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There are options for ending your lease early without sacrificing time, effort and, in some cases, money.

Perhaps the most direct way to find out if a car is still under warranty is to contact a dealer for that make of car or the manufacturer itself. But there are other ways.

A pre-purchase car inspection is an important step in determining a used car’s reliability.

Sometimes you can score a great deal on a hail-damaged car, but if you don’t take the proper precautions before finalizing the purchase, there could be hail to pay.

As the average length of a new-vehicle loan has increased to nearly six years, so has the number of buyers who trade in a vehicle with negative equity.

Before you move ahead with it, consider these points to learn how leasing a car works.

Although some dealers have instituted no-haggle pricing, CPO cars seldom carry such stipulations as a whole.

Most automaker finance units and third-party financial institutions will grant a one-time extension of a car lease, generally by 12 months or fewer.

Can you lease a used car? In a word, yes. But there are plenty of ramifications.

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