Best and Worst Car Purchases

[Koing]

Both of my car purchases have been very good 😀

96 Vauxhall Astra 1.4l with 83k miles on the clock for £600 and I put another 23k miles and it only cost £100-£120 in repairs for the first two years. CHEAP CHEAP MOTORING 😀

2002 S2000, £10.5k, love driving. Great car. No issues.

Koing

 

[Jeffg010]

The worst was 1982 ford escort. My parents bought that POS in 1989. I had it about 3 days when a hose ripped open smoking the car. Then 2 days later it kept stalling at every time I would come to a stop. I had to keep my foot on the gas to keep it from stalling. Then a week after that car really started to have trouble and could not keep the car from stalling. Some how my dad got that car to the local garage and they looked at it and it had 2 cracks in the block. My dad got anther block from the junkyard and tried to get it working. He got it working but it lost so much power that going up a hill you only get about 15 MPH. A couple of weeks later we sold it for $100.

The best car is my current 2005 ford Mustang GT it is a head turner. I feel like a king in that car I get so many complements on it.
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Jeff

 

[boomhower]

Worst: '93 Honda Accord I bought when gas prices shot through the roof. It was exactly what I was looking for, black with a 5 speed. I paid top dollar for it and it turned out to be a piece of crap. Every time I worked on I found some kind of screwed up redneck engineering. I still have it.

Best: The '09 Elantra I just bought. It was a C4C deal that I couldn't, $9700 OTD.

Some honorable mentions:

'98 Mercury Mountaineer I bought it with 130k in '06 and it gave me almost no issues. It had 160k when I turned it in for C4C and the drive train was still absolutely solid. It needed a ton of little things(windows regulator, shocks, etc.) but it still drove great.

'96 Sunfire GT I bought it with 60k on it for $5800. I drove it for a year and put 20k on it. My girlfriend of the time drove it through a light pole on the interstate.(she was fine) Insurance paid out $7800 on it.

I have been through 13 cards in my 11 years of driving and other than the Accord all of them have been pretty darn good cars/trucks.