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]

According to iSeeCars’ analysis, the average vehicle on the road has just a 4.8% chance of making it to 250,000 miles. But not all vehicles are average. The automotive search engine and research website has released its latest study to determine the longest-lasting vehicles on the market, a list topped by four Toyotas that all […] [Read More]

Black Book is asking the same question you and your colleagues at your dealership or finance company might be considering. How much industry juice are electric vehicles going to lose now that the federal tax credits have expired? Those federal EV incentives hit their sunset last week when Black Book watched overall wholesale values drop […] [Read More]

As September and the third quarter ended last week, so did federal tax incentives on electric vehicles. That and other goings-on in Washington appeared to have some impact on the overall automotive market and were top-of-mind in the monthly vehicle value indices released by Black Book and Cox Automotive this week. Starting with Black Book’s […] [Read More]