Trading in your car can feel like a game. Here’s how to stay one move ahead and keep more money in your pocket.

This is the highest share Edmunds has reported in four years, meaning a growing number of people are dragging additional debt ...

Edmunds reports that negative equity occurs when car loans exceed vehicle value, impacting many buyers; strategies exist to ...

Wholesale price/trade-in value. This is essentially a car's trade-in value to a dealer, who will likely sell it to someone else for profit. Understandably, the trade-in price is much lower than the ...

More Americans are trading in underwater vehicles. That does not mean the vehicles are submerged. In a sense, the drivers are. More than one in four trade-ins had negative equity in the third quarter ...

Use the 7.6-year benchmark, a $3,000 repair limit, and 150,000 miles to decide—keep a solid car to 10–12 years, or trade before big failures land. Trade-ins average 7.6 years old; vehicle age on U.S.

Build positive equity in your car by using strategies such as making extra payments and refinancing your auto loan Written By Written by Staff Loan Writer, Buy Side Bob Haegele is a staff loan writer ...

That does not mean the vehicles are submerged. In a sense, the drivers are. More than one in four trade-ins had negative equity in the third quarter of 2025, Edmunds reports. In auto industry parlance ...