Need a new car! Help?
 

So my 97 grand am finally is no longer worth fixing. Everything is rotted, literally almost everything. I need a car to get to my internship while I'm at school and will be driving to and from franklin & westfield on weekends. Looking for decently afforable, not horrible in snow, pretty good gas mileage and I preferably want it to last for a while. Also I would like to keep it from being horribly awful. So I have no idea what to get. Maybe like 2 years old? Not a piece of junk?

Ben will clearly be a huge helper in this decision but just want a larger sample of opinions :)
This is going to be the first not complete beater car I've ever bought sooo I have no idea what I'm doing! :D

gtp maybe? like midnights old car.

Saturn FTW!!! Hahaha. Ive had my 99 5 speed sl2 for awhile now and let me tell ya. Parts are cheep and it gets 30mpg all day long.

are you going to finance? if so that broadens the selection.

yes sir

I agree with the Saturn idea, you would save a ton of money on payments and the cars are cheap to fix and get amazing gas mileage. I'm also not a fan of car payments either.

that car is great if you want the perfect mix of performance and comfortability..without buying a caddie that is...gas mileage was like 19mpg city..so not ideal if MPGs are a concern.

hmm. i think a gtp may be too, idk intense? like i dont need the performance aspect. i need like one step above mom car, or even a mom like car if u know what i mean? lol.

I'm going to submit my typical suggestion for a kid my age looking for cheap reliable and fuel efficient transportation.

S^TURN PWR baby!!!!! :klab:

Saturns, Civics, Corollas, Matrix/Vibe, Yaris, Focus...all good on gas and pretty reliable

^maybe,no,no,no/no, no,no ahahahaha i cant stand the vibes tho only thing i hate more then those is the yaris lol

:qft:

Who's looking for a car here?

CHEVY CRUZE!!! hands down. fuck go buy a USED honda for what a Brand New Cruze is!!!! Thats my suggestion. drive oen you wont be sorry. and for 16k BRAND NEW its a no brainer.

I was saying around 2000's saturn sl1/sl2 just because you can find one for very cheap and very cheap to insure. I wouldn't lease/loan a car myself at my age. Too unstable.

v6 Fbody!!!!

well i wouldnt really either. but my parents are gunna help me out with paying for it. and yes... im a brat :)

you think? it looks like itd be something that fits my criteria lol

CRUZE!!!!!

go drive it.

lol ur nuts

get a 08+ civic ex-l gets great gas mileage can be had for 15k or so has leather heated seats etc the wife loves ours. It has 35k on it and all we did was tires and oil changes so far

whoaaa heated seats? lol.
dont take that as sarcasm, that fact actually excites me lol

or if you get the hybrid which i don't like the interior colors they get great mpg.

ben would be so disappointed in me lol.

Used Subaru from East Granby Motors

They are decently priced, and provide a bumper to bumper warranty for 6 Months and 1 Year on the engine!:nanawrench:

I was just thinking about it. I loved my Chrysler 300m while i had it. 4 door, v6 HO, power, leather, heated seats ect. Bigger and nicer then an sl1 or other small car. Got low to mid 20s with mixed driving. If i were to get another DD that wasn't a roller skate Id be tempted to get one again. Only major thing that ever went wrong was a dead coil pack. Car could scoot to, and handled very good for how big and heavy it was. Just tossing it out there cause its a step above a cheap car and a few steps below a new car with a large payment.

Its prob faster then bens iroc to lol Sorry ben.

thanks for all the suggestions everyone :)

I vote cruze as well! did some reading and looking into one myself

i know of a sweet s10 i can get you a good deal on ;)

hahahaaha noooo thanks. plus i cant see for crap in the s10.

moped :)

hahah no thanks

panther car..... crown vic, grand marquis... they are extremly comfortable and reliable. you can get one a few years old with 35k miles or so for about 8-9g last i looked. plus they get pretty damn good gas mileage... if you want more fun buy a b body. sure they are older but ive had 3 and have had good luck. all had under 30k miles and bought for less than 6g and this was within the past 4 years. i miss my roadmasters so much hahaha so im kinda biased. if i sell my chicken im going back to a fleety or a roadmaster

^i think thats a little bigger then she wants lol

how bout a fleet roadmaster ;)

cobalt ss...good mileage, quick and cheap

^^thisss

my staurn wagon gets 30mpg on the dot

new chevy cruze gets almost 40 in regular trim and if you gt the turbo eco it gets 47-50+. and its not gunna be a head gasket time bomb. saturns may be cool for people who can fix them. but if you jkust want soemthing to get in and go and not have to worry about it blowing up for the next 5 years buy new.

ohhh i can't fix crap. so get in and go is very important lol. especially when 8 months out of the year im 90 miles from ben. lol.