More Americans are trading in underwater vehicles. 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 ...

More car buyers are finding themselves in a tough spot financially. According to a recent report from Edmunds, more than 26% of new-vehicle trade-ins in the second quarter of 2025 had negative equity ...

An estimated 30.5% of car buyers with a trade-in owe more than it's worth, up 4.2 percentage points from a year ago but still below the prepandemic share.

In another big win for fans of debt, new data from Edmunds says that car buyers are falling into a worrying cycle of negative equity on their cars. In the fourth quarter of 2025, just about 3-in-10 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. S&P Global Mobility autos director Thomas Libby discusses the stress on car loans and how it might make it more difficult for ...