Buying/Leasing
Seven-Year Loan Terms Hurt Car Buyers The current economy makes it difficult to project your long-term financial situation leaving many consumers, especially minorites, in compromising position before the loans end.
The current economy makes it difficult to project your long-term financial situation leaving many consumers, especially minorites, in compromising position before the loans end.
Soaring prices at the gas pumps. Mortgage meltdowns. Wall Street investment fund titans sold at fire-sale prices. Faced with stormy financial seas, what can the individual motorist do to protect his or her pocketbook? For answers, we knew just the guru to go to: Carla J. Cargle.
While that extra insurance against repair bills has a poor return on investment in most cases, it's a big profit generator for dealers, research by Consumer Reports shows.
(originally posted December 2005)
Smart independent, and savvy, single black women often care for children and/or aging parents while holding down a job or two. They even go back to school to further their careers, while still finding the energy to enjoy life, despite so many incredible demands on their time and finances.
Consumer Reports' latest survey findings identify many used-car models that provide good reliability. Many can also be safe, fuel-efficient, and affordable.
Don't look now, but loopholes in the tax regulations that make big sport utility vehicles attractive write-offs could be going bye-bye.
