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Here is this week’s Used Car Market from Ricky Beggs and Black Book. As the calendar is about to put April in the history books, one might be wondering how much of the spring market remains. With the various comments from the Black Book survey personnel around the country indicating a more stable market in most cases, the only questionable retention and more hesitant interest was focused around the remarketing of the rental cars. Several…

Following is the latest Used Car Market Report from Black Book.  It seems that price is the value driver in the market information from this past week. There have been reporting periods where slightly more Average condition vehicles than Clean were adjusted and generally with more increasing adjustments on the Average condition units. This past week was the strongest example of this. More than 216 Average condition…

AAA recently unveiled its 2013 annual study in the cost of ownership for the typical sedan, available at AAA’s “Your Driving Costs” study, which revealed a nearly 2% increase in the cost to own and operate a sedan in the U.S. This report must raise a few…

Small cars aren’t typically synonymous with leasing. Rather, it’s usually luxury vehicles and trucks consuming the lease contracts. However, Swapalease.com has some new data that might show that more people are leasing smaller cars.



The Ford Focus was recently named the …

Here is the latest used car market report from Ricky Beggs and Black Book. Gas prices continue to fall, but only $.015 this past week. At least we are $.24 less than a year ago. I wish I could say the decline at the pump was directly driving the market, but at this point this is an afterthought. The overall strength is really based on less than full…