used vehicles

August 3, 2024Used Cars

What are the cheapest states to buy used cars?

One of the exciting things about buying a car is that it changes drastically by region. For the overall winner, New Hampshire is one of the best states from the northeast. Here’s why:

– A low number of additional fees and taxes associated with used vehicle purchases

– You are exempt from paying sales tax

– The registration fees are cheap (at most $18 per thousand of total sales)

– New Hampshire has low insurance premiums, with an average of $870 per year

– The low average annual cost of vehicle ownership

This is excellent news for New Hampshire residents

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July 20, 2023Used Cars

EPALFER Portugal Achieves Agile Planning & Bidding

How EPALFER from Portugal shortened their planning and bidding phase

In 2020, EPALFER, a toolmaker based in Portugal dedicated to developing and constructing stamping tools for the automotive industry, made the decision to expand their use of AutoForm software. They wanted to include the extensive planning and bidding functionalities to improve the accuracy of their quoting method and meet increasingly shorter lead times. Currently, they use AutoForm at the beginning of each project to assess the early feasibility of the forming process and provide an initial cost estimate within just a few minutes.

A few years ago, there was a

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May 29, 2023Used Cars

10 Cheap Used Cars With V8 Engines

The V8 engine is special and is one of the most accomplished and respected engine configurations ever. Lots of performance cars came with a V8 engine, and they pretty much defined the muscle car and performance car scene from the 1960s. Take any celebrated muscle car from America, and it will be powered by a big V8 engine that makes some of the best noises even when idling. Move on to the European car culture, and everything from M cars to AMG to Ferrari has been known to use V8 engines. Even luxury cars use V8s as they are smooth

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May 23, 2023Used Cars

Used car prices are surging. Here’s why you should buy now

Well, it was nice while it lasted.

For nearly a year, the average used vehicle in the United States has been edging toward affordable again for millions of people. The relief felt belated and relatively slight, but it was still welcome.

From an eye-watering peak of $31,400 in April of last year, the average price had dropped 14% to $27,125 early this month.

Now, with the supply of used vehicles failing to keep up with robust demand, prices are creeping up again, with signs pointing to further increases ahead. So many buyers have been priced out of the new-car market

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May 20, 2023Used Cars

Car prices show now is one of the worst times to buy

CNN
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It has almost never been as hard to buy a new or used car in the United States as it is today, despite improving supply issues and inflation beginning to steady.

Vehicle transaction prices — the price you actually end up paying after any dealer discounts or markups — have been climbing higher and faster since 2020 than any other point in more than 35 years, according to recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The consumer price indexes for both new and used cars — the average change in vehicle transaction prices over time — are

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April 4, 2023Used Cars

Here’s how to avoid falling victim to mileage rollbacks when buying a used car

The used car pre-purchase inspections I offered customers years ago focused on identifying vehicles that the odometer was rolled back on. I became proficient at being able to date a vehicle by the small tell-tale signs of mileage tampering like fatigued suspension rubber bushings, pitted glass or worn rubber brake pedal pads. But for the last decade, the accessibility to digitalized vehicle history reports and inter-provincial record keeping slowed those who dared to tamper with odometers.

It was easier to get caught and therefore tampering mileage diminished significantly. Today, the unstable used-car market has depleted the inventory of desirable, low-mileage

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