Auto Research: New & Used

Constant running battle here at the office -- which is better, cars.com or edmunds.com. Both are packed with valuable information.

Constant debate, too, over the best Web site portal related to cars -- autos.msn.com or autos.yahoo.com. MSN has some really good information on reliability, but Yahoo has the Mother of all Car Information -- stuff from Consumer Reports.

For advice related directly to women, there's one clear champion -- askpatty.com. By women, for women and dedicated to turning car dealerships into certified female-friendly operations.

Auto Loan Advice & Tips

Sometimes the name says it all, such as in betterautoloans.com, the home of the seven-point checklist on how to get a better loan rate.

At autofinancing101.org, you can find valuable information related to avoiding ripoffs. It's run by an outfit called Americans Well-Informed on Automobile Retailing Economics.

If you're looking for the oldest and most established online car loan Web site, see carloan.com, especially for bad credit car loans.

If you have really bad credit you might want to check out this site, and if you're looking for as simple as it gets, you might try car loans made easy dot com.

At Auto Loan Central, a collection of research on the best cars for bad credit history customers.

Car Fun

We love
cars of all
types, including
the collector cars
at this site.

We're a sucker
for concept cars,
too, as you can find
here.

Sometimes, auto sites can be a littlle snarky, as in autoblog.com and thetruthaboutcars.com, but we can't help ourselves from reading.

We're also a big fan of Jeff Ostroff's car buying tips Web site, but we don't link to it any more because he's selling space now to our competitors.