Local car auctions are generally restricted to a particular locality and hence are usually a lot smaller than the national car auctions. In fact, local car auctions are the best place to find the car you so fancy on. These auctions indeed find you the best bargain for cars. Though the number of cars displayed and advertised is not too large in number, they never go on to tarnishing your hopes for finding the car. And if you have any specification about the car you want to buy, local car auctions are the place to buy them from. The reason is that there is reduced competition with the increasing level of specification. So your chances of getting a better deal keep getting better.

There’s a lot of information on the internet on seized cars that are subsequently sold at government car auctions. But it seems to me that a vast majority of this information is either incomplete, misleading or just plain marketing “hype”.

You’ve probably seen it often and it goes something like, “Seized Cars… $100… 90% Off Retail!”, or something along these lines. Assuming you’re in the market for a nice used car, do you really think you can buy one at prices like this? You know what they say, “when it sounds too good to be true…”