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Location: Berlin | The wife and I are going to start looking for a new or barely used car. What deals are out there right now on new and what manufacturer? Any suggestions?? This will be my wife's car and we have three kids (10, 8 and 4 years old). It will need to get over 25mpg. Any help to narrow the search would be appreciated! |
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| The new Malibu is really a nice car. As is the Ford Fusion. Both would be tops on my list. Find one that is just a year old, and you could do pretty well on it. |
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Location: Lincolnshire, IL | Consumer Reports to pick it out, Edmunds.com to price it out.... |
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Location: LaCrosse, WI | My wife got an 09 Pontiac Vibe and I was really impressed. It has a lot more room than you might think, and the motor has a lot more snap than I expected. We took it to Chicago and got just under 40mpg.
She gets about 27mpg all purpose, but much better when she drives mostly highway miles. The back seats fold down flat, and so does the passenger seat so there is a ton of room in there when she takes all of her stuff scrapbooking. 4 adults can ride comfortably, you'd probably have to pile your kids in one to see how comfortable they are.
It also has either 6 or 8 air bags.
I highly recommend it.
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Location: Darboy USA | Since it will be a car or possibly small suv I would say look at all the foreign cars. I've owned Toyotas and Nissans and have zero complaints on either one. Great fuel economy, absolutely no maintenance issues and they run forever!! I have a Nissan Pathfinder for my work vehicle now and my lease is up at month end. I will be looking at Nissans, Toyotas, and Hondas for my next one. I put on 25,000 miles/year and never question the performance or reliability.
Not to mention all these carmakers are in better financial shape than the U.S. ones and have better deals right now from what I am finding out. Now if it was a pickup you were looking for I'd say buy a Ford, but that's a different argument!!  |
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Location: Berlin | How about the newer Corollas? |
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| Mr. Darboy - 7/6/2009 10:36 AM
Not to mention all these carmakers are in better financial shape than the U.S. ones and have better deals right now from what I am finding out.
Really?. All car makrs are down 35+%, and non of them are really what I would call better off financially. Unless you mean because the foreign companys are all subsidized for every single car they sell here by their government.
Yes, GM and Chrysler are in Chapt 11 now, but I expect they will come out of it, and be stronger companies. Look at some of the vehicles they are building now. Some of the highest rated vehicles are coming from the US carmakers. Fusion, Taurus, Malibu, Buick Lucerne, Cadillac's. It's not that the Toyots'a and Datsuns have slipped, it;'s that the American cars have caught, and bypassed the perceprion of superior Japanese quality in the past several years. |
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| Hey, what happened to your Chevy Outlander or whatever it was called? |
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Location: Darboy USA | Shep,
I meant that their are more financial deals to be had when looking at the foreign makers. I agree that the U.S. guys have made huge strides, but based on what I was being quoted for lease and buying deals in June, the lowest prices came from the foreign guys. |
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Location: Appleton wi | Rich my wife loves her toyoto avolon. We bought it used with about 38k 2 years ago on it and she and i love that car. New brakes is the only thing we have to spend money on with this car and comparing it to the piece of junk saturn l300(we bought new) we owned prior to the toyota we are very extremely happy with it! |
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Location: Berlin | Traded in the Uplander for a Trailblazer. Our Buick has 130,000 on it and time to get mamma something a bit nicer. We are going to check out some Corolla's this week hopefully. I will keep you posted. Thanks for the replies!! |
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| CAMRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!Purely for resale, holds value better than any other car on the road!
I sell mine just before they hit 100k miles and can still get 10 grand. I have always been a chevy man but 250-300k miles on a camry is normal without any major problems...Every Chevy or Chrysler I have owned "New" had major problems around 75k.
2 friends of mine just researched the economy cars and one chose the Prius the other the Honda the corolla was their second choice all three fit their needs and pricing was last on their list of needs. Chevy for trucks but I have been contemplating the new Toyota thanks to Walleye First hehe.......
Good Luck
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Location: Janesville | buy American, help support your own country in a time when things arent going well. my mom got a new malibu and its really nice plenty of room and a smooth ride |
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Location: Berlin | walleye slyr - 7/6/2009 9:26 PM
buy American, help support your own country in a time when things arent going well. my mom got a new malibu and its really nice plenty of room and a smooth ride
This is very important to me and I don't want this thread to turn ugly. I am considering all makes right now to get the best vehicle to fit the needs of my family. The Malibu is one of the cars we will be looking at. |
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