Quote:
Originally Posted by MazdaMatt
I didn't realize that a new miata was actually a reasonably affordable car (20k msrp). However, for me, 20k is more than I spent on my ONLY car.
|
If you ask me, NO new car is affordable, no matter what it costs. You lose too much driving it off the dealer's lot. But wait a few years, and today's latest hot new car will be available used, at a fraction of the price. I paid about $8K for the 2000 Insight I've been driving for the last 5 years. Before that, I think about $3500 was the most I'd ever paid for a car. That was a CRX, which I drove for about 10 years. (And likely would be driving still, if it weren't for a bit of water flowing over the local freeway - going backwards down the road at about 60 mph is not good for your engine :-() I hauled a lot of stuff in that two-seater, everything from bales of insulation to an airplane engine to a 140 lb Akita.
Anyway, between the CRX and an '80s Toyota 4WD truck (they seem to run forever) I spent about a third the price of a new Miata, or about what your "socially acceptable" new two-seater would cost, and I could do about anything except ferry large numbers of passengers.