Hawaii's Used Lots Are 6.3% Electric. Missouri's Are 0.8%.
National EV adoption figures hide something a buyer cares about more: whether there are any on the lot near you. I split our used listings by state and the gap between the top and the bottom is eight to one.
A Car's Complaint Count Multiplies by Six Between Year 2 and Year 12
Everyone knows old cars break more. Nobody says by how much or when it starts. I plotted complaints against age across our whole database and the curve has a clear shape — with one step that's much bigger than the rest.
A Motorcycle VIN Has 17 Digits Too. Almost Everything Else Is Different.
I went through our catalog and marked every motorcycle by hand — 918 of them. Decoding a bike VIN works the same way as a car's until you get to the parts that actually matter when buying one.
204 Cars Have Never Been Recalled. That's Not the Compliment It Sounds Like.
A car with no recalls sounds like the safest thing on the lot. I pulled all 204 of them out of our catalog and read the list, and the pattern that came out is nothing to do with how well they were built.
In Colorado, 61% of Used Cars Have Four-Wheel Drive. In Georgia, 31%.
The same model is on sale in every state, but not in the same configuration. I split our listing data by drivetrain and the map that came out explains why the car you want is easy to find in one place and impossible in another.
Your Car Got Older and Cheaper. Your Insurance Went Up 20%.
Depreciation is supposed to make a car cheaper to own every year. I pulled the rate data and found the one line on the ownership bill that moves the opposite way — and it moved fast.
I Priced Every Brand by the Miles It Has Left. RAM Costs Triple What Buick Does.
Everyone compares used cars on price and mileage separately. I combined them into one number — what you pay for every thousand miles the car still has in it — and the brand order came out completely different.
Cars Used to Get Recalled for Headlights. Now It's Cameras.
A recall used to mean something mechanical — a fuel line, a light, a latch. I sorted every campaign in our data by era and watched the subject change completely. What breaks in a modern car is not what broke in an old one.
The Cars People Check Aren't the Cars People Sell
We hold two datasets that rarely get compared: 310,383 cars for sale, and 28,797 VINs people typed into a decoder. Lining them up shows which vehicles buyers worry about — and it isn't a straight reflection of what's on the market.
157 Cars for Sale Have No Title at All. They Average $4,459.
Every so often a listing says "lost title" or "bill of sale only" and the price is a third of what the car should fetch. There are 157 of them in our data, and understanding why they're cheap is a short lesson in how car ownership actually works.
BMW Sells 105 Models. Tesla Sells Six.
Two brands can sit next to each other in a reliability table while running completely different businesses. BMW carries 105 models; Tesla sells six. That single number quietly breaks most rankings you read.
A Plug-In Hybrid Costs $1,118 More a Year to Run Than an EV
The plug-in hybrid is treated as a compromise nobody really wants. Put the running costs side by side and it lands much closer to the electric car than to the petrol one — while sidestepping the two things that make EV ownership awkward.