Nearly 1 percent of all vehicles in the used car market top 200,000 miles.
Three cars, the Honda Accord, Subaru Legacy and Toyota Avalon, cracked the top 20 most used cars sold with over 200,000 miles.
Why do trucks and full-sized SUVs dominate the longest running vehicle list?
Theories abound such as trucks are made to haul more weight and have correspondingly stronger parts; they’re less complicated and easier to service, leading to more frequent...
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
We don't take people's inventory and we are not here to preach, witness or make you cry. We look at this as a business decision, not as one from the heart. You can always donate money, which charities appreciate a lot more than an automobile or "stuff" that has to be converted to cash. I have worked with many charities, some good, some not so good and they always want your money, as in "dead...
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
If you have a used car to sell over $10,000 and you want to do it yourself, chances are you having a hard time. Most buyers looking for a late model used car over $10,000 don't have the resources to pay cash. If they do, they probably wouldn't be looking for a used vehicle! If you've tried Craigslist & AutoTrader.com you are probably tired of searching for a buyer for your vehicle. You don't wan't...
Thursday, March 13, 2014
If you're selling a used car privately, there are several sites that can provide a benchmark value for your used vehicle. The best one out there is NADA because that is the one banks & finance companies will look at before they approve a loan on your vehicle to a potential buyer.
A bank will "advance" or finance a percentage of the book value, based on the creditworthiness of the potential buyer. That means, he/she...
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Why every franchised car dealer shouldn't do their own SEO
So I looked at the bills this month for our two websites; CarBuyerUSA.com and DamageMAX.com and got to thinking…
Google is getting richer and richer and they keep raising the bar for us. The more we spend, the more they take and the less they deliver. All the hocus-pocus around the Google Algorithms and staying "relevant" is incredible taxing. We spend nearly a third of...
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Toyota is recalling around 1.9 million hybrid Prius cars around the world following the discovery of faulty software in the car's hybrid-control system.
The affected vehicles were manufactured between March 2009 and February 2014.
Toyota said that some 713,000 in Prius Cars in North America have been affected.
Toyota says of the software defect: "In rare circumstances, the hybrid system might shut down while the vehicle is being driven, resulting in the loss of power...
Monday, March 10, 2014
Most people don't know the impact of a salvage title, they may not even know their vehicle has one! In all the excitement of buying a nice used truck, most buyers are more caught-up about the diameter of the wheels and tires or how many inches of lift it has–not the type of title they are getting.
What you need to know about salvage titles is that they decimate the value of the vehicle. There...
Wednesday, March 05, 2014
The National Traffic Highway Safety Administration reports that odometer fraud costs American consumers nearly $1 billion per year.
“With odometer rollbacks, the value of the vehicle is artificially inflated so people are losing money by not only paying more for the car than it’s worth, but also in the amount of service and repairs that are going to be needed sooner than expected because the car has 50,000-100,000 miles more than the buyer expects,” said...
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