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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Maintenance and Repair / June 2006What brand/model car for say $8k for collge student
College student age 21 needs better car to go college with Budget is abt 8k. Maybe a bit more What brand/model you think in this range? Must be reliable and get decent gas mileage I'm thinking used Camry, Corolla, Sentra, Taurus? Possible? Any others to look for ? m...@privacy.net wrote: > College student age 21 needs better car to go college > with [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Possible? Any others to look for ? Toyota Camry or Corolla. Use Edmunds to identify which model years will fit in your price range. Se sure to look at maintenance records. > College student age 21 needs better car to go college > with [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Possible? Any others to look for ? Not Taurus. Unless college degree includes a course in rebuilding automatic transaxles. nate > > College student age 21 needs better car to go college > > with [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > nate Agreed Toyota would probably be a better choice. Kevin > College student age 21 needs better car to go college > with [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > I'm thinking used Camry, Corolla, Sentra, Taurus? > Possible? Any others to look for ? It will be difficult to find a reliable car for $8k. In Houston $8k will buy a 1999 Honda or Toyota with 100k miles. Yeah, it will go another 100k miles assuming it was well taken care of and you put about $200 worth of parts into it monthly. «» wrote: > > College student age 21 needs better car to go college > > with [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Yeah, it will go another 100k miles assuming it was well taken care of and you put > about $200 worth of parts into it monthly. If the OP lives in an area where rust is not an issue, a well maintained A1 or A2 chassis VW is probably available for less than $1k. I have owned several over the years, the one I had the longest was an '84 Scirocco that I bought for $900 with 180K on the clock, I probably drove it another 60-80K and sold for almost what I paid for it. nate "« Paul »" <" « Paul »"@houston.rr.com> wrote: >It will be difficult to find a reliable car for $8k. Ok...so what if he bumped his budget up to say 10k? > "« Paul »" <" « Paul »"@houston.rr.com> wrote: > > >It will be difficult to find a reliable car for $8k. > > Ok...so what if he bumped his budget up to say 10k? Its all subjective. What does he want? I have been doing some serious car shopping lately. Here in Houston a Honda Accord with 90k miles goes for $15k. So does an Accura. $10k will buy a worn out Camry/Corrolla with 90k miles. (I have not looked seriously at Toyotas because I think they are all ugly.) $25k will buy a small Lexus or Infiniti G-35 coupe with 50k miles. A good place to look is here: http://www.autotrader.com For myself, I'll probably get a 04 or 05 Pontiac Grand Am with less than 20k miles for around $10k. I'll replace the intake gasket every two years to stop the engine from self destructing. > College student age 21 needs better car to go college > with [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Possible? Any others to look for ? If it were me, since I'm not what you'd call trendy or stylish, I'd go with a mid-90's Camry wagon for reliability and utility. All good choices except the Taurus. Hondas are just as good as those Toyotas you mentioned. >If it were me, since I'm not what you'd call trendy or stylish, I'd go >with a mid-90's Camry wagon for reliability and utility Did the make a Camry wagon? Didn't know that > >If it were me, since I'm not what you'd call trendy or stylish, I'd go > >with a mid-90's Camry wagon for reliability and utility > > Did the make a Camry wagon? > > Didn't know that There are Accord and Corolla wagons as well. Not common. Seems no one likes to give them up until they've got many miles. Ebay search under Honda, Toyota, the word "wagon" to see. Wagons went away with the popularity of SUV's. |
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