Good for you. I'm too cheap to buy a new car. Way back when Pintos cost about 4000 bucks, I would. And when I worked in St. Louis, I bought a new car every 3-5 years.
After a while, it was just too much cost, and when you drove it off the lot, it was more than 5000 bucks depreciation if you had an accident.
So I started buying used cars, dodge colt wagons, and Honda civic hatchbacks mostly. Sometimes a new car that had been on the lot so long it was more than 6 months into the next model-whatever it was had to be good on gasoline because I racked up the miles with 150 mi. per day round trip.
Then when Dad had a stroke and I had to take him to St. Louis for Dr. several times per year, I bought an Odyssey Van. He was just too tall to be able to get in and out of the Dodge colt with ease, and even after he was in, his legs were cramped.
I liked it so much, that's what I have done ever since. Usually whatever they have in the 6000-10000 bucks range with 130000 miles or less. Seats Seven so I can take all the grand kids and great grand kids on trips when this crap is over and life is normal again.
I was also fond of my little GMC compact 4 wheel drive truck. It was nifty for hauling hay and feed to the horses, and to take the saddle etc. out to saddle up for a trial ride. I considered getting another truck in 2018, but wound up getting the van - no truck was big enough for all the kids.
Best car I ever had was a Dodge Colt Wagon-5 speed. Man that thing was the smoothest shifter I ever drove (our driver's ed. was in the summer with a stick shift-loved them). Up until the Van I never owned a car that was an automatic.
It was a good thing it was easy shifting. I broke my right arm at the elbow and wrist when the horse I was riding fell down. Had to ride 6 miles to get back to the house, because we were out in the tiff cuts.
Then the high way shut down, and we had to wait 2 hrs. before we could get out to get to the hospital. Oh and the elbow was out of joint too.
Darned xray guy accidentally popped it back in place. Dad's final career was a Paramedic. Boy was he steamed about the xray guy-could have had a bad outcome.
Also that colt wagon had 150000 miles on it and never had to do anything except routine maintenance. However, one morning I checked the oil, added a quart, and somehow or other got distracted and didn't get the cap back on. Ruined some seals-mechanic couldn't fix it completely. Got a few more miles out of it before one of the pistons cracked.
I gave it to my son-in-law(he was a car junkie), and he said he had never seen such a clean engine. Any way he re-did the whole thing and they drove it and it had 200000 miles on it when it was totaled by someone rear-ending my daughter while she was sitting at a stop light late one evening. The end of tales from the Country. Ha.
200 Companies Oppose Voter ID Laws–Many Require IDs for Use of Service
Quick scan, and I didn’t see a link to the company list - might have missed it. Boy that list of companies to avoid is gonna grow huge the way it’s going.
I used to have an 84 colt turbo GTS. That was a fun car. Picked it up at a salvation army auction, for a $100. Drove it until I loaned it to a friend and he totaled it.