Helping you become a better informed new- and used-car shopper
IIHS. It’s a four-letter word – OK, an acronym, actually – that would scare the living daylights out of you if you were a four-wheeled vehicle. Because IIHS, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, crashes vehicles as its principal function….
Many teenagers are driving around in vehicles that are unsafe by 2014-15 standards for crash protection and safety technology, new research shows. “Unfortunately, it’s very difficult to get a safe vehicle for a teenager at the prices most people are…
It’s an unmistakable sound that no driver wants to hear: the squealing of brakes quickly followed by the loud thunk of two bumpers meeting each other at speed. More than 40 percent of the six million car accidents that occur…
Dodge and Porsche are top of the heap in owner satisfaction, each earning three segment awards in the benchmark J.D. Power 2014 APEAL Study. Audi, Ford, Mercedes-Benz and Nissan each received two segment awards in the study. Porsche also scored…
Baby boomers, Gen-Xers and millennials appear to have more in common in the purchase of used vehicles than you might have imagined. A study by CarMax, which compiled data from its 130 locations across the United States between March 2013…
More than three-dozen different vehicle models earned recognition with segment awards in Strategic Vision’s 2014 Total Quality Index survey of 38,361 owners. The survey identifies 28 segments ranging from micro car to heavy-duty pickup and luxury SUV, but 37 separate…