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Wrong thread babe. It was 80 in Salisbury today.
##################################################When we were first married we always bought old cars we could pay cash for, but we were putting out upwards of $200 a month on repairs...I finally insisted that the next car we get be new. Yeah, we had car payments, but they equalled the repair bills we'd been paying and we didn't have the hassle. Since then we've bought two more new cars, one with cash. Both are cars are now FORDs, a focus and a taurus and we love them both. Our Taurus was slightly used when we bought it, it had $6,000 miles on it. That was almost 10 years ago and we've had very few problems with it. Well worth buying the newer car for us.
I've had ONE CAR in the last twenty years. I bought my mothers Ford Taurus from her that she bought new. Nice car, but only had it for a year and sold it. Now I have a '97 GMC 4X4, fire engine red with a four inch lift and a five speed tranny. I love that truck. My other car is my Harley. A 2006 35th Anniversary Dyna Super Glide, #0793 of only 3500 made. That's the only new vehicle I've ever bought in my life. I too prefer buying good used cars and trucks. The most depreciation happens on a new car in the first two years after purchase. Look for cars that are just a few years old with low miles that someone took good care of and you'll find a great bargain.
I picked up a 99 Taurus with 60k on it for $1,000.
Those Tauruses have a few common problems, like a heater core that perpetually clogs, wipers like to intermitently come on for a pass or two out of nowhere, and did not have an available aftermarket installation kit for a CD player if you were unfortunate enough to have only the cassette model, until just recently.
Overall though it's a good car and for $1,000 I pretty much STOLE it.
I live in Wisconsin so the heater got a work out. Never had any problems with that. But you're right about the wipers. They worked, but the timer for intermittent passes was all messed up. I don't recall if mine had a CD player or not. It was a '97 Taurus. It had a darker rust colored paint job with factory, aluminum wire mags, and the interior was a dark charcoal fabric. Very nice looking and very comfortable. I'm no Ford fan but this was a nice car. The other thing that I didn't like though was even though the engine ran good and had plenty of spunk, if you punched it a little too much the trans would shift down a gear too far and not shift back up unless you backed off the throttle, consequently the engine would over rev. Seems to me Ford could have programmed shift points into the tranny to shift it up when the engine reached a designated rpm, instead of just going by throttle position.
In any case, yes, I think you did outstanding on a '99 with 60K miles for a grand. They are reliable cars.