After spending the first few weeks of 2012 compiling and analyzing our 2011 new car buying data – one fact has become glaringly obvious: women are more practical car buyers than men. While the average new car offer for a man is around $31,911, women typically seek cars and options that land them at a $28,306 price range. However, the two sexes save about the same. Men usually get 10.3% off MSRP and women get around 10.2% off MSRP. 

So not only have we proven that car prices are starting to stablize, especially if you’re looking for a Nissan, but the CarWoo! Marketplace has also demonstrated an interesting tidbit about human psychology. CarWoo! data, obtained from their online MarketPlace for new car buyers and sellers, reveals that after peaking during July, the rigor of negotiation appears to be lessening as new car prices begin to return to first quarter 2011 levels.

Hey new car buyers, try these stats on for size. According to the CarWoo! Marketplace, rices for new car buyers improved 7% in July over June.  The top brands? Nissan and Ford remained the discount leaders offering 10.38% and 8.38% discounts off MSRP respectively.

While Japanese cars, specifically Hondas and Toyotas, remain popular, their prices remain near all time highs.

Maybe it’s spring fever, or preparation for summer road trips, but many Americans welcomed an addition to their family in May in the form of a brand new minivan. In fact, according to data from the CarWoo! marketplace, minivan sales doubled in May, up from 3.64% in April to 7.35% of all new vehicle purchases. 

So we did sports cars, and we did minivans, and now, to conclude the series on the most popular car color choices, we’ve got SUV’s brining in the rear (and quite a large rear it is…hehe…he).

After studying the results, it seems that SUV owners are similar to their minivan brethren in that they prefer vehicles that would not change color were they driven through the first ten minutes of The Wizard of Oz (ie – they like riding around in black and white and every shade in between). In fact, a crazy 67% of new SUV buyers choose black, silver, gray or white.

The news of Osama Bin Laden’s death by American troops has already caused a rise in the global stock market. Here are CarWoo!, we’re curious how further events in the Middle East will affect already rising car prices over the next few weeks and months.

Last week we released a post revealing the most popular color requests for sports cars in the CarWoo! Marketplace. It turns out that many more sports car buyers are fans of the sleek and sexy, and non-light absorbing black than any other color. But do minivan buyers reflect the same trend? Not so much.