Deciding how much you can spend on a new car just became easier! NorCalCars is proud to add an automotive loan calculator to the list of features available to our visitors. You will find a link to the calculator on each of the vehicle detail pages or you can go straight to the calculator by clicking this Automotive Loan Calculator link.

The calculator is designed to help you decide how much you can afford to pay for a car in two ways; (more…)

Here’s an interesting trailer developed by a local video surveillance company. It’s a mobile video security system that you can tow behind your car or truck and set up anywhere you would like to watch what’s going on.

In most cases contractors wanting to secure and monitor their jobsites use them, but I can see using these at any event where you might be leaving things out overnight that might be damaged. Some of the possible events might include Classic Car, boat or RV shows. Images taken from the security cameras are immediately uploaded onto the Internet where anyone with a pass code can login and make sure their baby is resting safely at the car show grounds.

With the 360deg motion detectors and PA warning system which warns “You have entered a secure area” when something gets too close, this might even help keep stray dogs from using your nice chrome wheels as a public bathroom. Might be worth asking the event coordinator about the next time you plan on leaving your car at a show.

Lately we have been hearing quite a bit about thinking green, buying vehicles that are better for the environment. Remember when everyone was so excited about hydrogen fuel cells and saying that they are the future of the automobile industry.

It seems like hybrid cars (cars that run on both gasoline and electricity) are the latest rage and hydrogen fuel cells have fallen into the background. Hydrogen fueled vehicles seemed so promising, so why did they loose the spot light? (more…)

The Internet has grown into one of the better ways to buy and sell a used car. From the convenience of your home computer you are able to easily and quickly put your car up for sale on one of the many auction and classifieds websites available. Auction sites like eBay allow people to bid on your vehicle while classifieds sites like the classifieds section of NorCalCars.com allows you to sell your vehicle in a news paper classifieds style format for free.

One of the major advantages to using online classifieds and auction sites is the increased visibility your ad gets. Instead of just reaching people in your own town like a typical newspaper does, you can reach people in towns over a much wider region.

Often people are looking for a specific vehicle. Instead of only having a few vehicles to choose from when looking in the local paper, by searching the Internet they can have hundreds of vehicles to choose from if they are willing to drive to neighboring towns to see them. Putting your vehicle in a classifieds site like the one at NorCalCars puts your vehicle “On the Net” allowing people from all over the state to find your car by searching in search engine sites like Google.

Unfortunately, the main advantage to using auction and classifieds sites is also one of the main drawbacks. Unscrupulous people use this same search feature to find unsuspecting people to try to scam.

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