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Canada Help Me Choose

Still have no idea which car is best for you? Try these resources....

If you find that the Canadian car research tools listed on this page are not adequate for your needs you can use the tools on the American page (simply click on the "See this page for: the US" link in the lower left hand corner of the page). Keep in mind that there are some subtle differences between cars for sale in Canada and in the US.

The major differences between US and Canadian regulations mean that cars for sale in Canada must have bilingual labels, kilometers instead of miles, child seat anchors, daytime running lights and more stringent bumpers. Obviously prices shown on US sites are in US dollars and you should keep that in mind when looking at any pricing data.

globeandmail.com : globeauto.com
http://www.globeauto.com/

I recently discovered this site via a newspaper ad. The help me choose tool is quite well done. There are 3 separate tools - I would suggest using the first two rather than the 'Ideal Match' which only gives you a few criteria to choose from.

Pros:
The 'I Know What I Want' tool is where I'd start. This tool allows you to specify a make and model (but this is optional), price range, type of car (sedan, coupe), fuel economy range, horsepower, a variety of safety features, transmission type, drive type and fuel type. Once you've obtained a list of vehicles you can re-sort the list and also refine the search to widen or narrow the number of vehicles found. You can email the results or print them out.

Cons:
Although not as full featured as the best American tools this is a very worthy effort and I don't have any significant criticisms of this tool.

Canadian automotive network - Find your vehicle
http://www.auto123.com/en/new-cars/car-finder

Today's review (September 2008) finds this tool improved quite a bit. You can now indicate many more criteria and modify your choices on the fly.

Pros:
The tool is easy to use and covers the basic criteria you might wish to use to narrow your choices (price range, body style, transmission type) as well as allowing you to compare cars to one another once you've got a list of possible choices. Other cars that are in the same kind of price/specification range as those you have chosen are shown in a column off to the right.

Cons:
There are no criteria for choosing fuel efficient vehicles or environmentally friendly ones nor is there anything that lets you indicate what qualities you find most important (for example safety or resale value) as there are on better quality 'help me choose' tools.

Cars4U.com - Buy or lease your new car online
http://www.cars4u.com/search/

Another lacklustre tool but with so few to choose from we have to include it.

Pros:
It is nice that you can specify price range in three ways - total cost, estimated lease payment or estimated finance payment.

Cons:
There is no ability to specify number of doors, type of transmission or any of the other of tens (hundreds?) of criteria provided on American help-me-choose tools. Sigh.

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