileage. Used cars can be some of the most fuel efficient vehicles as well. But used cars can also be complete junk and cost you more than a pretty penny.
How do you avoid regretting your [...]
Used Cars Sold by Owners Who are Moving Point to Potential Deals
From personal experience, I was able to get a great deal on a car because the seller needed to move out of the state, relocating for work from Boston, Massachusetts to New York, New York and needed to do so quickly. At the time, I founded the car listing by accident and was not deliberately [...]
Small Used Cars Increasing in Price
With 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 [...]
Buying a Used Car Better than Buying a New Hybrid
A recent Wired blog “Go Green — Buy a Used Car. It’s Better Than a Hybrid” pointed out something interesting — that buying a fuel efficient used car reduces the carbon footprint more so than buying a new hybrid. The article indicates that making a new Toyota Prius takes an amount of energy [...]
Consumer Reports Best and Worst Used Cars
Consumer 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 [...]
Why is iSeeCars Different?
In the first blog post, we described that iSeeCars is a search engine for cars for sale or used car classified listings and talked a little bit about why it offers a unique value proposition. In this post, we’d like to elaborate upon some of the unique differentiation.
iSeeCars searches thousands of car websites across [...]
A Smarter Car Search Engine
When searching for a pre-owned or used car for sale on the Web:
ever find yourself spending a lot of time going from website to website such as Craigslist, Cars.com, or dealership sites in search of the perfect car for a reasonable price?
ever find yourself feeling a bit overwhelmed with the flood of car listings?
ever find [...]