Yep ! Carefully select a car about 8 years old, for about 5k, throw a dime into it for needed maintenance, drive it another 100k + miles. That's the way to go. Unless you are just rolling in dough.
Wife pisses me off always wanting to trade in car ( 07 Honda, bought new ( ugh). I drive a 2000 F-150, bought in 2006, plan on keeping it at least 6 more years. I get Holy Hell if I spend $400 on a brakejob for it, but buying a new 26k car is fine ?
Fuck payments and leases, just buy the vehicle,...5k gets you a decent car. I've had great luck with $300 cars back in the 80's. Perhaps not great if you're a like a doctor or something, but fine if you drive it as just transportation, or take it to construction sites... it doesn't matter if a drunk forklift/ pettibone operator bumps it.
Jose, you owe me a case of beer for hitting my 75 Toyota pickup !
An 8 year old car can look like almost new.
Look at this way:
30k or almost so for a decent new car, like an Accord or CR-V
I can have a Fucking fleet for that
maybe :
an older Civic
an F-150
a motorcyle
a boat
maybe even a beater sports car ?
5k apiece. Something will always be running good ! Should be able to keep the Civic and F-150 (primary cars) running fine, got the bike and scooter as back-ups, and the 85 Mustang ( or whatever). I'd rather have the fleet of misc. decent cars over one 30k new car. I don't own this fleet, except for the F-150. I have an 07 CR-V, and a 2000 F-150, can't park all this stuff in a condo, but I would in an actual house. You'd have back-ups to your back-ups !
enough left over for a scooter
30k or almost so for a decent new car, like an Accord or CR-V
I can have a Fucking fleet for that
maybe :
an older Civic
an F-150
a motorcyle
a boat
maybe even a beater sports car ?
5k apiece. Something will always be running good ! Should be able to keep the Civic and F-150 (primary cars) running fine, got the bike and scooter as back-ups, and the 85 Mustang ( or whatever). I'd rather have the fleet of misc. decent cars over one 30k new car. I don't own this fleet, except for the F-150. I have an 07 CR-V, and a 2000 F-150, can't park all this stuff in a condo, but I would in an actual house. You'd have back-ups to your back-ups !
enough left over for a scooter
