[Christien]

Salvage title generally means an insurance write-off that has been re-certified for the road. It could be a recovered stolen vehicle, it could be written-off in an accident and rebuilt, a flood repair, really any case where the insurance company has deemed it a total loss and paid it out, and then the car has somehow been certified as road-worthy. The most common one you see is stolen recovery, which is kind of a lousy branding of the title because the car could be perfectly fine, but the branded title immediately knocks 30-50% off the price.