There are three places where you can buy and sell vehicles: car dealerships, truck garages, and scrapyards/junkyards. Vehicles bought from scrapyards may require repairing.
Car dealerships and scrapyards will only sell you cars, usually only two-seaters. Truck garages will sell you pickup trucks and, if you’re lucky, small delivery vans. It seems to depend on the turn, because some will sell delivery trucks one turn and pickups the next. Just wait for them to change again, or try another one.
The Italian DLC’s armored car can be bought from Truck Garages as well as Car Dealerships. If they’re not available one turn, try another turn or another business.
| Car Dealership | Truck Garage | Junkyard |
|---|---|---|
 |  |  |
You can buy as many vehicles in one turn as the number of action points your associate has, provided they have enough money on them.
There’s a recurring mission you get from fronts (Car Deals: -$1000 and 5 Crowbar) that will get you a vehicle of your choosing and often some money too, depending on what you choose. The first time you complete it, you should be offered the skill Negotiation Assistant – see below. If your front has Favors, they seem to have small delivery trucks available. If the front doesn’t have any Favors, you can get trucks from mission completions and indebted gamblers – or you could just buy them.
If you looking at getting rid of a vehicle, make sure it’s empty (no money, weapons or goods inside), then drive it to your nearest dealer or scrapyard. The money you get goes to your safehouse, and the driver becomes unassigned.
You get a better price at a scrapyard than a dealership, i.e. a two-seater usually gets you $100 from a dealer, but $200 from a scrapyard. Weirdly, the opposite tends to be true if you want to buy one – a car is cheaper to buy new from a dealership than used from a scrapyard.
| Vehicle | Where to buy | Where to sell |
|---|---|---|
| Two-door passenger car | | |
| Four door sedan | | |
| Pickup truck | | |
| Small delivery truck | | |
| Sports car | n/a* | |
| Armored car (Italian DLC) | | |
| Large truck (Atlantic City) | n/a* | |
Negotiation Assistant
When you get the offer of acquiring the Negotiation Assistant skill, should you go for it or choose another option? Let’s do a price comparison.
| Without NA | Dealer (buy) | Scrap (buy) | Dealer (sell) | Scrap (sell) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Two-door | $410-420 | $500-620 | $100 | $200 |
| Four door | ? | – | ? | ? |
| Pickup | $680-840 | ? | ? | $300 |
| Small Truck | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Sports Car | – | – | ? | ? |
| Armored Car | $4880 | – | ? | ? |
| Large Truck | – | – | ? | ? |
| With NA | Dealer (buy) | Scrap (buy) | Dealer (sell) | Scrap (sell) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Two-door | $85-110 | $500-620 | $100 | $200 |
| Four door | $220 | – | $125 | $250 |
| Pickup | $320-390 | – | $150 | $300 |
| Small Truck | $400-510 | – | $300 | $600 |
| Sports Car | – | – | $125 | $250 |
| Armored Car | $3880 | – | $1250 | $2500 |
| Large Truck | – | – | ? | ? |
It seems the price you get when you sell the vehicle is unchanged (but the skill’s flavor text only mentions buying, in fairness), nor does the price change when you buy from a scrapyard, but you can get significant savings when buying brand new vehicles, so there is no reason not to get the skill when it’s offered.