Archive for November, 2010

10 Steps to Buying a New Car: Finding the exact car you want to buy

4. Finding the exact  car you want to buy You should now have a very specific idea of the car you want to buy. This means you know the make, model, trim level, options and color. The more flexible you can be about these specifics, the wider the range of the cars you’ll find available [...]

10 Steps to Buying a New Car: Pricing the Car

3. Pricing the Car Car salesmen will usually point to a car’s “sticker price” as the correct amount to pay. However, the price the dealership is willing to sell a car for is often well below the sticker price. How do you know what to pay? Edmunds.com has created a valuable tool for car buyers [...]

10 Steps to Buying a New Car: Using incentives and rebates

2. Using incentives and rebates Today’s new car market is crowded and competitive. Many new cars are offered for sale with attractive incentives to make you choose a particular model. In some cases, the cars with the best incentives are those that aren’t selling very well on their own. An incentive is anything that give [...]

10 Steps to Buying a New Car: Starting out

The following steps will tell you how to locate, price and negotiate to buy the car you want. Remember to consult our glossary if you find words here you don’t understand. 1. Starting out. These steps will help you to find the exact car you want, and at a price that is fair to both [...]

Front-wheel drive (FWD) or rear-wheel drive (RWD)?

Front-wheel drive (FWD) vehicles have a lighter, more compact drive train leaving more room inside for the passengers and cargo. FWD cars also provide better traction when driving on winter roads covered by ice and snow. However, FWD vehicles can be more difficult to service because everything – engine, transaxle (transmission and differential in one [...]

Engine Size

If, for instance, you are a commuter and fuel economy is your primary criterion for picking the right power plant, a small, four-cylinder engine will deliver better mileage than a V6 (but it will also produce less performance). Sometimes, however, a small engine in a large vehicle will produce poor performance and poor fuel economy [...]