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Papers
- 10 Discounted Cars to Avoid (U.S. News)
"A few discontinued models will be great buys. Others may be deeply discounted—but still not worth the money. To determine which discontinued models are the weakest, I asked the analysts at car-research site KBB.com to first identify models likely to be discontinued over the next couple of years. For some of these models, the manufacturers have confirmed that the car is being axed; others made the list because of strong indicators that they're being discontinued, such as manufacturing changes or declining shipments to dealers. KBB then predicted the residual value of each of those models in five years—the amount it's likely to be worth, expressed as a percentage of its original list price." 12-09
- Compare Cars (Edmunds.com)
Provides a comparison of up to four automobiles at a time. 12-12
- Compare Cars (Intellichoice.com)
Provides a comparison of automobiles. 12-09
- Compare Cars (Kelley Blue Book)
Provides MSRP and invoice values of new and used cars. 12-09
- Most Reliable Cars (Gizmag.com)
"As a privately owned insurance intermediary, the firm collects lots of data about warranty issues – something you'll never find out from the only other people who have access to the information (the manufacturers). In a very clever move, it has taken this secondary data and produced a reliability index – an independent comparison of frequency of failure across the 55,000 vehicles it insures. Read on for a list of the 100 most reliable used cars over the past decade. And before you take a peek, have a guess at where the best Japanese, German, Swedish, British, Korean and French-built cars will rank. You won't even come close!" 06-11
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