Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 03:20:33 -0500 (EST) From: "superscript3" <superscript3-no-spamnopsamnet> Subject: best car for me
I'm planning to buy my first new car soon. I'm 26, male, currently about $1200 disposable income per month (after bills and food) and I want to buy a car sometime in the next six months. I don't have a problem waiting and saving money to make a bigger down payment to reduce monthly payments and apr. But I want to buy by next fall and I want to start thinking and planning about it now. I've read reviews for all the cars that look interesting to me, but there are a lot of factors whose importance I can't measure accurately from my perspective, since I've never been through the process of buying a new car. Also, since I've only been working for a couple years I don't know how well-developed my instincts are about managing my budget. So I want to get some opinions, suggestions, recommendations, insights that will help me to form a picture of the next car I should buy..from people who have been through this process and are wiser than I am. Here's a list of cars I really like from what I've read and seen: subaru wrx audi a4 1.8t passat saab 9-3 mercedes c230 infiniti g35 other suggestions... Here's how I would rate things I care about on scale 1-10 performance 9 luxury 7 prestige 8 styling 8 reliability/cust service 8 price(total cost of ownership) 10 I'm probably aiming a little high pricewise with most of these cars, but these are the ones that caught my attention. (i'm posting this individually to a bunch of different groups)