buying a new car?

Donovan Stallons: In which country were you thinking of buying one?Duh!

Peter Lapoint: Try edmunds.com. They do reveiws on cars, rate them and give you cost advice.

Francis Stickle: I'm a fan of looking at several websites to get comparative data.The National Highway Transportation and Safety Administration (NHTSA) crash tests cars to test for compliance with US safety regulations. You can also get good info on child safety seats and similar things that might interest you there. They have a few tests that are not particularly real-world... but mostly they provide excellent information.The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) also does crash tests. That said... Some of their crash tests are more informative than NHTSA, and some are less informative and less important to most motorists. The thing to remember about IIHS is that they have an ulterior motive, specifically to save money for insurance companies. In the cases where this is consistent wit! h your own interests, then who cares? But sometimes their preference for saving funds related to car repair isn't consistent with saving funds related to personal injury. You'll notice this in that they give lots of data about how much car *repairs* cost, and less about injuries.Lastly, you might look at some of the commercial websites for car buying (Yahoo, cars.com, etc.). Most of them include the summary data from NHTSA and IIHS in their available data. Yahoo has this disturbing feature which tells you the "cost to own" a car over five years, including interest, gas, insurance, depreciation, etc. It's a bit horrifying (some $20,000 cars can actually cost you $45,000 in five years), but very useful.Almost forgot... Look at Fueleconomy.gov for excellent (NOT commercial) summary data. ...no adverts and they provide links to the NHTSA data while you're looking at fuel economy....Show more

Lolita Deschamp: I live in USA...NY