Which car is best to buy now?

[paramount]

If you want a good estimate of what a car will cost you, check out Edmunds.com True Cost of Ownership (TCO).

[jstoesz]

I am really hard on cars, and I have been more than impressed with honda. I have owned a CR-V for 7 years (bought 3 years used). I have 180k miles, and I have not done anything but fluids and brakes. Sure the transmission is not what it used to be. But it has been the cheapest car…ever. I have now had a honda accord for 2 years (bought 5 years used) and it has 80k. It has yet to have any problems.

Hell I am still on original shocks, and it has only seen 3 sets of tires. So even usual maintenance items seem to go longer than my friends toyotas. Maybe I have just been lucky, but I am all about honda.

I can not stress enough. As long as you change the fluids, get a tune up now and again, and are not rally racing them. A honda should last you for 150k miles without thinking, likely to 200k, and if you baby it, I would not be surprised with 230k.

[jstoesz]

I am really hard on cars, and I have been more than impressed with honda. I have owned a CR-V for 7 years (bought 3 years used). I have 180k miles, and I have not done anything but fluids and brakes. Sure the transmission is not what it used to be. But it has been the cheapest car…ever. I have now had a honda accord for 2 years (bought 5 years used) and it has 80k. It has yet to have any problems.

Hell I am still on original shocks, and it has only seen 3 sets of tires. So even usual maintenance items seem to go longer than my friends toyotas. Maybe I have just been lucky, but I am all about honda.

I can not stress enough. As long as you change the fluids, get a tune up now and again, and are not rally racing them. A honda should last you for 150k miles without thinking, likely to 200k, and if you baby it, I would not be surprised with 230k.

[jstoesz]

I am really hard on cars, and I have been more than impressed with honda. I have owned a CR-V for 7 years (bought 3 years used). I have 180k miles, and I have not done anything but fluids and brakes. Sure the transmission is not what it used to be. But it has been the cheapest car…ever. I have now had a honda accord for 2 years (bought 5 years used) and it has 80k. It has yet to have any problems.

Hell I am still on original shocks, and it has only seen 3 sets of tires. So even usual maintenance items seem to go longer than my friends toyotas. Maybe I have just been lucky, but I am all about honda.

I can not stress enough. As long as you change the fluids, get a tune up now and again, and are not rally racing them. A honda should last you for 150k miles without thinking, likely to 200k, and if you baby it, I would not be surprised with 230k.

[jstoesz]

I am really hard on cars, and I have been more than impressed with honda. I have owned a CR-V for 7 years (bought 3 years used). I have 180k miles, and I have not done anything but fluids and brakes. Sure the transmission is not what it used to be. But it has been the cheapest car…ever. I have now had a honda accord for 2 years (bought 5 years used) and it has 80k. It has yet to have any problems.

Hell I am still on original shocks, and it has only seen 3 sets of tires. So even usual maintenance items seem to go longer than my friends toyotas. Maybe I have just been lucky, but I am all about honda.

I can not stress enough. As long as you change the fluids, get a tune up now and again, and are not rally racing them. A honda should last you for 150k miles without thinking, likely to 200k, and if you baby it, I would not be surprised with 230k.

[jstoesz]

I am really hard on cars, and I have been more than impressed with honda. I have owned a CR-V for 7 years (bought 3 years used). I have 180k miles, and I have not done anything but fluids and brakes. Sure the transmission is not what it used to be. But it has been the cheapest car…ever. I have now had a honda accord for 2 years (bought 5 years used) and it has 80k. It has yet to have any problems.

Hell I am still on original shocks, and it has only seen 3 sets of tires. So even usual maintenance items seem to go longer than my friends toyotas. Maybe I have just been lucky, but I am all about honda.

I can not stress enough. As long as you change the fluids, get a tune up now and again, and are not rally racing them. A honda should last you for 150k miles without thinking, likely to 200k, and if you baby it, I would not be surprised with 230k.

