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Based on the color of your car, you may be revealing more about yourself than you realize. This is what I just read in this somewhat old news. Unfortunately the story does not link to the original source of the scientific study, so there is an extra job for you if you would like to verify.
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(This is the 5^th post of the 8-part series An investing-friendly car buying guide.)

Visit Carfax with your list of cars and their VINs. This is where you look up the entire history of the car, from its birth up to now. Carfax offers a free service too, but it is more than your money’s worth to pay $30 for the detailed history report for unlimited number of cars. The icing is Carfax’s “buyback guarantee”, the offer to buy the car back from you at the price you paid if the report misses any serious violation. Enter each of the VINs on your list, and look them up.
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(This is the 4^th post of the 8-part series An investing-friendly car buying guide.)

You want to buy a used car (why? because of this and this), and have a budget of $10,000. Which one car, among the several hundreds of different types out there, should you choose? For the sake of this discussion, we narrow the field down to the 4-door sedan cars in mid-sized segments. (Everything said here holds for most other types of cars as well.)
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