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8 Cool Winter Cars for Every Budget
The weather outside is frightful, but choose the right car and driving in winter can still be delightful. Our selection below covers a range of budgets and types of cars that, when combined with a good set of winter tyres, will keep you moving when the weather turns nasty. Up to £5000: Subaru Impreza Subarus…
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Take Your Pick: 10 Diverse Family Cars for £10,000
Car-buyers have never had so much choice. To prove as much we’ve taken a £10,000 budget and picked 10 examples from CarGurus that despite looking like a diverse bunch would all make great family cars. Question is, which one takes your fancy? The Hatchback: Kia Cee’d If there’s such a thing as a traditional style…
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Five of the Cheapest Future Classics Money Can Buy
When talk turns to investing in cars one tends to think of barn find Jaguars or Ferraris polished to within an inch of their life. However, it is perfectly possible to buy a car that has a chance of increasing in value without needing a huge stack of bank notes to start with. That’s where…
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When Heart Rules Head: Five Romantic Rides for Valentine’s Day
Whether you regard Valentine’s day as the perfect opportunity to shower you loved one with presents, or a commercial juggernaut whose only purpose is to keep florists afloat through the winter, there’s no harm in indulging in a little internet-based distraction to mark the occasion. With that in mind we’ve been diligently scouring the CarGurus…
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Car Finance: The Basics
Confession time: it didn’t come as a complete shock that not everybody in our recent survey about car finance didn’t understand the ins and outs of how it all works. However, we were surprised at the level of confusion around what is for a lot of people the second-biggest monthly outgoing after rent or mortgage.…
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Should I Buy an ex-PCP or ex-Hire Car?
We hear plenty about the advantages of PCP deals as far as new car buyers are concerned, but such schemes can also be of benefit to the used car buyer. That’s because they provide dealers with a steady stream of used car stock as buyers move from one PCP deal to the next.  Pay to…
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The used electric cars going UP in value
Wouldn’t it would be great if you could buy a used car, run it for 12 months and 10,000 miles and then sell it on for a profit? Research by car valuation specialists cap hpi suggests that this can indeed be a reality – but only if you opt for an electric vehicle (EV). Cap hpi’s…
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Geneva motor show: Five great cars, five years on
As the Geneva motor show rolls into town this week, we thought it might be fun to see how five of the show’s star cars from five years ago are faring on the used car market now that time and familiarity have played their part. Why five years? Quite simply because the 2013 Geneva show…
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Automotive Easter Eggs: Cars with Hidden Surprises
For your enjoyment, here are some of our favourites automotive Easter eggs, plus a few features that are just plain helpful.
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New to the Used Market: Volvo XC40
As the first used example of the Volvo XC40 arrives on CarGurus, we thought it was worth reflecting on just why this SUV has created such a buzz. After all, not so long ago the arrival of a new Volvo was greeted with all the anticipation of the opening of a bank statement, and yet here…
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£1000 Wonders: Why Cheap Doesn’t Mean Terrible
It goes without saying that a car costing £1000 is not going to be as good as one worth ten times that price. Whether or not it is 10 times worse, however, is another matter. So it is that we say welcome to the world of £1000 wonders, where our job is to search the…
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First Wheels: Ford Ka Buying Guide
As somebody whose first car cost a mere £450, it seems amazing to fathom that new drivers today fork out an average of £4,627 on their entry into the world of automobile ownership. That, however, is the figure uncovered in our latest research, which sought to find out how the amount drivers spend on their…
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New to the Used Market: Jaguar E-Pace
It is telling of just how dominant SUVs have become that even Jaguar, a company renowned for its saloons and sports cars, predicts its best selling model will soon be a family-sized crossover that shares its core underpinnings with a Land Rover. That car is the E-Pace, which stormed into the new car market at…
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7 things about older cars you’ve probably forgotten
Learning to drive these days must be so easy. Sure, the roads are more congested than ever and, yeah OK, the test itself is considerably tougher. But in modern cars almost everything is power assisted or automated or connected or, you know, reliable, which in turn removes much of the challenge.  To prove as much…
