Looking for an indicator of which brand a prospective car buyer is going to purchase? You might start with what’s already in that customer’s garage — even if the customer changes brands. According to the U.S. Automotive Brand Loyalty Mid-Year 2025 Study from LexisNexis Risk Solutions, households with more than one vehicle can directly impact […] [Read More]

You know that moment when a car is “almost ready,” but every check-in shows it’s still waiting on approvals, parts, or updates? Those small setbacks stack up fast. Vehicles that should have sold in a week can linger in recon, and even a single day of delay per unit can cost several hundred dollars in […] [Read More]

October is spooky season and what may give some consumers a jump-scare is the average price tag they’ll see on a used vehicle. Fortunately for them, the car-buying version of comic relief is sweet trade-in equity. A little more than a week out from Halloween, used-vehicle prices are averaging $29,446 this month, a $473 rise […] [Read More]

Through three quarters of the year, certified pre-owned vehicle sales are beating 2024 figures by nearly 3%, despite a precipitous month-over-month decline in September. That’s according to Cox Automotive, which said in an October analysis citing Motor Intelligence data that there were an estimated 194,020 CPO sales last month. That beat September 2024 figures by […] [Read More]

Retail prices of used vehicles are rising considerably faster than wholesale prices, with the gap between them approaching $15,000. That’s according to J.D. Power’s Used Market Update for October, which found the difference between wholesale and retail used-car prices has moved northward for much of 2025, reaching $14,747 in September. As recently as 2021, the […] [Read More]

Jimmy Douglas, who is the founder of Plug, an online wholesale auction for electric vehicles only, believes the used EV market presents both challenges and opportunities for dealers. Larger numbers of off-lease EVs are returning to the market starting this year, depressing used EV prices and residual values, he said. And on top of that, […] [Read More]

You want to find the least expensive place to buy and own a car. Where are you headed? To the Midwest, according to a study by National Business Capital. The business lending platform’s analysis of the full cost of buying and owning a typical vehicle — from the purchase price, sales tax and insurance to […] [Read More]

The American Dream used to include owning a home and buying a new car. But according to a survey conducted in September by banking and financial services provider Santander US, that dream has shifted for middle-class Americans, who now see renting and used cars as their path to financial security. The quarterly survey of 2,216 […] [Read More]

The number is vehicles recalled in the U.S. has been rising steadily. The latest Recall Report from recall management platform BizzyCar found automakers issued 96 recall campaigns in the third quarter of 2025, covering nearly 8.5 million vehicles, the most since Q1 2024. That’s up 16% from Q2, when recalled vehicles spiked to 7.3 million, […] [Read More]

When it comes to cars, old is in. In its Q3 2025 Quarterly Review, CarGurus found auto sales overall are holding up in the face of economic and affordability pressures, but the U.S. market has shifted toward older vehicles as consumers adjust to make the finances work. “On the whole, new- and used-vehicle demand has […] [Read More]