New and used car guides and prices on your Pocket PC

[Ed Hansberry]

<a href="http://www.parkers.co.uk/pda/">http://www.parkers.co.uk/pda/</a><br /><br />Those of you in the UK may be familiar with Parkers Online, a site for reviewing, pricing and trading new and used cars. For £6.00 you can download their database from 1993-2002 to your Pocket PC. There is a free trial version. The whole thing is 4MB in size and you can get either pricing updates or review updates for £3.50. It seems all Pocket PCs are supported.

[peterawest]

Edmunds.com is another good site for car information, including pricing, features, reviews, pictures, etc.

I've been downloading the information just for the cars I'm actually considering buying. I use the Avantgo option, but I think it offers other choices too.

It's nice because everything is available on my iPAQ when I visit the car lot to look at the vehicles. :)

http://applications.edmunds.com/avantgo/AvantgoAction

[st63z]

Bought a new car myself earlier this month (yeah!). Lots of good resources on the net for the American consumer :) I searched local paper ads as well as online price engines (Edmunds, GM Buypower, Yahoo Autos, MSN Carpoint, AutoBytel/Autoweb, Consumer Guide, Consumer Reports, CarTrackers, CarPrice, CarPrices, CarsDirect, StoneAge, VehiclesOnline, InvoiceDealers, etc).

Most of the above sites (plus AutoSite) also have excellent info/news for background research. Then there are the mag sites/forums (Motor Trend, Car & Driver, CarSound, etc) for more reviews, user views, aftermarket talks, etc.

Note that talking to an Internet rep of a dealership almost always nets a less stressful experience (taking away the in-your-face sales pitch and all those underhanded tactics). And in my exprience you tend get a pretty OK price right away (though not necessarily always the cheapest).

Anyways, my new car has awakened the love of all things auto...