What your trade is really worth, how dealers decide, and how to avoid hurting your own deal.

Trade-in values depend on condition, market demand, and reconditioning costs-not secret algorithms or driving data as dealers ...

At the Paris Auto Show many years ago, I met a fellow auto scribe from Quebec. As I spoke with him using what little French I remembered from high school, we became fast friends and he made an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's the age-old question for car owners: maximize a car's trade-in value and replace it early or drive it long term and wait ...

A trade-in is ideal for getting a different vehicle, while refinancing might save you money Written By Written by Staff Loan Writer, Buy Side Bob Haegele is a staff loan writer at Buy Side covering ...

In this column, I mainly focus on buying cars. But there’s another half of the equation, and it’s just as important. The trade-in. Let’s take a look at trading in your old car. Before we get into ...

A Reddit poster wonders if they should keep their car a long time or trade in every few years. There can be pros and cons to each approach. Ultimately, you can make either strategy work as long as you ...

You might be able to trade in a car with negative equity, but it doesn’t always make sense Written By Written by Staff Loans Writer, Buy Side Emily Sherman is a staff loans writer for Buy Side, ...