March is turning out to be the best month for car sales and leasing since 2007. If you are like a lot of consumers, you are finally getting off the couch and into a new car, SUV or truck. Surveys show consumers are showing more confidence in the economy, and shopping sites like AOL Autos for their ...
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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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Joining a slew of other vehicles formerly owned by American presidents that have come to market of late, Lyndon B. Johnson's convertible 1964 Lincoln Continental will be sold at auction on March 3. ...
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On the fence about buying a new car? Consider that if you are looking to trade in or sell your car, chances are that you'll get more now than in past years, and more than you will likely get one, two or three years from now. ...
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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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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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Leases can save you a bundle on your monthly payment, but you should never forget that you don’t actually own the vehicle. Otherwise, you may get a very expensive reminder at the end of your lease when your car undergoes its wear-and-tear inspection. That’s when you learn the price tag ...
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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 ...
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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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Whoever said that only men have the need for speed? Not Tracey Richardson of Lexington, Kentucky, who drives a 2010 Corvette Grand Sport with a 6.2-liter V8 engine that rides herd over 430 ponies. And not Tamara Wong of Dublin, California, who gets her motoring kicks behind the wheel of a 2006 Dodge ...
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It might seem a no-brainer that a list of the most overpriced vehicles would include the $1,990,000 Bugatti Veyron. Or perhaps even a $443,000 Rolls-Royce Drophead Coupe? But it doesn't. Truth is, they're not exactly the sorts of vehicles buyers would ever call overpriced, because that's part of the ...
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Read & Discuss »What do women want? Well, given that “gender war” tales have become such a fertile source of debate in recent years -- with whole books devoted to the topic -- the temptation to crack wise is a powerful one. "If I knew the answer to that, I’d still be married." "What do they want? ...
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