How much $$$$ have you spent?
I hear how stupid I am all the time from people about the amount of money i put into my Duster..All the while they are sitting in a 20XX model whatever that they paid $30,000 for that will be worth $6 per hundred pounds 40 years from now...
That is so true, you never catch me spending more then say $12-14,000 on a car. 3--4 year old cars are just fine if they were driven nice and oil's been changed.
No way I'm paying $30,000 plus on say the new 2012 Buick Regal with a 4 banger when cars like the 2008 Pontiac's G6 with a V6 and around 30,000 miles you can find for $15,000 or less.
And that's for the wife to drive, ha ha.
I got by for many years with a 1992 Olds Ceria with a V6 till about rusted in half, there was large holes in the sides, weak heater but a/c worked fine so I left it alone. Good thing I never hit anything with it, got me around 21 mpg, the same as this 2008.
Cars can be so expensive and still its not prefect, so screw it, a $5--7,000 ride works just fine.