Two cars. One answer.
Put them side by side — engine, drivetrain, fuel economy, size — with the real asking prices and mileage in the same view. Add a car by VIN, or pick the year, make, model and trim.
Still deciding?
A side-by-side tells you which car is the better buy on paper. These tell you whether the one in front of you is the car it claims to be.
Vehicle report
Title, theft, flood and recall history for one VIN.
Fix it or ditch it
What a repair should cost, and whether it is worth it.
Specifications come from the NHTSA vPIC database — what the manufacturer certified for sale — and recall campaigns from NHTSA’s recall database. Both are public and free. A comparison of what the factory built says nothing about how either car has been treated since; that needs a history report on each VIN.