Two things you should know about Denise Cardwell's search for a new car. She knows exactly what she wants. A MINI Countryman. Also, she's not buying a MINI Countryman. ...
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Lexus topped all automotive brands in Consumer Reports magazine's 2013 brand report card. Japanese automakers again dominated the rankings, taking eight of the top 10 spots. ...
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Otto Mayo is a guy who is passionate about cars. When he owns a car, he wants to be in love with it. ...
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If there's one thing you can count on, it's your car. ...
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Lauren Fix is the Car Coach, and she answers your questions about buying, caring for and gassing up whatever car you have or may want to buy. ...
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If you're buying a new vehicle, you're likely going to pay more for it than you would have if you had bought it in recent months. With an economy that continues to limp toward recovery, and sharply increased consumer demand for new vehicles, auto companies have started scaling back their cash ...
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The sales pitch goes something like this on the showroom floor: A car salesman makes an enticing promise. "We'll pay off your car loan, no mater how much you owe!" Or "upside down on your current loan? We'll pay off your trade." ...
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After over a decade reviewing cars, I've crunched the numbers on hundreds of "what should I buy" comparisons – both real and theoretical. The hard drive of my laptop is littered with Excel spreadsheets plotting out apples-to-apples comparisons by segment and price range. It seems like a week ...
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When shopping for a new family car, one of the first things many parents research are safety scores from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. ...
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As the world seemed to be collapsing around it in 2009, Carlson Chrysler of Concord, N.H., drew on its traditions, got creative, and managed to come up with the right stuff to survive. ...
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Consumers are spending again, at least on cars. At dealerships across the country, big SUVs, luxury vehicles, and fully loaded smaller cars are flying off the lots. The trend toward expensive vehicles and models laden with pricey technology has been gathering steam, even in an otherwise weak ...
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At long last, Detroit seems to be getting some respect. In the most recent results of an ongoing study, domestic and foreign brands are roughly neck and neck when it comes to how they’re seen by 18- to 30-year-old buyers. According to CNW Marketing Research of Bandon, Oregon, young buyers ...
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Consumer Reports ranks just below recommendations from friends when it comes to the influence it wields in the automotive marketplace, according to a USA Today survey. So when the venerable magazine weighs in on quality and reliability, consumers pay attention. This year, the magazine says Honda ...
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Briefly noting silver's continued reign as the overall most popular car color, perhaps the most striking statistic of PPG's latest car color survey is that black -- and shades of black, which, indeed, exist -- opened a wide lead over the ubiquitous silver in the North American luxury car segment. ...
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If bling started to go out of fashion during the credit crisis cocktail hour, it was certifiably dead when the housing bubble hangover set in. Big and flashy just seemed out of touch, with the Hummer brand becoming the poster child for all things wrong with excess in transportation. Let the record ...
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It used to be pretty obvious which cars were built in the U.S. (Detroit's Big Three of Ford, GM and Chrysler) and which weren't (everything else). Then in the 1980’s the Japanese started building cars here, which made for some interesting arguments about what constituted an ...
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It’s one of the best-kept secrets of the car business: 0% car financing, one of the largest discounts a consumer could hope for in an entire lifetime of conspicuous consumption, remains stubbornly beyond the reach of most car buyers. The number of 0% deals has soared this year as domestic, ...
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If Europeans had their way, America would have national healthcare, espresso on demand, legal smoking in the workplace, and the same rational love of hatchback cars and sport wagons that they have. How is all that going? Despite healthcare reform, Americans are no closer to a single-payer healthcare ...
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It's just plain human nature: Every day, buyers across the country drive their shiny new vehicles off dealership lots, and immediately get the sinking feeling that they could have gotten a better deal somewhere else. But where would that somewhere be? How about Tampa, Atlanta or Washington, D.C.? ...
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Crossovers, as a class, have become the most popular vehicles in the U.S. What's so surprising is that this class of vehicles didn't even exist 20 years ago, and even a decade ago nobody was using the term. According to Ford Motor Company sales analyst George Pipas, nearly one of every four vehicles ...
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