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Starting to look for a used car for the wife who is a new driver.
Would you go with a older car with relative low mileage or a newer car with relative high mileage?
For example a 2004 with 80k miles or 2006 with a 100k miles.
Also would appreciate your recommendations for a used car; make and model for safety first then reliability second for $5k and under. I live in the NJ so something in a midsize with 4 doors, AWD and memory seats would be preferable.
I am kind of leaning towards 2004 Jaguar X-Type 3.0.
Appreciate your thoughts and comments and many thanks in advance!
Um. You're talking reliability, but then you're talking Jaguar?
Safety is the primary concern and reliability is second. Would love to have both but with the features I am looking for such as AWD and memory seats... not sure if both can be had.
Also been researching on the X-type and it looks like it is relatively ok starting 2004 model year. I think it got 8 out of 10 in reliability. Also with the luxury makes, they seem to load up the car with relative up to date safety features.
But would appreciate your thoughts on why you would rule out the X-Type.
I generally lean towards lower mileage, but since those cars are relatively close in mileage and age, their overall condition and price would also be big factors.
In regards to safety, you cannot really go wrong with most modern cars.
As for reliability, I dunno. I have not heard much about the Ford Jags. It scored an 8 out of 10 in what? Who did the rating?
Actually, relative to a lot of cars you could have picked, the X type isn't terrible, but given that it blue books around 8 grand for the 2004, I'd be suspicious of any one you could get for less than $5k.
i think it was in msn auto that rate the x-type pretty well in reliability for the 2004 model year.
Of course I was doing this 2AM on my smartphone so I could be totally off.
Actually, relative to a lot of cars you could have picked, the X type isn't terrible, but given that it blue books around 8 grand for the 2004, I'd be suspicious of any one you could get for less than $5k.
I'd go for low mileage over low age overall.
Initially I had the same concerns then I went on to one of jag forum site and it seems many have purchased the x-type for below what blue book stated. Of course regardless of this, will do the due diligence.
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