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Financing the purchase of a car is a minefield for consumers at even the best of times. Tricks and traps in the auto marketplace can...
Oct 12, 2020 Report
Since the end of the Great Recession, auto debt has reached historic levels. How'd we get here, and what can we do? Analyst R.J. Cross...
May 7, 2020 Blog Post
Testimony of R.J. Cross, Frontier Group policy analyst, at a hearing on examining discrimination in the automobile loan and insurance industries before the U.S. House...
May 1, 2019 Blog Post
This President’s Day weekend, auto dealers will once again try to lure Americans into showrooms, hoping to attract them with holiday deals. After the...
Feb 15, 2019 Blog Post
In much of America, owning a car is the price of admission to society. Owning a car is also expensive, and drives millions of households...
Feb 13, 2019 Report
In the years since the Great Recession, a torrent of cheap and easy credit has washed over car showrooms and used car lots. Many have...
Feb 15, 2018 Blog Post
Building a less car-dependent transportation system is a necessity not just for the environment, our health and the effective functioning of our cities and towns,...
Apr 28, 2017 Blog PostCheap gas, readily available financing, low interest rates, increasing employment and rising wages have continued to fuel car sales. Now, however, auto industry observers are...
Aug 5, 2016 Blog PostIf you had ever aspired to own a big, luxury SUV or wanted to buy a tricked-out new pickup for work, 2015 has been your...
Dec 14, 2015 Blog PostThe trend toward vehicle leasing is consistent with what appears to be a broader shift to a “rentership society” and may signal that Americans are...
Nov 2, 2015 Blog Post
