Car Shopping
This comes in from Bryan Stoudt, Director of Medical Campus Outreach:
After getting our car inspected the other day, our mechanic advised me to "find another car". With a time of more intense fund-raising on the horizon, this figures to be a significant need. We're hoping that one of you can point us in the right direction.
Ideally, here's what we're looking for:* low cost * relatively reliable* driver's side airbag* decent gas mileage. We'll be away from June 25-July 30, but will have access to email (bryanstoudt@thesmi.org), so please let us know if anything turns up.
Thanks so much!
Bryan & Sharon Stoudt
After getting our car inspected the other day, our mechanic advised me to "find another car". With a time of more intense fund-raising on the horizon, this figures to be a significant need. We're hoping that one of you can point us in the right direction.
Ideally, here's what we're looking for:* low cost * relatively reliable* driver's side airbag* decent gas mileage. We'll be away from June 25-July 30, but will have access to email (bryanstoudt@thesmi.org), so please let us know if anything turns up.
Thanks so much!
Bryan & Sharon Stoudt
posted by M Clark at 6/18/2007 02:17:00 PM
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One site that I mention in my Transportation, Buying and maintaining a car talk for the Managing your Money seminar is Car Sense: www.carsense.com They only sell used cars, and they have their entire inventory online. If nothing else it should help you to get the lay of the land, but I recommend them from personal experience.
The best informational site on buying a new or used car is Consumer Reports: www.consumerreports.org. Also see Edmunds: www.edmunds.com and Kelly Blue Book: www.kbb.com
Try to get a car 3-5 years old, it will have already experienced the most dramatic of its depreciation and should still have quite a bit of life left in it before encountering any major failures.
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