Below are listed several online auto price guides.
The information within these guides is presented to assist you in
assessing the value of your own or another vehicle.
The coverage, presentation and method by which
the vehicle values are determined and/or displayed. for this reason,
whenever possible, it is best to use more than one source in assessing
the value of any vehicle and then evaluate the combined results
to assign a final value.
Many of the guides listed below also provide
reviews, buying guides, and other consumer product information.
Nor is this list comprehensive; there are other sites with similar
databases; however, the ones listed here are among the most popular
and comprehensive.
Finally, note that most of these price guides
as well as a several others (such as The Old Car Price Guide)
are available in printed format either at the newsstand and/or by
subscription.
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Cars Direct offers information on dealer
invoice prices and has a break down of all the options and prices.
It lists an option with both the MSRP and dealer cost. This
is good information if you are going to add a lot of options
on to your car.
This guides takes an unusual approach. You
enter a year, make, model and optional region, and it returns
the high, low and average prices for similar cars within its
database of current ads.
The CPI guide alloys value searches back
to 1945 by multiple make and model. Of the three levels presented
in the printed edition (Fair, Good, and Excellent), only the
middle value is displayed online. This is only of marginal value
to some users.
This site provides pricing on both new and
used vehicles as well as other auto-related info. The pricing
database can be searched by a very wide variety of options including
year, body style, EPA ratings, horsepower, and other features.
Kelley provides detailed evaluations for
both retail and trade-in value by make and model for cars up
to 20 years of age. New car price information is also available.
These are very detailed (and more time-consuming
to use) guides for car prices as far back as 1930. Prices are
provided by year, make and model with allowance for special
options. There are also guides for vans, trucks, conversions,
limos, RVs, and even marine and aircraft - but these do not
date back as far as the auto guide.
Only one of these popular guides is
online, the one for classic cars and trucks from 1946-1979.
This provides prices by make and model by condition number 1
to 5 with adjustments for special features.
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