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Location: The city of White Bear Lake, just outside Minneapolis, and St. Paul
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I have recently been looking to buy a car these are my pereferences:
-It has to be some what fuel-efficient (20-40 mpgs would be ideal)
- needs to be a car
-$0-$10,000
-needs too look nice, and have a well respected maker (BMW, Audi, Jaguar, Ect.)
- not too small ( exp. Mazda MX-5)
-Needs to run some what good
Thank you, post any suggestions please, your help is appreciated
I have recently been looking to buy a car these are my pereferences:
-It has to be some what fuel-efficient (20-40 mpgs would be ideal)
- needs to be a car
-$0-$10,000
-needs too look nice, and have a well respected maker (BMW, Audi, Jaguar, Ect.)
- not too small ( exp. Mazda MX-5)
-Needs to run some what good
Thank you, post any suggestions please, your help is appreciated
Sounds like you are on a budget. You can cross off "well respected maker" of junkpiles off that list. Nobody confuses VW products (i.e. parent company of Audi) for being respectable once you get passed the new leather smell...
I'm sure someone who is not "this close" to bedtime will chime in with the usual run of econoboxes that you really can't go wrong with.
Old Jetta's are nice and you can get a fuel efficient turbo 4. You could also look at something like a used late model Malibu maybe. Find something with a good interior that's quiet.
I have recently been looking to buy a car these are my pereferences:
-It has to be some what fuel-efficient (20-40 mpgs would be ideal)
- needs to be a car
-$0-$10,000
-needs too look nice, and have a well respected maker (BMW, Audi, Jaguar, Ect.)
- not too small ( exp. Mazda MX-5)
-Needs to run some what good
Thank you, post any suggestions please, your help is appreciated
Here is a list of three things...
Cheap, Reliable, Premium
You get to pick two of those, not all three. So, decide what's important and let us know.
You can get Jaguars plenty cheap, although those aren't the most reliable cars.
That's an understatement...consistently on the bottom of Consumers Reports reliability ratings...in the north country I would add all wheel drive to my list of must haves...suggest one of the Subaru models...lots of choices there.
-needs too look nice, and have a well respected maker (BMW, Audi, Jaguar, Ect.)
I guess "well respected maker" is really subjective. All those cars are unreliable. What they are, though, are status symbols. So, you want a status symbol. Why? I know people with each of those brands of cars, and none of them come close to any of the Saturns I have owned in terms of how the car has respected me.
I have recently been looking to buy a car these are my pereferences:
-It has to be some what fuel-efficient (20-40 mpgs would be ideal)
- needs to be a car
-$0-$10,000
-needs too look nice, and have a well respected maker (BMW, Audi, Jaguar, Ect.)
- not too small ( exp. Mazda MX-5)
-Needs to run some what good
Thank you, post any suggestions please, your help is appreciated
Well-respected manufacturer? The ones you refer to are status symbols and none are particularly reliable ESPECIALLY if you're looking with a budget of under $10K.
For that kind of money, you aren't going to get a nice luxury vehicle and you shouldn't even look for any. If you do find one, it's going to be a money pit and it sounds as if you cannot afford expensive repairs.
Why not find a nice used Chevy Impala, Mazda 6, Ford Fusion, etc? Certainly much cheaper to repair, all are fairly reliable, and they're in your budget.
Get the notion of your head that a German vehicle automatically equates to wealth because it doesn't (and usually the opposite is true).
Well-respected manufacturer? The ones you refer to are status symbols and none are particularly reliable ESPECIALLY if you're looking with a budget of under $10K.
I wonder how I've managed to find quite reliable "status symbols" under $10k...
Only unreliability in my $7500 BMW 740iL was not the fault of the car, but the situation at the time (flash flood). And so far the $1200 BMW we bought our daughter in law has not needed anything but new spark plugs and an oil change to be reliable.
My suggestion since you are still in school and currently driving a Patriot, keep what you got until you graduate from high school and then college, then get something nice and unless you already have a very good paying job.
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