[spacemanspif]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

Very nice spreadsheet and record keeping. Your Excel skills exceed mine.

A numbers guy like you will make a good financial decision based on needs and wants.

Thanks, you're welcome to steal the formulas if you want. A quick Google on "if/then" formulas had me off and running. It all started back with my old Saturn when people would rag on me for driving an old car, I wanted data to back up my "when your car is as cheap as mine we can start comparing luxuries"; so when I bought my Focus I started the spreadsheet, and copied it for the Legacy. Since I buy all the parts for the cars it's easy to keep track, and my wife has been pretty good about giving me gas receipts and writing the miles on them for tracking purposes.

I guess she's dropped the idea tho, she's decided that we'd be better off keeping the money in our pockets than into a newer car. My Focus will succumb to rust soon and maybe I'll look into the Fusion or Prius for a replacement...the only thing the next car needs is an automatic trans so both can drive both cars in case 1 needs service...I'm not happy about it but she just doesn't like driving with a clutch.