[CafeMoto]

my wife is in your camp, her car needs a little love but nothing major.
sometimes you just want a different car after 8 or in her case 9 years.
its taken me up until this year to realize how expensive automobiles are.
ask yourself what is most important to you (practicality/performance) and a buy a used one of those.
if you at all like your passat, keep fixing it at an indie shop.
my wife has seen the light and is keeping her 2001.
now she can buy all the shoes she wants as far as I am concerned 😉

[CafeMoto]

my wife is in your camp, her car needs a little love but nothing major.
sometimes you just want a different car after 8 or in her case 9 years.
its taken me up until this year to realize how expensive automobiles are.
ask yourself what is most important to you (practicality/performance) and a buy a used one of those.
if you at all like your passat, keep fixing it at an indie shop.
my wife has seen the light and is keeping her 2001.
now she can buy all the shoes she wants as far as I am concerned 😉

[CafeMoto]

my wife is in your camp, her car needs a little love but nothing major.
sometimes you just want a different car after 8 or in her case 9 years.
its taken me up until this year to realize how expensive automobiles are.
ask yourself what is most important to you (practicality/performance) and a buy a used one of those.
if you at all like your passat, keep fixing it at an indie shop.
my wife has seen the light and is keeping her 2001.
now she can buy all the shoes she wants as far as I am concerned 😉

[CafeMoto]

my wife is in your camp, her car needs a little love but nothing major.
sometimes you just want a different car after 8 or in her case 9 years.
its taken me up until this year to realize how expensive automobiles are.
ask yourself what is most important to you (practicality/performance) and a buy a used one of those.
if you at all like your passat, keep fixing it at an indie shop.
my wife has seen the light and is keeping her 2001.
now she can buy all the shoes she wants as far as I am concerned 😉

[CafeMoto]

my wife is in your camp, her car needs a little love but nothing major.
sometimes you just want a different car after 8 or in her case 9 years.
its taken me up until this year to realize how expensive automobiles are.
ask yourself what is most important to you (practicality/performance) and a buy a used one of those.
if you at all like your passat, keep fixing it at an indie shop.
my wife has seen the light and is keeping her 2001.
now she can buy all the shoes she wants as far as I am concerned 😉

[bearishgurl]

[quote=walterwhite]I think click and clack usuallya dvise keeping the old car. I don’t mind paying 1000 maintenance now and again to avoid higher registration, sales tax etc. He’ll I haven’t paid comp/collision on my car for over a decade because it was a beater back then. I’ve probably save. Tens of thousands just keeping the same old car. Same goes for divorce but more so.[/quote]

scaredy, you’re absolutely right here, on all counts ;=)

[bearishgurl]

[quote=walterwhite]I think click and clack usuallya dvise keeping the old car. I don’t mind paying 1000 maintenance now and again to avoid higher registration, sales tax etc. He’ll I haven’t paid comp/collision on my car for over a decade because it was a beater back then. I’ve probably save. Tens of thousands just keeping the same old car. Same goes for divorce but more so.[/quote]

scaredy, you’re absolutely right here, on all counts ;=)

[bearishgurl]

[quote=walterwhite]I think click and clack usuallya dvise keeping the old car. I don’t mind paying 1000 maintenance now and again to avoid higher registration, sales tax etc. He’ll I haven’t paid comp/collision on my car for over a decade because it was a beater back then. I’ve probably save. Tens of thousands just keeping the same old car. Same goes for divorce but more so.[/quote]

scaredy, you’re absolutely right here, on all counts ;=)

[bearishgurl]

[quote=walterwhite]I think click and clack usuallya dvise keeping the old car. I don’t mind paying 1000 maintenance now and again to avoid higher registration, sales tax etc. He’ll I haven’t paid comp/collision on my car for over a decade because it was a beater back then. I’ve probably save. Tens of thousands just keeping the same old car. Same goes for divorce but more so.[/quote]

scaredy, you’re absolutely right here, on all counts ;=)

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