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Prepare to Purchase
Sell/Trade Your Vehicle
Obtain Lease or Loan
Insure Your Vehicle
Maintain Your Vehicle
Calculators
"How much vehicle can I afford?"
(Wachovia)
Should I take the rebate or special offer financing?
(State Farm)
How much will my monthly payments be?
(State Farm)
Monthly auto loan calculator
with
extra payments calculator
Negative equity payment calculator
(rolling previous loan balance into new loan)
Rebate verus interest rate calculator
What's the true cost of the lease?
(Bankrate)
Tools
"How much will the insurance cost? "
(InsWeb)
"How much will the insurance cost? "
(Insurance.com)
Get the retail price for your trade-in
(
CarMax
,
Cars.com
,
Autobytel
, or
Edmunds
)
Get the wholesale price for your trade-in
(
Kelley Blue Book
, or
NADA
)
Check current lending rates at
Bankrate
Research your car (
Edmunds
,
MSNAutos
, or
USAToday
)
For a used car, check its history at
CarFax.com
Visit online lenders at
E-Loan
and
Capital One Finance
Articles for vehicle ownership - Vehicle lease/loan - 2007 and earlier years
Longer car loan can handcuff buyer
Escaping a car lease gets easier
Auto leasing do's and dont's
Shorter car loans are less 'interest-ing'
Top 10 auto loan mistakes
Car-lease ads sound too good
ABCs of a great car loan
Close the gap in your car insurance
(get gap insurance when you buy or lease a car)
How to avoid car-financing traps
Will the loan outlive the car?
Making wise decisions when picking a car loan
9 ways to avoid, correct upside down car loans
Car loans keep getting longer
Upside down in a car loan
Stupid auto financing tricks
Get your "new" credit score before you buy a loan
Auto leasing finds new lease on life
Should you buy or lease that new vehicle?
New cars lose value quickly
Crash course in auto financing (gap insurance)
Car loans and credit cards
Topsy-turvy. Too many car buyers are discovering they are upside-down