Car shopping in America is miserable right now, and the numbers explain why. The average new car sells for just over $50,000. Prices are up roughly 40% since 2018. The average monthly payment just hit a record $787, and more than one in five buyers now pays over $1,
Let's imagine a client completing the Lanekeep onboarding questionnaire and saying they're seeking a two-row EV, tech-forward, with a budget under $50,000. And let's imagine there's a car I could get them into with these specs, at that price:
Tell me if you've been in this scenario before: you shell out the cash for a brand new iPhone only to watch your battery health drop to 79% in 18 months. Then you receive the dreaded "your battery may need service" notification. Your options? Go to
A client in Colorado texted me just after closing a great lease deal on a Cadillac Optiq. "We never would have known about this model had you not done the work," he said. "I did end up driving the Honda [Prologue] Saturday morning, and we liked it,
Happy Holiday Season from all of us (i.e. me!) at Lanekeep. Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend, and that the drive to wherever you spent it didn't make you swear off cars entirely. For the second straight Thanksgiving, I used Turo, the Airbnb of car rental
This holiday season, while you fill your virtual Amazon cart with gifts (including the myriad algorithmic toy recommendations in the catalog that magically and agonizingly appeared in the mail a few weeks back), you can also go ahead and buy your very own certified pre-owned Ford. That’s right.
Last month was the best month ever for retail sales of electric vehicles, but there’s a big asterisk. EVs made up a whopping 12.9% of the new car market, by far their biggest month ever. But behind this surge were hundreds of thousands of car shoppers rushing to
Remember life before Apple Pay? (I see you, too, Android people, but honestly I don't know what you use. But, remember life before...that?) Checking to make sure you had your bulky wallet somewhere on your person before walking out the door? Also, hoping you didn't
I'm launching something I've been working on for 40 years. When I was 8, my grandmother asked me to help her find a new car. After studying my Car & Driver magazines, I presented her with a ranked list. My top pick? A Ford Taurus SHO.