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
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
Fourteen percent. That’s how far Ford’s May sales slid compared with last year. On paper it looks like a red warning light, 190,000 vehicles that never drove off the lot. Social feeds
There is a moment in every car deal when the buyer thinks the hard part is over. The price is agreed. The handshake happened. Maybe there is even that tiny rush of victory, the one that comes
A neighbor of mine just bought a new truck. Decent guy, nothing fancy, mid-trim F-150 with the basic four-wheel-drive package. We were standing in his driveway looking at it last weekend, and he menti
Car repossession numbers haven't looked this bad since the early '90s. Last year, 1.73 million vehicles were taken back by lenders across the United States, the highest total since 2009. And a
Buying a car in 2026 is expensive enough before anyone starts playing games with the numbers. And dealerships know that. The tactics haven’t really changed much over the years. The cars a
If you've been thinking about buying a car, the last few months probably felt like the worst possible time. Tariff headlines everywhere. Price hikes of $3,000 to nearly $9,000 on imported vehicles
If you haven’t looked at your car insurance bill in a while, go find it. Seriously. The average full-coverage policy in the U.S. is now over $2,000 a year, and in some places it feels much worse