Article Summary

• Although used-car mar­ket has soft­ened in recent months, Kel­ley Blue Book will keep close watch on con­sumers’ sen­ti­ment towards pur­chas­ing new ver­sus used cars
• KBB was curi­ous if inva­sion of more afford­able, new fuel effi­cient mod­els hav­ing influ­ence on used-vehicle shoppers
• 44% of KBB.com shop­pers now con­sid­ered pur­chas­ing new due to large increase in avail­able fuel effi­cient models