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Proposed Budget: $7000 - $9000, maybe up to $10,000 New or Used: Used Body Style: 4-door car of some sort, preferably with a lot of room. I'm not a small person. How will you be using the car?: 20-40mi daily commute, occasionally carting around friends. What aspects are most important to you? Cost and maintenance. Mileage would be nice but isn't a huge priority. I live in Vegas so the summer weather is pretty harsh but there's not much of a winter. Not sure how much that matters. I'm currently driving a early 90s GMC truck from my family that has all sorts of fun and interesting problems and probably won't last too long -- the transmission is going south and most recently the thermostat stopped working properly, and it some minor leaks. It basically rotted in the driveway for a few years without moving much... The only thing about it I like is that it has pedals that require a little bit of force to move, so accelerating and braking is smoother and less "poo poo I barely touched it and it just jerked to a stop  ".I know absolutely nothing about purchasing a car  I do know that buying something lovely just because it's cheap works out real well, though. My mother bought a $1000 beater that basically instantly required $2000+ worth of work. 
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Bovril Delight posted:That sounds about right. 1k cars are bought with the assumption you will need to sink in cash to fix stuff. If you go in buying a 1k car expecting it to be reliable and not require an extra initial investment, you're fooling yourself. Oh, she was.  Apparently the person who she bought it from
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Back again. Went car shopping. Delaerships like Carmax seem terrible, and others aren't interested in what budget you give them. No, I don't want a $22k car when I told you my budget is $15k, thanks. Proposed Budget: No more than $15k if I can help it. I make $40k/year with $13k in cash right now. I have no real credit history, it seems. New or Used: Used. Body Style: 4-door, sedan or hatchbacks. Something with enough room inside, I'm not a small person. How will you be using the car?: Commute, occasional neighborhood driving. Possibility of longer trips, though. What aspects are most important to you?: I need something with at least some oomph. I'm used to driving a 1990 GMC pickup that has no problems getting up to freeway speed; a 4-cyl I test-drove seemed to sputter and struggle to make it up to 65mph. One of the cars I test-drove and found was pretty decent was a Ford Avenger, 2011. It was $15k or so at Carmax. A different dealer seemed dead-set on me taking a Kia Soul, but they look kind of lame and the price was way out of range again. I'm a complete newbie when it comes to this sort of thing, but even I could tell I was being taken for a ride by the dealerships. Browsing poo poo on the Las Vegas craigslist and I'm not sure what I should be looking for, either. Zamujasa fucked around with this message at 00:35 on Mar 4, 2013 |
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