There’s no way around it. The past year’s news has been dominated by COVID-19. Some of that translated into the most-popular 2020 posts for the Santander Consumer USA blog. But the impact of COVID wasn’t the only thing in which…
More than 40,000 consumer complaints were filed within the first two months of 2014, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), record numbers for any one or two-month period during the bureau’s almost three-year lifespan. But if last year’s…
Average Americans can no longer afford to purchase the average new car or truck, according to a new study by Interest.com. “That’s the sobering result of Interest.com’s 2014 Car Affordability Study, which determined how much the typical household in the…
TrueCar.com and AARP have reached an agreement that may ease AARP members’ worries about whether they are getting the best possible prices on their vehicle purchases. It’s a big deal because AARP’s 37 million members fall in a demographic –…
Many Americans will go car shopping this year with the money they receive in their tax refunds from Uncle Sam. Will you be one of those shoppers in 2014? Tax refunds for 100 million Americans averaged more than $2,650 last…
Google the phrase “buying a used car” and you’ll get some 230 million results. Seems like overkill – especially if you find, as we did, that only about a dozen near the top of the listings provided useful information in…