Helping you become a better informed new- and used-car shopper
New or used? It’s a vexing question. Whether ’tis smarter in the mind for vehicle shoppers … oh, you get the point, even if William Shakespeare wasn’t thinking of cars when he wrote Hamlet. You have a big choice to…
Quality AND value. Two things most of us want in our vehicles. That’s true whether we’re shopping for a new or pre-owned car, truck, SUV or minivan. Still, it’s not always easy to find those qualities, especially if you’re doing…
Look behind the numbers. The subcompact Chevrolet Spark may be Kelley Blue Book’s five-year, cost-to-own overall winner but that doesn’t mean shoppers should automatically pass on other brands and models. The Toyota Yaris iA and Nissan Versa, for example, finished…
And then there were … 31. Three months after the awards program announced 51 candidates in five 2017 World Car of the Year (WCOTY) categories and overall World Car, they’ve trimmed the number by 20. That leaves five finalists each…
Fuel-efficient cars rolled into 2017 in a big way. So, if that’s the way you roll, there appear to be plenty of options. “For automakers marching toward more fuel-efficient cars, 2017 [is] a watershed year,” wrote Aaron Cole, managing editor…
Car shopping is almost always thrilling. But, perhaps, never more so than when experts pick their “best of” lists for the year. And, yet, The Car Connection, an automotive research and shopping website, puts a different spin on such lists…