Helping you become a better informed new- and used-car shopper
New vehicle or used, students (and their parents) have options. Kelley Blue Book and Edmunds, both of which are recognized widely for their automotive expertise, have offered complementary recommendations for back-to-school vehicles. KBB’s “A-List” comprises 10 models from 2015 and…
Shoppers who swallow hard and pay a premium for the clean technology and fuel efficiency of a new electric vehicle (EV) evidently need to gulp even harder when they trade-in or sell that vehicle. Some electrics are losing so much…
Will you go shopping on Black Friday? No, not the day after Thanksgiving, which still is several months away. But its car-shopping equivalent (according to Fortune magazine): Labor Day, which falls on Sept. 7 this year. “Labor Day means the…
We’re dummies when it comes to hybrid and electric vehicles. That’s what green-car experts seem to think anyway. Because of that, we don’t buy as many alternative-fuel vehicles as we should – they accounted for only about 3.5 percent of…
The future of car-hacking is now. That appears to be the lesson of the recent demonstration of hacking involving a Jeep Cherokee, which instigated the recall of about 1.4 million vehicles by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA). Evidence suggests that drivers…
American drivers find vehicle technology very appealing. Safety technology, especially, increases vehicle appeal, reports J.D. Power and Associates, which conducts an annual survey of Automotive Performance, Execution and Layout (APEAL). For example, the overall APEAL score among new owners of…