Buying a new car.

[BCReefer]

Thanks for the help. The reason I need to buy a manual is that my wife cannot drive a stick and I drive from Langley to Burnaby every morning. I currently drive a manual and it would be nice to use an auto, plus I have my 2nd child due in February. So if you have kids, having an automatic is nice.

I looked at the Dodge SX today <$15,000 and since I work for Ballard I am considered a Chrysler Employee and I get the employee discount. The car is about $3,500 less than the Nissan but form my experience people who own domestic cars seems to have more problems than Japanese.

My current car is a 93 Toyota Tercel with 285,000 KM, I have to rebuild the engine cause stupid me went 15,000 KM without an oil change. I just feel better with a Japanes car but I feel better with lower payments of a domestic or Korean.

I have checked several magazines and they don’t rate the Dodge Neon as a recommended buy but the Sentra does.

Can I safely say that regardless of which car I buy, unless it is a real known lemon, that as long as I do my oil change every 6,000 km, change the transmission fluid when required that most cars will last me 200,000 with out requiring a new engine or transmission.

I can tell you one thing, I have been researching this for over a month, test driving car after car and I feel sick to death about signing on the dotted line.

Why couldn’t I have been born rich instead of being so handsome?

:P