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I know what you mean. I bought my current pick-up, a 2007 Toyota Tacoma, in Arizona before I moved to Florida 4 years ago. I found it online and it started out at $19,500, too much for my income so I continued to look and every so often the price on this truck would drop some. Finally after 6 months, the price was $10,500 and I decided to drive across Phoenix to the dealership and look at it first hand. It look as good in person as it did on the internet. Low mileage, less that 6,000 miles per year.

So I asked the salesman what was wrong with it. He said nothing. It was during the time when Toyota was in the news about an accelerator sticking problem but he said the biggest problem he'd had in selling it was just one thing. It was a standard transmission. Just what I was looking for. He told me that no one who looked at it could drive a stick shift. Back in my day when I learned to drive, everyone had a stick shift. But today not so much. So I haggled them down another $1,000 and bought it for $9,500. Super deal. But that truck would have been gone in a short while if it had been an automatic.

Hopefully, it will be my last vehicle. I'm retired and live on a farm and don't put many miles on it.