Credit union new- and used-car rates are more than one percentage point lower than those at banks.

Nearly one million new licensed drivers will be on the road each year for the next ten years.

Sixty percent of U.S. households have two or more cars, three times the number of households with more than one car in 1960.

The average new-vehicle transaction price last year was $21,924; average used-car transaction, $11,609.

Demand for nearly new used vehicles (two to four years old) is up to 12 times more than the supply, depending on the segment--such as sport utility vehicles.

The median age of cars in the United States is 7.7 years, the oldest level recorded in more than 40 years by the Polk Co.'s annual vehicle census.

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