Here Are The Best Car Buying Stories Of The Week

A woman in Knoxville, Tennessee had to turn to a local news station’s “Help Me” consumer affairs guy after a used car dealership sold her Ford Taurus out from under her after she brought it in for repairs. If that wasn’t bad enough, months later, the car was still registered in her name. For just one day, I’d really like car dealers to not be like this. - Andy Kalmowitz Read More

Chevrolet built three incredible generations of its iconic Corvette between 1984 and 2013, called the C4, C5 and C6. If you’re a prospective Corvette buyer, depreciation is your friend. When these cars launched, they were top-of-the-line American sports cars with expensive price tags, but with age they’ve dropped into the approachable for the everyperson price range. Even a base model of the C6 generation can be found for under $20,000 these days, when it was more than double that at launch. - Bradley Brownell Read More

If you’re like me, you may be still mourning the end of production of the Ford Focus RS. It was legitimately one of the best hot hatches ever made. Its short 2016–2018 run meant not many people got a chance to get their hands on one, and high dealer markups didn’t help. Now, over five years after it ended production, Focus RS’ are showing up for cheap on the used market — so cheap that any enthusiast on a budget should be looking at them right now. - Lawrence Hodge Read More

We found out why Toyota’s twin-turbo V6s have been grenadeing themselves in 2022-2023 Tundras and Lexus LXs earlier this month, but there’s still no real fix for the issue. Now it seems car dealers are staying away from the once bullet-proof trucks. - Andy Kalmowitz Read More

It sure looks like a lot of people are taking delivery of their brand-new Tesla Cybertruck, realizing it is sort of ass and promptly listing it for sale. That, or they’re losers who bought them just to flip. Regardless of the reason, there are currently 232 nearly-new Cybertrucks listed for sale. Doing some rough math (adding together a new Electrek report that Tesla delivered about 3,000 Cybertrucks in May and an April report that Tesla had sold 3,878 of the trucks up until that point) we can reasonably assume Tesla has sold somewhere in the neighborhood of 6,500 trucks so far since its launch back in November of 2023 – meaning just about 4 percent of all Cybertrucks ever built are on Autotrader alone right now. - Andy Kalmowitz Read More

Car dealers have done some pretty despicable things in recent years, including piling on sky-high charges on every car sold and even selling a car that its owner had simply brought in for a few repairs. Now, a Kentucky Ford dealer has been given its comeuppance after it sold a smashed up truck as a brand new car. - Owen Bellwood Read More

After showing a near production ready concept in 2021, BMW debuted the XM to gasps in 2022. It looked like nothing else on the road. Just over two years on the market and something about the XM seems to keep buyers away, so much so that BMW is throwing some big discounts on the hood to try and move some of these performance plug-in hybrids. - Lawrence Hodge Read More

I try to keep a close eye on Bring A Trailer. It may seem like the era of cars going for wild prices is at an end, but that’s not true — things just calmed down a bit. Wild auctions are still happening on the site, be it a flip or someone who thinks a near-100,000-mile Honda Element is worth more than $10,000. For example, take this latest listing for a 20-year-old Oldsmobile. - Lawrence Hodge Read More

This week’s reader is restarting his life and has a $30,000 budget for a fun car for long drives.

Today’s Nice Price or No Dice Starion comes from the golden age of Japanese performance coupes. Let’s decide if this clean machine still has what it takes. - Rob Emslie Read More