Looking to buy a good used car? Maybe you should try your local rental car counter.

What's worse than wasting money? Spending it on things that you think make you look good, but really make you look silly.

Justin Bieber can teach you a lot about smart financial moves that look stupid at first.

If you really want to do something about prices at the pump, it's not too late to take the advice I offered on Dec 8, 2010.

Don't let yourself become a victim of the phony claim game. By taking plenty of precautions, as well as pictures, you can tell shifty rental car companies to find a different mark.

It makes no sense, and it costs too much money, to buy your college-bound kid a new car. A used vehicle is not only cheaper, it could be smarter.

If you don't think American-made cars are well-built or worth having, then you need to start hanging out with a car thief or two.

I’ve been doing stories about saving money and avoiding rip-offs for more than 20 years, so you’d think I’d never fall into some stupid fee trap. I wish.

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On a recent trip to New York, I needed to rent a car for one day. The goal was to pick it up at JFK airport and return it the next day to a nearby town about 15 minutes away.

I shopped several rental car sites but ultimately chose Enterprise. While their prices weren’t great ($62.50 for a sub-compact), they were competitive. And most importantly, I knew they had an office in the nearby town where I needed to leave the car.

There was no way to indicate online that I wanted to return the car to a location other than JFK. But rather than do the smart thing – call Enterprise and ask them if there would be an extra fee – I did the dumb thing. I said to myself, “I’m sure there’s going to be a fee for not returning the car to the...

Brett Circe clearly recalls the last time he filled up his Chevy sedan. “It was the day after New Year’s,” he says on this crisp February morning. “The last time I was at a gas station was January 2nd.”

Circe pats his Chevy Volt on the hood and smiles. “When you buy gas, you send money to the Middle East, which we don’t want to do no matter how much a car costs.”

And the Volt costs a lot. The mid-sized sedan starts at $40,280 ($32,780 after the $7,500 Federal tax credit) – much more than Chevy’s other offerings, including the Impala ($24,390), Malibu ($21,975), and even Camaro ($22,680).

That’s one obvious reason you might want to wait before driving electric, but there are others.

5 Reasons not to drive electric – yet 1. Unavailable at any price If you want a Volt, get in line. General Motors says there are 10,000 eager buyers...