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In this age of smart phones and other online resources, car buyers no longer have to walk into a dealership unprepared. Now, they have a wealth of information available to help them negotiate and buy their desired cars at fair prices.

If buyers don't use the right resources at their fingertips, it could be easy to get carried away and spend too much money when shopping for a car, says Daniel Morris, a Certified Public Accountant and founding partner of Morris + D'Angelo in San Jose, Calif.

"If you're going to buy a car, you want to start the research before you enter the showroom," he says. Here are some tech-savvy tools to help you conduct research and find the best deal.


 

 

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