Luxury Car Deals Market Desk
How our market desk reports
Every story starts from the same data our deal ratings use: the luxury and exotic car listings we track across the country, every day.
Where the numbers come from
We follow tens of thousands of dealer listings for luxury, exotic and performance cars, from the day a car is listed to the day it leaves the market. Each story is built from that record: what is for sale, what it is asking, how long cars sit and how prices move.
What the numbers mean
Prices are asking prices, not sale prices. Dealers rarely publish what a car sold for, so we never claim to know it.
When we say asking prices rose or fell, we compare like with like: the same model, trim and model year with similar miles, between two named months. A move inside the normal month to month noise is reported as flat.
Fair value is what comparable cars are listed for. A great or good deal is a car asking well under that. Typical days to sell is the median time from first listing to leaving the market, and months of supply is how long today's cars would take to sell at the recent pace.
How a story is written and checked
Our system picks the stories the data supports, such as a model whose prices moved more than the noise, a brand's month, or a week with unusually good deals. Each one is drafted with AI writing tools from a fact sheet drawn from our data, and nothing outside it.
Before anything is published, every figure in the draft is traced back to that fact sheet in code, and two separate editor models read it for accuracy and for plain, natural writing. A draft that fails goes back for a rewrite, and one that still fails is never published. Car listings in a story are live: when a car sells, it drops off the page.
Carmaker news, recalls and first reviews
We also report the news that moves this market: new models and versions, US pricing, recalls and what the first reviews say. We read the car press's news feeds through the day, and each story is researched from the carmaker's own announcement, regulators such as NHTSA, and established publications, then checked against those pages before it is written. A fact we cannot find on a trusted source's page is dropped, and quotes must appear word for word in the source.
These stories say who said what and link every source, listed again under the story. Reviews are roundups of what other outlets found: we have not driven the cars, and we say so. Then each story adds what only we have: asking prices, supply and deals for the models it touches, from the listings we track. Photos on these stories show cars listed for sale on our site, not the new car, and the caption says which car it is.
What we will not do
We do not take payment for coverage, we do not name dealers in stories, and we do not publish rumors, spy shots, leaks or figures we cannot check against our own data or a trusted source.
Corrections
When we find a mistake, we fix the story and show the date it was updated at the top.