Car Buying Sites Backed by a Major Auto Company

If you want to know who is really writing the check, this is the filter: every service below names, on its own site, the larger auto company that owns or powers it. CashForCars.com is Copart-powered, the Kelley Blue Book Instant Cash Offer is backed by KBB under Cox Automotive, EchoPark is the used-car retailer of Sonic Automotive, and Driveway is Lithia-affiliated. Buyers that stand on their own name, such as Carvana, CarMax or AutoNation, and the independent junk-car specialists are left out, not because they are worse but because they do not point to a parent. The parent does not change the terms, so read each card: one hands you a check at the tow, one is redeemed in person at a participating dealer, one pays by check or trade credit at its own store with a bonus for selling within 48 hours, and one sends a valet to your driveway and pays on the spot.