Stories · The Carfin Journal

Notes on cars, finance, and the business of buying.

Written by buyers, advisors, and the occasional ex-automotive-journalist on the Carfin team. New piece every Tuesday.

How we priced the new Creta against the Seltos for a Mumbai family of four.

Two compact SUVs. Same engine bay. Different stories about why each one is on every shortlist in India. We took a real family through the maths.

Reduce-balance EMI maths, opportunity cost of cash, and the one tax loophole most CAs forget to mention.

15,000 km, two flat tyres, one Nashik-to-Spiti run. What the brochure didn't tell us.

The protocol's adult-occupant tests, the child-occupant tests, and the bits Indians still aren't testing for (yet).

Insurance, servicing, tyres, depreciation. We costed a five-year ownership of an Audi Q5 vs a Toyota Camry Hybrid.

187 chargers. 41 broken. Here's where the working ones are — and which apps are honest about it.

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