Murf2222, that’s not fair. You bought a used car, and we simply have no idea what kind of abuse the car received in its first 3 years of life.

I bought an brand new ’01 Mustang V6, a few weeks after 9/11. The car has never broke down, and drives as good as when it was new. If anything, the transmission got softer and more responisve with use. I have only 55K miles on it, and I’ll probably keep it for at least another 100K miles.

I bought it for peanuts, about $1.5K or $2K below sticker price, I put $500 down and had 0% APR for 5 years. I’ve been free of car payments for almost 2 years, and I like it that way.