Tips and Advice
Saving money, saving gas, saving your sanity when car shopping.
- Expensive Car-Selling Mistakes
When it comes to selling your car privately, there’s one question AutoTrader.com Spokesperson Mark Scott says you need to answer: “Is it really worth your time?” After all, selling a car is a process that requires patience, as well as a lot of people- and sales skills -- especially if you’re going to get a fair price. Unfortunately, mistakes along the way can cost you dearly. Reports of low-ball sales ...
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- 3 Simple Steps to Save Money on Auto Repairs
If you’re like most drivers, then you look forward to the repair shop like you look forward to a bad cold. And who can blame you? Visits are often expensive and, unless you understand the repair process, it can feel like you’re being taken advantage of. Still, at some point or another you’ll need to have your car serviced. There are ways you can avoid dishing out big bucks on ...
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- The Least Expensive Cars to Repair
If you have a lot of fender benders, listen up: Ford vehicles are the least expensive to repair after a collision. That’s the conclusion of a new report from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Motor Trend explains that Ford, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles all “cost less to repair after a collision compared to other automakers’ vehicles in the same segments.” It wasn’t a close call, either. “Nearly 80 percent ...
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- Help Ford Build Better Cars
Sick of U.S. automakers producing cars that can’t quite match the performance, luxury or convenience of foreign rivals? So is Ford -- which is why they’ve introduced Your Ideas, a new online community that allows users to help the company develop better products. Your Ideas takes a grassroots approach to auto innovation. Instead of investing millions of dollars into new vehicle platforms that don’t sell, Ford is asking brand loyalists ...
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- Audi Vehicles in Limited Supply
Audi shoppers may have to wait a bit longer than expected before driving off in their brand new cars. “The German luxury brand witnessed its strongest first quarter ever, but the boon in sales has the company facing a shortage in inventory in the United States -- a key market for the automaker,” reports Automobile Magazine. “Last year, Audi cut U.S. deliveries by 6,000 units due to weak sales here ...
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- Buy a Honda Ridgeline While You Still Can
If you’re in the market for a sport utility truck and have eyes for the Honda Ridgeline, you may have only this year and next to buy one. “While the automaker won’t comment, sources tell us that Honda won't replace the current Ridgeline unibody pickup after its current lifecycle ends around 2012,” reports PickupTrucks.com. Surely truck fans will be sad to see it go. The 2010 Honda Ridgeline ranks near ...
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- 2011 Scion xB: New Style, New Price
Interested in buying a Scion xB? Wait a couple of weeks and you can get a restyled 2011 model for not too much more than you’d pay for a 2010. It’s still boxy, but the new look should appeal more to young drivers. “Overall, the exterior changes give the econobox a more aggressive appearance – a good thing, since the second-generation xB wasn't appealing to the young, hipster crowd nearly ...
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- Survey: Customers Most Satisfied with Lexus, Hummer Dealers
An interesting by-product of the recession: we’re happier with our car dealers than we used to be. That’s one conclusion from the most recent edition of J.D. Power and Associates’ annual Customer Service Index study, which looks at how car owners feel about their experience with dealerships’ service departments. Dealerships, having a hard time attracting new customers in the current economy, are working harder to hold onto the ones they ...
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- Toyota May Reimburse Owners for Rental Cars
Good news, Toyota and Lexus owners: getting recall work performed on your car may get much easier soon, and the company may reimburse you for rental car or taxi expenses you incur while waiting for the dealership to perform recall repairs. The benefit is already being offered in New York, but may soon be available in all states. The New York Times explains, “Toyota has agreed to provide free pickup ...
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- Toyota Resale Values Take Another Hit
“The Toyota in your garage,” ABC News reports, “Is losing value by the week.” In the wake of a series of high-profile safety recalls, the company’s public image has taken a hit – and sales of used Toyotas have slowed. The used car value analysts at Kelley Blue Book “dropped the resale values of recalled Toyotas for the second time in four days Monday, leaving them as much as 4 ...
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