Re: Buying cars
I had always bought damaged title, bank repos, ten to twelve yr old who could careless cars to get me to point A and point B
Then finally I bought a younger used (DAMAGED TITLE) 2 yr old truck1994 in....1996 paid 9000.00 for it and well the new one were reaching 23,000
I drove it till 2004.... No matainance......But finally the transmission blew. Since DH and I married two single cab truck family with kids, and the boys were well growing out of the trucks I sold my truck for 2200.00 and put it down on my 1st new car. 2004 PT crusier. Base model as the kids say, "NO BELLS!"It has a wonderful warrenty and the 2005's were out so I only managed after 5000.00 down financing 4000.00
The PT fits our family! Now just recently DH truck died it's final death. After rebuilding the transmission and replacing the motor we had to give up on the pour thing and give it to the auto angel! LOL
Gas prices are sooooo high and he travels nearly 500 a week to work. I researched the hybrids, the tiny boxes, any car under 15,000
We just bought him a toyota Yaris 2007 5 speed manual no bells....extras none
7 yr 70,000 bumper to bumper and since I new the true buying numbers ended up paying only 10,700 for the car. Gets fourty miles to a gallon. Can we say, that was a great investment under the situation because what we will save on gas we can make the payment! Also can you believe his liability insurance on his truck was $513.00 a year
and full coverage 250 deductable on this Yaris was >........................$616.00 a year
I like to have freaked! Normally DH spends on avg. 145.00 a week on gas....This week so far he still is riding on the origional tank of gas the dealer put in it!
What is even better..he put 151 miles on it driving it home from the dealer! It post to get 40 miles to the gallon? I am hoping he can get 340 miles per tank. The best part is his tank only holds 11.1 gallons!
So why I told ya this story is because....Buying new used...etc depends on ones personal situation. Even just investing into a new motor and running it to the ground has major advantages...You have to work the numbers and see the results....
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