Used Car Shortage Makes New Cars the Better Deal

A large percentage of the used cars on the market come from returned leases, with the largest part of those being three year leases. CNN Money cites a poll by R.R. Polk and Company that shows why we may see used car prices shifting into overdrive in the next year or two.  Between June and November of 2008 automobile leases fell by 58% across the board... Since that's just exactly three years ago, that's the period that would be feeding returned lease cars into the used car market right now.
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A Hybrid by any Other Name

With gas prices increasingly becoming a popular topic of discussion across America, it's no wonder that better gas mileage is a hot topic in Detroit. Even so, says a study commissioned by Johnson Controls, a maker of high-tech batteries used in hybrid vehicles, the pain at the pump isn't enough yet to start moving mainstream consumers toward hybrid vehicles. That, says the report, won't happen until the price per gallon is somewhere between $4 -$5. Despite the results of that survey, consumers definitely want better gas mileage even if they aren't ready to make the leap to a full-fledged hybrid vehicle.

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Buying American? Are You Sure?

It's no secret that most automobiles these days have parts made in a wide variety of countries regardless of where the car itself is finally assembled. The Big Three U.S. carmakers were born and raised right here in the good old U.S. of A., but are they still the most American of the major automakers?
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Would You Like a Solar Panel with your New Car?

While electric vehicles have the potential to be cleaner and greener than gasoline powered vehicles, as long as they rely on coal and oil fired electrical power plants, some may argue that all their really doing is moving the source of the pollution a little further down the road. While the reduction in automobile emissions may mean cleaner air for city-dwellers, roughly the same amount of emissions will be generated at the ultimate source of the electricity being used to charge these cars.
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