Getting a car loan during the recession isn’t easy, but it isn’t impossible. Without question, maintaining an excellent credit score is your best defense against being denied financing, but other factors matter as well including:
comparison shopping
putting as much down as possible
weighing your long-term ability to make payments
being scrupulously honest on your application
Additionally, prospective car buyers [...]
Shopping for a car for the holidays? Maybe, just maybe, it’s time to think domestic. Yeah, that’s right. Things are looking up for American car makers, especially for Ford, the only one of the Detroit Big Three to weather the storm without government loans. The 2009 Ford Fusion has edged into the ranks of the [...]
Ford dealers are rolling the first 2010 Taurus and Taurus SHO models on to their showroom floors and the company is hoping for a success equal to that of the epic 1986 Taurus. Put the two side-by-side, however, and you’d be hard pressed to say the vehicles are related, much less bear the same name. [...]
In a bid to regain viability, Ford is bringing the Transit Connect van over from Europe this summer and the model proved to be a hit at the 2009 New York International Auto Show. With boxy, futuristic lines and tons of interior tech amenities, Ford has dubbed this one “Family One.”
Parents may well flutter and [...]
The current economic crisis may prove to be the death of some carmakers and the resurrection of others. From 1999 to 2003, Ford owned a little Norwegian car maker, Think, that produced electric cars. After an investment of about $100 million and the sale of a whopping 400 units, Ford pulled out and sold the [...]
