Spring is here, and it's the perfect time to discover fresh feelings of adventure.If you are willing to explore your need for speed, then RepoKar is the right place for you! RepoKar is a fun, high-octane online Public Auto Auction where you'r...
If you're a high-school or college student you can't afford one of those luxury brands of cars you might want, and still a car stays a daily need for everyone. Here are some hints on what is a perfect car for a student. This list includes nine cars that college graduates might consider, it includes a Fiat 500X with a starting price of around $21.000, Honda Civic $19.400, Kia Soul $16.700, Scion iA $16.500 and Subaru Crosstrek $22.500. All of these prices are below $33.865 which is an average vehicle transaction price in April, the price is up 2% since April last year.&n...
Car and truck sales spring growth was a bit slower then expected this April. Since 2010 it was the luxury segment, which has led the sales growth. This year the indexes are quite ambiguous in this market section. Of the top-five luxury premium brands, only Audi is up so far for the first four months of 2016. Third-place BMW is down by 9.4 percent, and that doesn’t include the premium Mini brand’s 14.3 percent decline.At the same time American Honda and Nissan group registered the most significant sales growth in this period, which were of 14.4 percent and ...
Auto-auction business has been through a productive period last year. After four years of declines, came four years of increase. More than 9.3 million vehicles were sold in 2015 by National Auto Auction. The prices paid for the sold vehicles reach $90.6 billion in 2015, which is more than the previous record set in 2007 - %90.5 billion. National Auto Auction was offering 16,6 million vehicles to the auction members 55,9% of them got already sold. Even though the average price per vehicle increased from $9368 in 2014 to $9748 in 2015, the buyers didn't lose their interest in...
Japanese airbag manufacturer Takata Corp. is expected to additionally recall around 40 million additional inflators in U.S. vehicles. The expanded recall will be phased in over several years and more than double what is already the largest and most complex auto safety recall in U.S. history. After the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reviewed findings from three outside investigations concerning the defective airbag inflators, Takata had to work on a plan for the expanded callback. The inflators contain propellant that can deploy with too much f...
People like pointing out how dirty the electricity grid mix is after charging electric vehicles. Many love talking about plug-in cars that as they say contribute to pollution. This map from Carnegie Mellon University helps on finding out the cleanest cars based on their location. Researchers have compiled information about the gas emissions of different EVs considering their charge, they compared gasoline-powered vehicles to electric ones. In the research were tested Nissan Leaf, Chevrolet Volt, Prius Plug-In Hybrid versus Toyota Prius hybrid and Mazda 3. By driving a Nissan Leaf in ...
