Help Dillinger pick out a car!

[Dillinger]

I live in indianapolis so it snows like crazy for three months dec-feb.

I have a bunch of bills and a huge house note. So I want to stay around the three to five hundred dollar car note.


I was thinking about leaseing because I don't like keeping cars for that long. But I don't know that much about leases?

I only have me and my wife to transport NO KIDS thank god.


Some of the cars I had in mind where

Nothing before 2001
Suv's

Ford Explorer 4X2

Pontiac Aztek

Hyundai Santa Fe

Ford Escape

Sports Car's

Toyota Celica

Mustang

Mercury Cougar

Hyundai Tiburon

I would like to have a Convertible, but they are easy to break into. Do they make any cheaper hard top Convertibles.

I would really like to take a stock car and mod it up. But is that kind of corny?


Thanks

 

[check_mate_kid_uk]

mate if you only have $300-$500 to spend how can you afford to be picky about a car? you cna barely get a car with that money, my bike (as in bycylce, not motor bike) cost me almost double that, so you should just be looking at somtihng that does not look to crap and somtihng that will not fail you on a cold day.

 

[Dillinger]

The job I'm at will up my pay by over 20k in the next year or two. So I am flexiable as far as going over 500-700

But in U.S a 600 or 700$ car payment is for a Escalade, or lexus.

I have wide range between 300-600$

 

[Abbott]

Originally posted by check_mate_kid_uk
mate if you only have $300-$500 to spend how can you afford to be picky about a car? you cna barely get a car with that money, my bike (as in bycylce, not motor bike) cost me almost double that, so you should just be looking at somtihng that does not look to crap and somtihng that will not fail you on a cold day.

I think he meant $300-$500 per MONTH, as opposed to $500 overall. $500 overall would buy you something that barely runs. At least, that's how I read it.

Dillinger, what I'd do is figure out how much overall it'll be if you can afford $500/month (or whatever the figure is). Then figure out what's the best choice for you for motorcars in your price range. It'd help if you knew how much overall you can afford.

Come back when you've figured that out. I don't know how much overall you can afford if you lease so I can't help you there. If you wanted to do payments to slowly buy the motorcar (like how most people do) then I'd figure it, but you didn't want to do that, so....

Ben