If you want to look for a good car on Craigslist, you basically have two alternatives. You can buy a car directly from the owner or you can buy a car from a dealer. If you will notice under the For Sale section of the classified, there is a dedicated category only for Cars and Trucks. It is under this heading that you will find all the listings for cars for sale and also wanted cars.

Dealers are dicey people to deal with in general so you have to be careful who you are buying from and what the real condition of the vehicle. It is possibly safer to buy from actual owners but only marginally. It is advised that when buying the car, it be thoroughly checked by you or someone who has some sort of an expertise or experience in this matter.

Buying and selling cars has become so popular on Craigslist that there are thousands and thousands of listing only in America. How do you browse through these postings without getting fed up? Because of the popularity of this section there is a lot of traffic and there are a large number of postings. A good idea would be to get an automated search done through any app you can procure online. There a quite a few downloadable apps available which can browse through the site like a database and pick up postings according to the search words you put in. For example, if you feed "Honda Civic", "2008" into the app and choose the "by owner" option, it will find all the ads on the site that match these words.