An open marketplace for new and used cars, providing car buyers with access to more than 2.5 million vehicles for sale in the United States and a new set of search and filter tools to more easily find a car that fits their needs.
The AOL Autos used car marketplace features a new intuitive search function that enables users to search for used, certified pre-owned, and private-seller listed cars using natural language queries (e.g., "black Honda Civic"). Users can filter results based on make, model, price, body style and more, resulting in more relevant listings.
In the coming months, additional enhancements to the site will include Spanish language listings, video listings and more posting services for sellers.
Billed as "The Ultimate Automotive Buyer's Guide", it is a helpful site for choosing, buying, repairing or selling a car. A commercial site, but with a great deal of free content
Whether you're buying, selling, or just researching a car, this is a great place to look. "Yahoo Internet Life" calls this the best used car web site.
A large Automotive Research site (with in-depth New and Used Vehicle Reviews, Photos, as well as User Forums, Blogs, a Wiki Based engine, etc.) Well worth a look!
PR Newswire calls this website, "the largest independent retailer of car audio and wireless products in the United States"
Ranked as one of the very best automotive online buying sites.
Edmund's Automobile Buyer's Guides
One of the most authoritative sources for prices on new and used vehicles, but also includes results of road tests (both standard and long-haul) and reviews. You can check their Carfax database of over 600,000,000 vehicle records to see if there is a potential problem with a used vehicle.
Why buy when you can lease? Take a look at this website recommended by On magazine.
Kelley Blue Book New & Used Car price Reports.
New and used car prices, a small but high-quality directory of important car sites.
NADA (NAt'l Automoile Dealers Assoc.)
Search NADA's Dealer Inventory of New & Used Cars & Trucks; Find your local NADA Dealer; Find Car Reviews, Consumer Tips, Vehicle History Reports Build, Research & Compare New Cars & Trucks Site Includes Values, Specifications & Information for: New & Used Cars & Trucks Classic, Collectible & Special Interest Cars Motorcycles, Snowmobiles, ATVs & Personal Watercraft Boats: Power & Sail, Recreation Vehicles, Aircraft, and Manufactured Housing.
An online automotive encyclopedia. Check the Consumer Incentives and Rebates, Negotiating Tips, and the Warranty, Repair and Service Tips. One of the few sites to have information from owners on tire buying.
A one-stop informational experience. Among items of interest, this site rates depreciation value of used cars by year and mileage, and it provides factory-direct invoice and wholesale pricing, retail and trade-in pricing reports.
From the famous magazine, offers browsing by make, price range, etc.
Offers clear instructions on how to avoid unscrupulous dealers and negotiate a good price. Excellent links to all sorts of informative resources. Be sure to look at their page that lists the Top 10 Car Dealer Scams! Quite useful, as well as entertaining in a horrifying sort of way.
An authoritative source for history reports on used vehicles. Enter a vehicle identification number and, for $15, you will find out all about any salvage history, odometer fraud, multiple owners, flood damage, major accident damage, or fire damage.
A.I.N.'s automotive portal site. Buy / Sell, check our insurance, invoice, finance costs, warranties, and even a Lemon Check. Available en espanol as well.
CarsDirect recently aquired Greenlight to create an award-winning site on which you can research and compare cars, financing, warranties, and trade-ins.
Cars: Vehicle and Equipment Information
Offers a searchable database of recalls, technical service bulletins, consumer complaints, and compliance investigations. From the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Over a million real users' opinions, advice, and ratings of cars and RVs. Fortunately, readers rate the uefulness of the available opinions as well.
Are you and the new car you're interested in compatible? Fill out a brief questionnaire on this website and see what cars best meet your needs.
A very high-quality site, frequently quoted in luxury car ads. This site bases its findings on the experiences of millions of consumers, and annually gives out its famous awards for excellent automotive products and services. The sole disadvantage of this site is its "stickiness" or persistence— due to its javascript, your browser's back button may not get you out of it and you will have to click on your browser's home button.
Bob, Ken and their team of auto repair specialists have answered car repair questions online since 1998. Their mission is to provide you with information that can help you solve your car problem quickly. Their online database contains thousands of previously answered car repair questions.
AllData Automotive Repair Library
This resource is paid for by your tax dollars. Due to vendor restrictions, these resources are available only if you are coming in through an authorized access point: either by dialing into Library's modem pool using your free Metro Net account, or using a computer within the Library. If you receive a request for a password, that means you are not connecting from an authorized Library access point.
Now you have access to the most comprehensive Diagnostic, Repair and Maintenance information that Professional Automotive Technicians have been using for over a Decade. This invaluable information is also updated Quarterly, unlike a printed repair manual.
Whether you troubleshoot and fix the problem yourself, or if you rely on your favorite automotive technician, this is the most comprehensive resource for the Auto Enthusiast on the Internet. Covering all domestic and foreign models going back to 1982, and is also updated Quarterly, unlike a printed repair manual.
AllData provides instant access to all Factory Recall and Technical Service Bulletins (TSB), as well as Information that addresses safety, reliability, performance and comfort related problems with your car, special Warranty provisions and extensions, fixes for common problems and updated factory repair procedures, illustrated Diagnosis and Repair Procedures, OEM Part Numbers, Diagnostic Charts and Trouble Codes, Component Locations and Diagrams, and Factory Maintenance Schedules. You even have the ability to print out wiring diagrams in 8½X11 format.
Matthew Wright, site editor, promotes "automotive empwerment"&mdaash;learning about your car so you can either fix it yourself or understand what repairs are really needed to save money and avoid "upselling".
The web site for Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers (AKA as Tom and Ray Magliozzi). The funny, informative PBS car care show is online!
ChiltonLibrary provides exclusive photographs, diagnostics designed by instructors, step-by-step repair procedures, Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) maintenance schedules, wiring diagrams, recalls and Technical Service Bulletins (TSBs) for automobiles and light trucks in one easy-to-use web site. Since this library subscribes to ChiltonLibrary, you are now equipped with decades of data to maintain your vehicle. Just begin by choosing a vehicle at the left and a subject above.
George Scott, Jr. started this web site 10 years ago, to share his knowledge of car repairs with the world: he has been fixing cars in Gainesville, FL since 1976.
Human selectors and topical experts stand behind these links for auto buyers and owners.
The Open Directory Project, like most of the resources in this section, relies on human selectors for the linked sites rather than an automated spider. This page offers a wide array of links under 11 major topics, plus a set of See Also links.
Automotive Information from the Michigan eLibrary
A site that is consistent with MeL's high level of quality selection, offering many resources on every facet of automotive information.
Cars from the Librarians' Internet Index
182 annotated links of great quality hand-picked by knowledgeable librarians amd posted by the U. of C. Berkeley's SunSITE.
Digital Librarian: Cars and Other Vehicles
A very fine collection of carefully-screened resources maintained by Margaret Vail Anderson, a Librarian.
An incredible site which includes, but goes far beyond, prices. Car reviews, safety reports, comparisons, reliability charts and an interactive national database of dealers.