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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.

Wondering what a car title is and what it looks like? We have the details.

Once your car’s warranty expires, the cost of all repairs comes out of the pockets of owners, and nervousness about that prospect has made buying an extended warranty a popular option.