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  • Interest rates on car loans: Top PSU and private banks offer competitive deals

    Interest rates on car loans: Top PSU and private banks offer competitive deals

    Car loan interest rates vary with the banks, with banks like Punjab National Bank and Union Bank of India offering competitive rates starting from 7.80% and 7.90% respectively.

  • Drive home your dream car: Top public and private banks offer competitive car loan rates

    Drive home your dream car: Top public and private banks offer competitive car loan rates

    During the festive season, car buyers can expect attractive loan offers from banks, with interest rates ranging from 7.90% to 9.99% for a Rs 10 lakh loan.

  • Personal vs Car Loans: What's the most suitable option to buy a car?

    Personal vs Car Loans: What's the most suitable option to buy a car?

    Confused between a personal loan and a car loan for your next car? This article breaks down the pros, cons, and cost differences to help you choose smartly.

  • Who Provides Used Car Loan In India And How To Apply For One

    Who Provides Used Car Loan In India And How To Apply For One

    Looking to buy a car without stretching your budget? A used car loan can help you drive home a pre-owned vehicle with ease and affordability.

  • Used Car Loans: A step-by-step guide to secure loan for buying your dream car

    Used Car Loans: A step-by-step guide to secure loan for buying your dream car

    A used car loan helps you finance a pre-owned vehicle by covering most of its cost. While interest rates are slightly higher than new car loans, they offer a budget-friendly way to own a vehicle without making a huge upfront payment.

  • Minimum credit score to get a car loan: Key factors to know for quick loan approval

    Minimum credit score to get a car loan: Key factors to know for quick loan approval

    Planning to get a car but worried about getting a loan? Here's all you need to know about the credit score required for getting a car loan with smooth approval.

  • What does a car loan really cost you? Understanding the true price of car financing

    What does a car loan really cost you? Understanding the true price of car financing

    A car loan in India involves more costs than just the principal amount borrowed. Interest rates, loan tenure, down payment, and fees all influence the overall expense. Ultimately, understanding these factors and other will enable more affordable car ownership and financial stability.

  • China eases car loan rules in new bid to boost consumption

    China eases car loan rules in new bid to boost consumption

    The new rules follow a pledge last month from the head of the National Financial Regulatory Administration to promote consumption by making it easier to get car loans.

  • Bank of Baroda cuts interest rates on car loans by 65 bps

    Bank of Baroda cuts interest rates on car loans by 65 bps

    The new rate, the bank said, is applicable on the purchase of a new car and is linked to a borrower’s credit profile.

  • 5 tricks to get the best rate for a luxury car loan

    5 tricks to get the best rate for a luxury car loan

    It’s one thing to aspire to buy a luxury car, but quite another if your car’s equated monthly installments exhaust your entire monthly budget. Ideally, your total EMIs should not exceed 30 percent of your monthly take-home income.

  • HDFC Bank’s Mega Car Loan Mela offers innovative EMI options, which one should you choose?

    HDFC Bank’s Mega Car Loan Mela offers innovative EMI options, which one should you choose?

    HDFC Bank is hosting the mega car loan mela on June 2 and 3 in central India and Maharashtra. The bank is offering customers two flexible repayment options – step-up and balloon. Moneycontrol looks into the pros and cons.

  • Should you buy car now by taking loan or save for it and buy later?

    Should you buy car now by taking loan or save for it and buy later?

    Car is a depreciating asset and hence, it’s better to take as small a loan as possible.

  • Diwali Bonanza: BoB, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank lead cheaper loan offers

    Diwali Bonanza: BoB, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank lead cheaper loan offers

    Several Diwali loan offers are currently on. But read the fine print before you opt for one. Take loan only if you really need to borrow.

  • Are EV car loans cheaper?

    Are EV car loans cheaper?

  • Planning to buy a car this Diwali? Banks offer attractive rates on EV car loans

    Planning to buy a car this Diwali? Banks offer attractive rates on EV car loans

    SBI, Bank of Baroda and Axis Bank, among others, are offering better interest rates on EV car loans than petrol and diesel variants. And there’s a tax benefit too. But lack of enough charging stations across the country might be a temporary roadblock. However, that’s not dampening the rising popularity of EVs.

  • MC Explains | How to manage your credit and borrowing in the era of loan apps?

    MC Explains | How to manage your credit and borrowing in the era of loan apps?

    The availability of credit with just a click of a button lures us to borrow more and more. Taking a loan is not bad, but it becomes a problem when you borrow for things that are not a necessity. Loan apps have made it easier to borrow, but also made it easier to get trapped in the vicious cycle of borrowing to repay. So here are a few points to keep in mind to borrow responsibly, so that loan apps don’t kill you.

  • Bank of Maharashtra lowers home loan rate to 6.40%

    Bank of Maharashtra lowers home loan rate to 6.40%

    Besides, the bank has also lowered interest rate on car loans to 6.80 per cent, from 7.05 per cent in line with market competition.

  • Punjab National Bank reduces home loan interest rate to 6.60%

    Punjab National Bank reduces home loan interest rate to 6.60%

    The interest rate is also applicable to balance transfer cases and is lowest among public sector banks. PNB also decreased interest rate on home loans above Rs 50 lakh by 50 basis points.

  • Independence Day 2021 | SBI announces special offers on car loan, gold loan and more

    Independence Day 2021 | SBI announces special offers on car loan, gold loan and more

    For retail depositors, the State Bank of India is introducing ‘Platinum Term Deposits’ to mark 75 years of independence.

  • Punjab and Sind Bank, Central Bank of India offer the lowest interest rates on car loans

    Punjab and Sind Bank, Central Bank of India offer the lowest interest rates on car loans

    Bank of Baroda charges an interest rate of 7.25 percent, the same as what Central Bank of India does

  • Punjab & Sind Bank, Central Bank of India offer the cheapest car loans

    Punjab & Sind Bank, Central Bank of India offer the cheapest car loans

    Canara Bank, Punjab National Bank charge 7.3 percent for Rs 10-lakh car loans

  • Punjab & Sind Bank, Central Bank of India offer the lowest interest rates on car loans

    Punjab & Sind Bank, Central Bank of India offer the lowest interest rates on car loans

    EMIs for car loans of Rs 10-lakh start at Rs 15,142

  • Punjab & Sind, Central and Canara banks offer the cheapest car loans

    Punjab & Sind, Central and Canara banks offer the cheapest car loans

    The cheapest car loan rates start at 7.10 percent. State Bank of India offers car loans starting at 7.85 percent.

  • Bank of Baroda launches festive offers for home, car loans

    Bank of Baroda launches festive offers for home, car loans

    The lender said it is offering a waiver of 0.25 percent in the existing applicable rates for Baroda Home Loans (under take over cases only) and Baroda Car Loans.

  • Here are the banks that offer the cheapest car loans

    Here are the banks that offer the cheapest car loans

    Lenders, led by public sector banks, offer interest rates starting at 7.1 per cent

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