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History Guide: Ford Focus
It is difficult to overstate the importance of the original Ford Focus. For starters it replaced the Escort, which although somewhat stale by the late 1990s, was still one of the most recognisable cars on the road. Not only that, but the Focus was Ford’s entry into the hugely popular family car segment, a true…
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The CarGurus Guide to Buying a Used Van
We don’t just list used cars for sale on CarGurus, but vans too. But how do you know what van is best for your business, how much is fair to pay and what features to look for? In this guide we’ve answered exactly those questions, and a few more besides. WHAT TO BUY What van…
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Open Season: Exploring the 9 Different Types of Convertible
If you’ve spent the past few days looking at that strange yellow ball in the sky and wondering if life might not be better behind the wheel of a convertible you are not alone. But what kind of drop-top should you buy? Below we’ve separated the market into the different types of convertible on sale.…
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History Guide: Mercedes-Benz A-Class
When Mercedes-Benz pulled the wraps off its all-new, fourth-generation A-Class earlier this year the story was all about its revolutionary interior. For here is a small executive car with the technology and appearance to match the world’s best luxury motors. Rewind to 1997 and the debut of the original A-Class and the story was also…
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Enjoy them while you can: 6 Car Features That’ll Soon Be Extinct (and one that we hope stays)
Progress is a wonderful thing, but with it comes the inevitable need to say farewell to those things with which we have become familiar. In automotive terms this could eventually include the internal combustion engine and even the ability to drive a car yourself, but even the most optimistic estimates put those kind of shifts…
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New to the Used Market: Jaguar XF Sportbrake
The poor old estate car has come in for a tough time of it in recent years. The problem has nothing to do with the products themselves, which continue to improve with every generation, but with buyers discovering something they deem to be better. That something of course is the SUV, a type of car…
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MOT Changes for 2018 Explained
If you live in the UK and own a car that’s over three years old then it is more than likely to be one of the 30 million that goes through an annual MOT test to ensure it is in roadworthy condition. But did you know that on May 20 2018 the rules surrounding the…
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Bizarre Cars: The Bulletproof Skoda and Honda’s Hot Pickup
Building cars is a very serious business, but that doesn’t mean those involved can’t also be permitted to have fun every now and again. How else do you think we’d have ended up being able to buy machines as bizarre as the Renault Clio V6 or BMW M4 GTS, the purpose of which is inevitably…
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New to the Used Market: 2018 MINI
There was an awful lot that could’ve gone wrong when, almost 20 years ago, BMW relaunched MINI. Yet from the retro-inspired styling to the UK-based Plant Oxford production facility, the modern MINI has in fact been a complete triumph, serving as a masterclass in how to make an old brand relevant to new consumers. Admittedly,…
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History Guide: BMW MINI
There are many impressive aspects to the way BMW has handled the relaunch of the Mini – sorry MINI – brand, but perhaps most amazing of all is that it never seems to run out of ideas. Take the latest facelift of the 2018 MINI as an example, where the innovations include intelligent LED Matrix headlights…
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New to the Used Market: 2018 Audi RS4 Avant
Are there any other manufacturers that do the whole super-fast estate thing as well as Audi? Certainly none have been at it for as long, with the first seriously rapid RS Audi wagon dating back to the RS2 of 1994 (even if it was co-developed with Porsche). Next in line, in 1999, was the very…
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Top Tips For Driving in a Heatwave
There’s more to driving in a heatwave than cranking up the air-conditioning and hoping for the best. In this short guide CarGurus offers a few simple tips for helping you, your passengers and your car cope with the current sweltering conditions. COOLANT A engine’s coolant system is sealed so it shouldn’t need topping up between services.…
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New to the Used Market: Volkswagen up! GTI
Ask any car manufacturer where its performance models are most popular and the answer will almost always be the UK. We are a nation of fast car – and in particular hot hatch – addicts, a point well and truly demonstrated by the fact that Volkswagen UK’s director, Alison Jones, this week told us that…