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I bought a 1992 Nissan Sentra yesterday for $300. Runs and drives, needs the manifold and egr passageways cleaned to eliminate stumbling and stalling at idle. Maybe $30 in gaskets. Pretty bulletproof little cars. My wife drives a 2012 KIA Sorento she bought new and paid cash for it at purchase. She pays all of her driving expenses and she also does not want a small car, says she feels safer in the big one that sits high and gives here better visibility. I like the idea that if her car breaks she just calls KIA, they pick it up and provide here with a loaner.
I saw a Huge GM land yatch at a salvage auction that had 435,000 miles when it was finally totalled.
That's over $100,000 in fuel cost alone. I built a house with that money I did not spend on gas. It was the equivalent of about $800 a month for over a decade.
I wouldn't be married if I tried to make my wife drive that old a vehicle.
Of course everyone's situation is different. I'm too old do do much serious wrenching on cars any more after 60,000 hours of doing it for a living.
regards
Mech
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