If you’re so price sensitive $1000 is meaningful, well, uh try to find a solution to this crisis. I’m not saying one exists, but there are survival risks to poverty.
Lol. I’m not impoverished, but I want to cheaply experiment with having a car. It isn’t worth it to spend throw away $30,000 on a thing that I’m not going to get much value from.
Ok but at the price point you are talking you are not going to have a good time.
Analogy: would you “experiment with having a computer” by grabbing a packard bell from the 1990s and putting an ethernet card in it so it can connect to the internet from windows 95?
Do you need the minivan form factor? As a vehicle in decent condition (6-10 years old, under 100k miles, from a reputable brand) is cheapest in the small car form factor.
Not spending $30,000 makes sense, but my impression from car shopping last year was that trying to get a good car for less than $7k was fairly hard. (I get the ‘willingness to eat the cost’ price point of $1k, but wanted to highlight that the next price point up was more like 10k than 30k.)
Depending on your experimentation goals, you might want to rent a a car rather than buy.
Lol. I’m not impoverished, but I want to cheaply experiment with having a car. It isn’t worth it to spend throw away $30,000 on a thing that I’m not going to get much value from.
Ok but at the price point you are talking you are not going to have a good time.
Analogy: would you “experiment with having a computer” by grabbing a packard bell from the 1990s and putting an ethernet card in it so it can connect to the internet from windows 95?
Do you need the minivan form factor? As a vehicle in decent condition (6-10 years old, under 100k miles, from a reputable brand) is cheapest in the small car form factor.
Not spending $30,000 makes sense, but my impression from car shopping last year was that trying to get a good car for less than $7k was fairly hard. (I get the ‘willingness to eat the cost’ price point of $1k, but wanted to highlight that the next price point up was more like 10k than 30k.)
Depending on your experimentation goals, you might want to rent a a car rather than buy.