Kia Optima

A more attractive take than Hyundai’s frowny new Sonata, the 2021 K5 is plenty competitive, but the disparity between available touchscreen systems is a missed opportunity.

New-car sales are coming off a dour second quarter due to the ongoing pandemic, and incentives remain readily available for July.

Kia’s Optima mid-size sedan is reimagined for 2021 as the K5, borrowing the name from the Korean version of the car.

As the nation slowly reopens amid the COVID-19 pandemic, automakers continue to pour on the discounts heading into June.

The offers we covered in our roundup of the 10 best Memorial Day new-car deals, Cars.com’s most popular news article of the past week, extend through June 1.

To look for Memorial Day car deals during the coronavirus pandemic, we surveyed relatively popular models for advertised factory cash discounts and low-interest-rate financing offers.

Several of the automakers with financing deals we’ve highlighted already have extended their offers’ expiration dates.

For the most part, automakers are offering financing relief on payment options in May, but there are still a few cash deals to be had on vehicles, too.

Half of our 10 most popular news articles from April are directly related to car buying during the ongoing global health crisis.

Our comparison test of two popular three-row SUVs was among the past week’s most-read stories, just behind two stories on car deals.