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Originally Posted by HydroJim
I'm currently trying to convince him to buy a geo metro, learn how drive stick, and learn to fix it himself. Literally, for $2,000 in car and $1000 in tools, he could have a car that's cheap to repair and he could teach himself how to fix a car which is a life's worth of knowledge. But not everyone is a car person, so we'll see how it goes.
Hopefully we have a future ecomodder on our hands  |
Trying to steer him towards a cheap car that is easy to fix sounds like a good idea, but I think a Metro would be a hard sell to most people. Maybe look at a '96-'00 Civic. The Civic is popular because they are solid little cars that handle well (for a wrong wheel drive) and get good mileage. The efficient HX gets packaged with some upgrades over the base model, so even that wouldn't be hard to get him to go for.
If he is set on spending a bunch of cash on a newer car, it is hard to even recommend something without having some idea what he would be interested in.