Drivers always risk being backed into a financial tight spot if they want to buy a new car just a year or two after taking out a car loan. Odds are pretty good — especially if they had a small down ...

If you have a car loan, we have a math assignment for you. Find an online car value calculator. Figure out how much your vehicle is worth. Then look up your loan balance and compare that number to ...

Longer auto loans and repeated trade-ins can leave borrowers rolling negative equity from one vehicle to the next.

That does not mean the vehicles are submerged. In a sense, the drivers are. More than one in four trade-ins had negative equity in the third quarter of 2025, Edmunds reports. In auto industry parlance ...

A growing share of car owners are underwater on their auto loans, reports the car-buying resource Edmunds. According to a second quarter report, 26.6% of trade-ins toward new-car purchases had ...

In the fourth quarter of 2025, 29.3% of trade-ins toward new car purchases had negative equity, according to new data from car website Edmunds. The average amount owed on trade-ins with negative ...

WILMINGTON, Del. — Auto Equity Loans, a provider a short-term loans based on "clear and free" auto loan titles, announced it is opening three new offices in Wilmington, Bear and Newark, Del. "Banks ...

American drivers are falling behind on car loans at a pace not seen in well over a decade. Auto loans more than three months past due have reached a level ...

The average amount of upside-down auto loans reached $6,884 in the second quarter in 2026, a record for any second quarter period, according to the latest research from Edmunds. Car loans for 84 ...

Cash-out auto refinancing involves replacing your existing loan with a larger one so you can take the difference in cash. The amount you receive is based on the equity you have in your car. Cash-out ...