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No, not crazy given your skills and your personal experience with this model and year. It sounds like a good plan imo.
It seems that the best cars get discontinued.....
ETA response to the mediocre comment: Nothing wrong with a mediocre car when you aren't substituting your car for your personality like many people do. Give me a good guy in a beater any day over an a---hole in a Maserati.
It has nothing to do with personality. The Fusion is a better experience for the driver. It's also significantly safer. In a crash, the Cavalier will crumple like a tin can and crush you. The Fusion has a strong safety cage that is probably several times as strong. Modern vehicles are just better
If you were to sell the Fusion and you don't care about safety, then sure. But turning an 85k Fusion you haven't even paid off yet into a garage queen? Makes no sense at all.
Replace Fusion with a roadster or a collectible, then it would make some sort of sense.
Buy a Cobalt before you buy a Cavalier or even a 2009-2011 Ford Focus were very reliable. Slow, but good on gas and reliable before the DCT transmissions came on the scene the next year.
A 13 year old car with only 50,000+ miles on it for a couple of thousand.
If I was into Cavaliers I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
In my area for $2000 they have 100,000 miles on them or better.
That would have been my response.
I don't understand the Cavalier hate. The car was what it was, just like almost every other one made in its class and price point. Some of you sound like you expect Benzes for Chevy prices.
We had two, a 1984 so a first generation. That car was absolutely bulletproof. It ended up going 400K with only maintenance and wear items replaced. That would have included a water pump. It did go through exhaust systems regularly.
The next one was a 2003. It ended up dying a premature death when my oldest daughter was clipped and went off the road. The car rolled twice laterally and one and a half times longitudinally, ending up on its roof. Her only injury was incurred crawling out of the car when she snagged her knee on a piece of side window.
I don't understand the Cavalier hate. The car was what it was, just like almost every other one made in its class and price point. Some of you sound like you expect Benzes for Chevy prices.
We had two, a 1984 so a first generation. That car was absolutely bulletproof. It ended up going 400K with only maintenance and wear items replaced. That would have included a water pump. It did go through exhaust systems regularly.
The next one was a 2003. It ended up dying a premature death when my oldest daughter was clipped and went off the road. The car rolled twice laterally and one and a half times longitudinally, ending up on its roof. Her only injury was incurred crawling out of the car when she snagged her knee on a piece of side window.
My second car was a 2 door Buick Skyhawk with the same 2.0L & 4 speed manual as the Cavalier. Very fun car to thrash as a teenager. Liked it so much I got a 1994 Cavalier RS sedan. While I have fond memories of those two cars, those fond memories don’t blind me to their faults. The worst of the faults was in the 90s Cavalier with the door mounted seatbelts. In a crash the door pops open and now there’s nothing holding you to the seat. Both were good starter cars when bought used as resale prices were horrible and I bought both used.
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