NEXT STEP AFTER A GEN 2

Nah I buy another gen too for next to nothing. Transfer my good parts off the car that is supposedly going to hell or gotten wrecked or whatever's happened New hybrid battery all that stuff over to the new to me other Gen 2 and keep getting it No there's a lot of these cars out there and really good shape with a small dent in the back that have been totaled by insurance and are sitting places ready to be scooped up with all the maintenance up to date and been well kept some even owned by old people they're just sitting You know why because everybody thinks like this post oh it's too old blah blah blah these cars make 600k pretty easily so you're one with $140,000 or 160 210 You're just broken in good You're looking for things to get out of the car which is what people start doing You don't want to put a break accumulator or change an engine if it blows up 1 NZ engines are near free I've 4 of em sitting here ready to go. I could have more if I wanted but I have to keep my wants desires and needs in check. Interior parts and all that last few of these I bought were like 600 bux . Many states you can get a rider from DMV for chk lite on I've done it. All a process . I own 2 gen3 including a persona the women drive those thankfully.replaced engine and trans in a gen3 about 2300 total and I did not do it. JDM parts were used . I can't do anything for the cost of keeping my Gen 2 on the road. Is no possible. Anything I go and look at from Gen 3 2010 on up is going to cost more money than it will ever keep to keep my Gen 2 running any of them so I don't do it most people don't even see again to in their peripheral vision It doesn't exist to them it's an old piece of excrement to most people That's just how I like it No one has any interest in it except unfortunately the catalytic converter thieves which is not really ramping around here because in the county I live in I can have a check engine light and the PO420 code and still get inspected All I get is a safety no emissions Orange county North Carolina.

 

it's a tough decision i hope you don't have to make. if i were forced to because of a total, i would look for a 2016 to tide me over until the market for gen5 is realistic

 

Like bisco says, a 2016 is probably the next rung on the ladder if you want to avoid the gen 3 problems.

The prices you mention are all over the place - 48k, 50k, 52k, 30k, 31k, 15k..... You might get better advice if people knew your actual budget?

 

Hello. Curious why a 2016 and not 2017 or 2018? Thank you in advance.

 

I try to keep my needs wants and desires and check. And I realize that a car is a tool like a nail gun or a hammer when it does wear out it's time to make choices to do something else. The idea is to get where you're going and get out of the car we don't want to live in it generally it's a tool it's not an investment it's not going to return anything to me when I'm finished with it because when I'm finished with it it will be dead there may be some parts on it that I can transfer over to another like same car but it will be basically dead like when the handle breaks on a hammer or all the rubber comes off whatever you get another one so you can what keep working. A car is not something that I would use to try to keep up with the Joneses. But to some like adolescents and younger folks vehicles are some sort of status symbol course generally then parents are paying.

 

I get it .

My sentiments also. I've never been a "new car" guy. Let someone else take the depreciation hit instead.