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Originally Posted by MikeCStig
If you're looking for a car for less than $4000 steer clear of anything domestic unless it's a pickup truck. You mentioned an interest in something Japanese, that is a good start. Honda and Toyota are the best two in terms of reliability (except the prius, those things are a boring headache on wheels) Subaru is another brand to look into. Nissan makes some decent cars too, but they are a bit hit-and-miss in terms of which model, so be careful. Mitsubishi... I can't think of any that aren't late models outside of your budget that are worth considering.
If you could be more specific in what you're looking for in a car, automotive preferences, likes or dislikes, I'd be able to give you a much less vague answer. Maybe post a link to some pics of cars you're looking at.
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Thanks for the reply, let me be more specific on what I'm looking for :
basically, right now, I own and use everyday a very nice toy (made from pontiac) that I want to keep as a week end car. It has very low miles on it and want to keep it that way.
In that matter, I am looking for a new daily driver that is kind of comfy, good on gas, RELIABLE, cheap and easy to maintain (I like to work on my cars) automatic transmission and a decent trunk etc the good looking part of it, I really don't mind if it's a ugly car lol
I was looking for buicks with the v6 3800 engines, I heard they're very strong but still have a lot of issues specially with windows.
Now, for Hondas, I owned a lot in the past (like 8) and still have one in my garage (s2000). I always been amazed by their reliability specially with my first civic Sir that I used on racetracks back in the days. I put like 60000 miles on it, never been a very tender foot with it and never had any issue ! Nowadays, I'd like to avoid civics because they are not cheap for insurance (in this country at least) because they get stolen quite a bit and usually younger people owned them and they do bad things to them. Accords look like a good alternative but the 2000 era seems to have huge issues with the automatic transmissions and as you can guess, I don't wanna spend a couple of thousand dollars changing the transmission. Crv's look nice but high priced ...
Toyota, I can see a corolla, why not, but once again, high priced.
What about the lexus is300 ?
Thanks for your help and hoping to find a good car.