When it comes to buying a car, there are quite a number of approaches such as buying directly from a new car dealer, or a second hand dealer or you can go through newspaper classified as well as online classified such as Craigslist and such looking for cars for sale.

While each of these are a good way of buying a car, they all have one important problem. The flaw is that you are going to pay more for the vehicle than if you use other means to get the same make and model of the car.

By using the strategies I'm about to tell you, you can move up from an early 2006 model to a 2009 model of the same brand, while not paying a great deal more. You may be thinking of stolen vehicles, let me assure you that it's not.

What many people are unaware of is that there are lots of vehicles seized around the region regularly. There are many federal and state government that will legally seize vehicles of convicted criminals.

These cars are normally clean and have been well taken care of by the previous drivers. The federal and state departments want a means to get these seized cars back into the society as it is not possible to keep them all, hence holding government car auctions.

The means that the government feeds these vehicles back into the society is by public auctioning. These auctions are organized all around the states, and have an amazing range of cars to choose from. If what you are searching for is not available, simply wait until the next auction when and hopefully it will appear.

There are also online services that you can acquire a one off subscription for one of these services that will let you know what cars are available in your state, with many of these vehicles starting auction for $500 or so.