Good (cheap??) cars?

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I would go with a Honda or a Toyota. SOmething used at about $4000. Both cars hold their resale value.

My old Honda Accord, I bought for $3,500, put it through three years of law school (about an hour and a half commute - or 70K miles over three years), drove it cross country, and when it got totalled in an accident, I got $3,200 for it.
 
A good cheap car is the Ford Focus. Not much horse power, but they've got a lot more get up and go than most other 4cl, and you can't beat the price. Or you could go for a Chevy Cavalier...They rattle a lot, and they're heavy on road noise, but I've known people who drive them for well over 100,000 miles.

The best car for around $11,000, though is 2 or 3 year old Ford Taurus/Mercury Sable. They last forever, get great gas mileage, and you won't die in a head on wreck. You'll just hit your head on the roof because the dude behind you didn't have a seatbelt and he breaks your chair..Then you'll have some weird blackouts for a few months, have some full body spasms for a few months, but then you get all better.

I miss my Mercury Sable.
 
American cars blow. A well kept Japanese or German car should expect to get well past 200K miles. My old Nissan 200SX died at 190K and I treated it poorly.

They are expensive to maintain, but they last a long time and are damn reliable. American cars crumble and die too fast, forcing you to buy new.
 
Go for a used VW Golf or Jetta (Jetta is called Bora in Europe, I don't know what the Golf is called.) New ones are pretty affordable as well.



~Dove=Volkswagen whore...
 
Dove said:
(Jetta is called Bora in Europe, I don't know what the Golf is called.)
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The Golf is called..the Golf.
I might add that "Jetta" is a bloody stupid name for a car.

But then, so is "Bora"
 
Big_T_UK said:
The Golf is called..the Golf.
I might add that "Jetta" is a bloody stupid name for a car.

But then, so is "Bora"
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:violent: Yeah...

Well...


Well you're a butthead! :P
 
My '92 Ford Rustcort has over 300,000 miles on it and it still runs fine. Well, fine enough to serve my needs. Original engine and everything.
 
Ozrat said:
My '92 Ford Rustcort has over 300,000 miles on it and it still runs fine. Well, fine enough to serve my needs. Original engine and everything.
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yeah, is that the same car that makes you afraid to stop at stop signs for fear it'll stall?
 
eom said:
yeah, is that the same car that makes you afraid to stop at stop signs for fear it'll stall?
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No, that was my '84 Chevy Celebrity, aka Burnt Renoylds.

This one is lightyears better.
 
I used to have a 66' Chevy truck...It had about 280,000 miles on it, and though it was held together with pantyhose and hair-pins, it ran great, and still runs great as it's my younger cousin's vehicle now.

I had a 92 Ford Thunderbird. When I sold it it had about 160,000 on it. The girl who bought it still drives it, and that was about 6 years ago.

Got a 96 Ford F150 truck. I liked it, and it ran great. Sold it at 80,000 miles.

Then I got a 99' Mercury Sable...Ran great, had about 75,000 on it when I totalled it in a head on collission. The place that towed it took my $1500 sound system and said "When the vehicle arrived here, it had no stereo or speakers, so you must have taken them out before we got there to tow it." Bullshit.

Now I've got this POS 2000 Chevy Malibu. Worst vehicle I've ever owned. It rattles constantly, I've had to replace little broken plastic bits with real metal bits in the engine. The AC has gone out twice in the year I've had it...Pieces of the plastic molding in the interior are falling off left and right. It's a shit car. But the stereo kicks major ass...That's the only good thing.
 
haha yes welsh--that's pretty much my dream car!
Dove--I was thinking of Jettas--they're not too expensive and my sister has one. And they're actually attractive, which is something you can't say about too many cars these days...
Thanks all for your help! Keep the ideas coming!
 
Get yourself a nice Chevy S-10. Good reliable compact trucks, get a shell for the bed and you can throw a matress back there, or use it to haul all your gear or a group of people out to a cabin in the woods for a weekend of drinking and almost constantly putting the cabin out because people keep constantly setting it on fire.

a good time was had by all that weekend.
 
Try the Toyota Echo.... not the lunchbox-without-the-handle hatchback one ... the sedan one. 250$ a month for 60 months ( that's Canadian $) , one of the lowest if not the lowest gas consumption on the road.
I have the 2001, it's nice. Only problem is it's very light and if you do lots of open highway and it's windy, keep both hands on the steering wheel.
 
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