I'm not going to buy a Tesla

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

26. It would be a fairly old Fit that would go for $5K.

Probably 10 plus years old, and well over 100k miles.

While my last several cars have all been second hand, I prefer to purchase a fairly new one with reasonably low mileage, especially as I have been putting quite a lot of miles on the cars once I have them. I also tend to purchase from a dealer, because I'm acutely aware that there's a lot I don't know about cars and I am willing to trust a dealer.

Car buying has changed a whole lot in my lifetime, and since we can now got a heck of a lot of information on the internet, I feel as if buyers have a lot more power anymore. I actually went through a period of time a while back where I bought three cars in six weeks. The first two were because my sons each totalled a car (no one was hurt) a week apart, and then my car blew a head gasket, so I decided to replace it. And neither one had owned the car that got totalled for more than a year, so I bought five cars in a bit over a year. Buying a car isn't scary at all for me.