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Buying Used? How to Avoid Getting Bitten by Repair Costs

(ARA) – If your old clunker is gasping its last, you might think (like millions of other Americans these days) you can save yourself some money by buying a used car instead of a new one. You can — if you make smart buying decisions. Hasty or unwise used-car buying can end up costing you much more in the long run.

As new car sales have crashed, purchases of used cars continue to rise, according to many news reports. In March, PBS reported that dealerships sold more than 2 million used cars in recent months, about 25 percent higher volume than you would expect in a healthy economy. Read the rest of this entry »

Many of today’s latest cars blend right into traffic. Boring, isn’t it? As automotive pundits, we cannot deny the appeal of driving cars that attract attention from other motorists. Pulling up to a stoplight in a

brings big, beaming smiles. Jaws go slack when we roar by in a bright-yellow

. And envy was a common reaction to the

that adorned our parking lot for a few days. We’d witnessed the full scale of emotional reactions to cars, we thought. Read the rest of this entry »