Car Shopping
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I'm actually on the Honda site now. Been looking online at the manufacturer web sites checking out models, features and prices. Then we have been going to visit that dealer and going to see the model we already liked from the web. Will probably go to Honda and Toyota dealers this weekend.
I'm gonna be putting 20,000 miles a year on this so what ever I get needs to be dependable. I have experience with Honda cars and bikes and I know that they are dependable work horses.
The Hyundais are good, too.
I bought a used Accent for $5000.00 several years ago. It had 60k miles on it. I finally got rid of it at 234k miles.
I’d have no hesitation at all with getting a used Honda, Toyota, or Hyundai with up to 75k miles on it, as long as it had been reasonably well-maintained.
eSGEe
Ferengi Ambassador of Trade
Ive had good luck with the KIAs Ive had...of course they are HYUNDAIS under the "bonnet"
Grant have you checked out CARVANA? Also CARMAX.....both very upstanding places--- CARMAX really stands behind the sales-- and CARVANA is new and growing and aggressive as far as getting new clients and spreading the word--- good time to buy from them when they are hungry and LOOKING for clients---both are EASY on the buyer---CARVANA is all online you dont even have to DEAL with a SALESMAN ---the worst part of car shopping arguably --
Grant have you checked out CARVANA? Also CARMAX.....both very upstanding places--- CARMAX really stands behind the sales-- and CARVANA is new and growing and aggressive as far as getting new clients and spreading the word--- good time to buy from them when they are hungry and LOOKING for clients---both are EASY on the buyer---CARVANA is all online you dont even have to DEAL with a SALESMAN ---the worst part of car shopping arguably --
Bought my wife a brand new 2017 Honda Fit (her pick) last January and paid $15,000 OTD.
This one is made in Japan...not Torrance. Great car. Lots of room. 35-40mpg consistently.
They make cars in Torrance?
Yep.
Mr Grumpy
Ambassador of Comings and Goings
Sorry to hear that, Robert.
My cheap and scheming wife (good traits in a wife as long as she's on your side) spent $500 installing a LPG tank a couple of weeks after getting a new Honda (made in Thailand). I argued with her long and hard saying that it'd void the warranty, the engine would be destroyed, we will blow up as we're driving along, etc, she ignored me as per usual... 10 or so years later (can't even remember when we bought the car, but it was a long time and several countries ago - we leave it in Thailand at the house, so it gets used; she was back there using it the last 3 months herself; the first 5 years or so I drove it to work and back every day) - anyways, I digress, but we spend around 25% on the LPG that we would on gasoline and haven't had a single problem, just saving $$$.
OP
As long as it had been reasonably well-maintained is my main concern with buying used. Former rental cars are the worst. I do like the 10 year, 100k mile warranty on the new Hyundai cars
OP
I've been crunching some numbers, factoring in a 5% discount minimum that I know I can get from MSRP, maybe more. Adding 10% for tax and subtracting $13,000 that I think I can get for my Evo. I have several options that would put me under $200 per month to finance the remaining balance. I can get an Impreza for $122 per month. Currently I have been stopping into $tarbucks to get a Frapicino priced at $6.15. My monthly spend on this drink is $129. If I stopped supporting $tarbucks and bought the Impreza, I would gain an extra $7 monthly in the deal. Hmmm... Trade a coffee drink for a car and still have change to buy 1 $tarbucks per month and a new car to drive me there.
So this is where my plans are today. We'll just have to wait and see what life has in store for my plans. I do believe that those that fail to plan, plan to fail. I do try to plan ahead and factor in variables and alternative options just in case one plan is no longer an option. My wife tells me that I over think things. But dayum, then life walks up, throws you a curve ball and hits you smack in the face!
So this is where my plans are today. We'll just have to wait and see what life has in store for my plans. I do believe that those that fail to plan, plan to fail. I do try to plan ahead and factor in variables and alternative options just in case one plan is no longer an option. My wife tells me that I over think things. But dayum, then life walks up, throws you a curve ball and hits you smack in the face!
Session 5
Ambassador of Strings & Wings
Get a KIA!
365 hp Twin Turbo V-6--LUXURY sedanKia ...........STINGER BABY
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Actually for fun my Son and I went and test drove one-------- WOW------all the luxury of a BMW or Audi --- all the tourqes and HOOLIGANISM a rear wheel drive 365 hp berastie can muster 4 wheel race class brembos....point to steer headlights-- alll the techno babble gadgets---- ---and friggin TIRE FRYING launches.......
it aint yer average KIA!
And its got the Brembo brakes.
Session 5
Ambassador of Strings & Wings
Session 5
Ambassador of Strings & Wings
I have a 2014 Hyundai Santa Fe 2.0 litre Turbo just coming up 39,000 Killometers Its my second Santa Fe. Just itching to see the 2019s coming in August, I love these vehicles, I will be looking to trade up. The 2019s are the newest generation. The looks of these new ones are Fantastic!! But most of all I want a vehicle that's not in the shop every couple of months. Hyundai's are just so darn reliable. put 90,000 on my 2010, never in the shop. Just take it in for oil changes, tire rotation every 20,000 KMs, and I have the brake calipers cleaned and lubricated every 2 years.
OP
OK, so here is the story...
Last Friday I ordered a crate motor from Jegs website where it stated that the engine would be shipped in 30 days. they sent me an email confirming my purchase with an expected delivery days of 90+ days. That was not what I was sold, nor did I agree to wait 90+ days so I canceled the order, but was told they would not refund me until the place that was going to build the motor approved the refund. Blah blah blah. So the shop where my car is said that 30 days of taking up space waiting for an engine would be OK, but not 3 months. Also I can't keep my wife taking a bus or lyft for 3 months. RRE, the shop told me they may know someone that might buy my car. He was buying Evos and paid a guy $13,000 for a car in worse shape than mine. So I went back to shopping for a car that I could afford the payments with a $13,000 down. After shopping all weekend I found something that I could settle for and afford. I called RRE on monday to see if they contacted the guy about buying my car and he was not interested. So that leaves me back to making my car run again. RRE suggested another shop that would rebuild my engine as well as do all the pulling the old engine and putting the rebuilt back in. AAA said that either me or my wife had to be present picking up the car, or dropping it off. $30 lyft ride to RRE and my wife signed the AAA paper and got another $30 lyft ride home. The tow truck took my car 30 miles further away from home to the other shop. There she sits with an estimated time of 30 days until I can drive it again.
Last Friday I ordered a crate motor from Jegs website where it stated that the engine would be shipped in 30 days. they sent me an email confirming my purchase with an expected delivery days of 90+ days. That was not what I was sold, nor did I agree to wait 90+ days so I canceled the order, but was told they would not refund me until the place that was going to build the motor approved the refund. Blah blah blah. So the shop where my car is said that 30 days of taking up space waiting for an engine would be OK, but not 3 months. Also I can't keep my wife taking a bus or lyft for 3 months. RRE, the shop told me they may know someone that might buy my car. He was buying Evos and paid a guy $13,000 for a car in worse shape than mine. So I went back to shopping for a car that I could afford the payments with a $13,000 down. After shopping all weekend I found something that I could settle for and afford. I called RRE on monday to see if they contacted the guy about buying my car and he was not interested. So that leaves me back to making my car run again. RRE suggested another shop that would rebuild my engine as well as do all the pulling the old engine and putting the rebuilt back in. AAA said that either me or my wife had to be present picking up the car, or dropping it off. $30 lyft ride to RRE and my wife signed the AAA paper and got another $30 lyft ride home. The tow truck took my car 30 miles further away from home to the other shop. There she sits with an estimated time of 30 days until I can drive it again.