Several factors affect your car’s value, including its condition, history and market demand. Let’s look at these factors and why they matter to prospective buyers. A vehicle that has never been in an ...

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Knowing your car’s value is an important piece of information. You may use this figure for insurance reasons, when preparing to buy or sell, when preparing to refinance or when calculating your net ...

Car dealers have turned the trade-in into one of their most reliable profit centers, not just by selling your old car, but by ...

In this column, I mainly focus on buying cars. But there’s another half of the equation, and it’s just as important. The trade-in. Let’s take a look at trading in your old car. Before we get into ...

A brand-new car has a high market value at the time of purchase. It may lose value once you drive it off the showroom. Your car's value may decrease as it ages and has more miles driven on it. Even if ...

For many consumers, purchasing a used car is the best way to hit the open road without crushing your budget under the wheels, Mad Max-style. While venturing to a reputable used car dealership or ...

Your car starts to depreciate once you drive it off the dealership and will continue to lose its value over the years. However, the value significantly drops after an accident, even if you get the ...

Johanna Leggatt is the Lead Editor for Forbes Advisor, Australia. She has more than 20 years' experience as a print and digital journalist, including with Australian Associated Press (AAP) and The Sun ...

I wish we all had a military-sized budget for car shopping and no obligation to recoup money by selling our old cars, but that's not the case. If you want to get the most out of your current car and ...

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