Helping you become a better informed new- and used-car shopper
Automotive News once called CarMax Inc. the 400-pound gorilla of the used-car market. Not much has changed in the year or so since then, despite the launch of used-car-only stores by Sonic and Asbury automotive groups, which, for the time…
Dealership websites are popular among vehicle shoppers. More than six in 10 such shoppers – 64 percent seeking used vehicles, to be precise, and 61 percent seeking new vehicles – visit auto dealership websites before making a purchase, one study…
There are awards. And then there are AWARDS, as in, awards for winning awards. Such is the case with Kelley Blue Book’s “Our 10 most awarded cars of 2015” in which the vehicle information source ranks the vehicles that most…
It sounds like such a great idea. Compile used-car listings from multiple websites to give shoppers all the options – everything they need to identify their next vehicle – in one online location. One so-called “aggregator,” autolist, even likens itself…
The squeaky wheel gets the grease. Or, in the case of recent vehicle recalls, defective airbags, faulty ignition switches and hacking threat, someone (or thing) made enough noise to get the attention of automakers and/or federal government. Somewhere around 100…
BMW rules the Instagram car world. Or so it appears, based on a study of 4.5 years of hashtagged social media posts conducted by the Auto Insurance Center, a consumer-oriented car insurance news and information website. “Beamers have always captivated…