At the Paris Auto Show many years ago, I met a fellow auto scribe from Quebec. As I spoke with him using what little French I remembered from high school, we became fast friends and he made an ...

Gearing up to buy a new car is an exciting prospect that, for two-thirds of Americans, comes along at least once every five years. Put another way, the average U.S. citizen owns 9.4 new cars during ...

A Reddit poster wonders if they should keep their car a long time or trade in every few years. There can be pros and cons to each approach. Ultimately, you can make either strategy work as long as you ...

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

INDIANAPOLIS — Cars are an asset that typically goes down in value. Ivan Drury, with Edmunds, said just because you spent a lot more money up front does not mean the car retains its value. That is one ...

It's the age-old question for car owners: maximize a car's trade-in value and replace it early or drive it long term and wait until you get that last mile before trading it for a new vehicle. So when ...

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 disturbing trend is unfolding in America’s automotive market: drivers are trading in vehicles after shockingly short ownership periods, often incurring significant losses of tens of thousands of ...

Negotiating with a car dealer can be intimidating, but this thorough guide to the car buying process teaches you how to get ...