The internet is inherently deceptive. While I know most of you assume I write from a luxurious, sumptuously upholstered cabin in a perpetually globe-circling zeppelin, the truth is that I’m usually stationed on a damp mattress crammed into the back of a wrecked Econoline. In much the same way, a car buying website…
I’ll admit, I’m pretty jealous that Edmunds was able to get ahold of an actual 2016 Tartan Prancer to test against a Honda Odyssey. The Prancer has so many qualities I love in cars: vanhood, mid-enginery, fictitiousness — I don’t see how the Honda mobile yawn-distillery can compare. But that’s just what Edmunds does.
Not long ago the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) made a video to tell consumers how "misguided" there were to think that Tesla's direct sales model was that better than the franchise model. Now the NADA wants to tell you how wonderful it is to negotiate your car deal.
For the longest time common knowledge said, "Dealers make all their money on used cars." While there is still profit to be had in the pre-owned market, the days of six or seven thousand dollar markups are gone. So when you are used car shopping focus on the value more than the discount.
Edmund's recently released this ad that highlights how ridiculous it would be to shop for your groceries the same way you shop for a car. Many dealerships lost their collective shit and pressured Edmund's to take the ad down... and they did.
After nearly a year and a half of dutiful service, Edmunds has sold its long-term Model S, and the postmortem on their time with the Tesla proves, once again, that building a car from scratch is hard.
As we read yesterday, a good portion of the population would rather give up sex or do all kinds of unpleasant things rather than negotiate with dealerships to buy a car. With this type of aversion to the auto purchasing process it is no wonder Tesla's direct sales model has struck a chord with consumers, and faced so…
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Aug. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — The coming weeks should be a sweet spot for shoppers looking for the best deals of the year on a new car, advises Edmunds.com, the premier resource for car shopping and automotive information. The reason, says Edmunds, is that dealers generally accelerate sales of…
Edmunds has a new CEO and will launch TV ads to compete with those creepy ones from Cars.com and those sexist ones from TrueCar.
You can see the whole exchange here, but I guess Edmunds wanted to do a 'Vette v. Viper comparison (original!) and couldn't get a car in time or something.
Edmunds.com, one of the web's leading resources for car-buying research and long-term Buick Regal Grand National tests, filed a lawsuit against a Texas company it says registered more than 2,200 fake online profiles that submitted reviews of car dealerships. Edmunds isn't happy about it, and now they're going to…
What do we mean when we say Jalopnik is for "auto enthusiasts" and not a boring exercise in new car buyer lead generation? It means we'd never produce the list Edmunds Inside Line cranked out of the "100 Worst Cars of All Time." It's a list so anti-enthusiast it should just be titled "We're going to kick people who…
Edmunds' Inside Line editor Karl Brauer put $4.16 of electricity in his Chevy Volt, then hit a long, climbing California road. At 25.8 miles, the battery was spent, an energy-mile per dollar equation similar to a full-size pickup.
InsideLine got a redesign, moving from the early 2000s to a more Autoblog-barfed-on-TTAC look. [InsideLine]
Edmunds, the greatest American heroes since Nelly Bly, have saved the world from Cash For Clunkers problems by posting the tough questions and sending the hardest of hard-hitting press releases.
Does Edmunds Straightline not understand the difference between planned and panicked engineering? Just curious. [Straightline]
OK, we're calling bullshit on the muscle car "comparisons" being run by everyone from MotorTrend to Popular Mechanics. Sorry, but it ain't a real comparison until you've run 'em in one place at one time.
A guy named Ed that works for Edmunds Inside Line (we suspect nepotism) just got back from driving the 2008 Dodge Viper ACR to Bonneville. There, he discovered that driving really fast in a straight line, at least in a twitchy track special on the salt, is a lot harder than it looks. If we'd been there, we'd have told…
As much as it may hurt to have to fill up your car every month (or week), the price of gas still isn't high enough to make trading in for a hybrid a reasonable solution for most, a reality punctuated by the Gas-Mileage Savings Calculator from Edmunds. The calculator takes the value of a trade-in compared to the cost…
Edmunds Inside Line joins the anti-embargo fight on the 2008 Dodge Challenger SRT8. Go Line on the Inside! [Edmunds Inside Line]