A used car with gleaming paint, freshly shampooed carpets, and half a dozen pine-scented air fresheners may look beautifully prepared for sale. Or it may be trying much too hard. Flood-damaged
New luxury SUVs have a real talent for making wealthy people feel good and second owners feel smarter. That is especially true when depreciation gets violent. Because there are cars that los
There is a reason car ads suddenly get louder around the Fourth of July. Summer is usually one of those weird in-between stretches for car sales. Spring tax-refund buyers have already made
A lot of used-car shopping happens in a weird little fog. You are scrolling listings, comparing photos, trying to decide whether two cars that look basically identical are actually identical, a
There's a number that car salespeople don't bring up, and financial advisors mention mostly to people who already bought the car. The moment you drive a new vehicle off the dealer's lot, i
Here's how most car deals work when you bring in a trade-in: the salesperson gets your car's keys and your heart set on a monthly payment, and then everything — the new car price, your t
Every hurricane season, every major flood event, something predictable happens in the used car market. Thousands of damaged vehicles get cleaned up, retitled in different states, and quietly put back
Walk onto a new car lot right now and something feels different. The inventory is back. Like, really back. Rows of vehicles, lots of the same trim in four different colors, salespeople who seem ge
If you've been waiting for the right moment to buy a new car, you might want to stop waiting. Fresh data from Kelley Blue Book, released this week, shows that new-vehicle prices moderated in Ma
For a few years there, the future looked pretty settled. Every glossy car commercial had the same mood. Silent roads. Blue charging lights. A handsome crossover gliding past a wind farm. The