what kind of car do you drive now
i drive a Honda Prelude and
do you i drive a Honda Accord
oh yeah
yeah
i bought mine a year ago so i'm not buying a car any time soon
yeah me either i just bought mine uh it'll be a year in August
yeah
i love it though i love Hondas
yeah it
i think i found my car
well i i like where all the controls are
right
they're they're in good spots and i i have an automatic i can't drive a standard
oh really i have a standard
yeah
but um i it's and it's
supposedly real reliable the only thing i've ever heard about Hondas is that the breaks go out first yeah
oh really i hadn't heard that
yeah
what did you have before you bought that
i had a Buick Regal
did you
yeah
i had uh Mazda RX seven before that and that was the worse car i've ever driven in my life
the Buick was was great it was nine years old and and it was still going strong the only
really
problems i had had with it in nine years that i owned it i had to replace the compressor when it was about seven years old
really
and
that was the only major problem that i had i mean i had little piddly things like i had to replace the muffler and i had replaced the tires and
yeah
uh seems like it had a radiator leak once but i never had any major anything other than the compressor
right
i never really had anything major with my Mazda but it was a standard also and the clutch went out on it toward the end i had it five years
and the last year or last two years it seemed to go out really easily i think it went out twice in two years
and that's that's a lot it shouldn't go out that much
no hm
and so i went ahead and bought another standard when i bought the Honda but i don't think i'm going to do that again i think i'm going back to automatic now
well i never well well i kind of know how to drive standard but i've never owned one so i hadn't i don't drive one a lot so i don't feel feel comfortable in traffic with it
right
right
and for everything i've heard it's a lot easier to sell an automatic
yeah it is
and
that's true
and resale value is really important to me
yeah it is me too that's why i got the Honda Hondas have great resale value
yeah
yeah
the Mazda definitely did not not at all
they're worse than American cars i think or just as bad as far as resale goes
really
i did pretty well with my uh Regal because it was in really good shape but it still looked real nice the the interior was still really nice there what'n cracks all over the dash board and stuff and
yeah
right
and it had some some nice features so i ended up okay with the Buick
good
and i anticipate the same thing with the Honda whenever i decide to sell it course i may never sell it
right
i may drive it till it's dead but
yeah that's what i did with the Mazda drive it till the till the clutch went out and the wheels fell off so probably what i'll do again
yeah
yeah
but i really like the Hondas i like foreign cars a lot
um-hum
yeah
i looked at the Mitsubishi Galant i was looking for a four door car having driven the RX seven so long and it was so small
uh-huh
and it's really impractical so i wanted something with a real trunk and four doors something easy to get in and out of and i looked at the Galant and those were really nice and you can get them for a great price
yeah
but i found it hard to deal with the dealership i was going through so that's how i ended up with a Honda
oh
hm i wasn't even looking for a car when i bought this car i uh
i was thinking about buying a Prelude from a friend who was moving to New York or something so
and she was gonna sell her car because she didn't need it anymore and it was only like a year old
and i had never driven uh a Prelude so i went to a dealership because they had like uh the same year and same model of Prelude on their used car lot and i went and i test drove it
right
and you know i just fell in love with this brand new white Prelude
oh yeah
you know two liter SI with the the sun roof and the moon roof and i i bought it loaded
they're nice i think
oh yeah
oh yeah i have to have them loaded i i love all those little things that you don't need but they're so wonderful
i mean
yeah
yeah i went there looking at a used car and two days later i bought this car i i felt i felt like
that was the worst impulse that was that was the largest impulse buy i had ever made the other the two other things that i've bought on impulse are VCR and a washer and dryer i go for the big stuff
i would say
yeah i noticed
yeah
mine was definitely not impulse i really needed a new car mine was just it's getting worn out i guess from being a sports car i drove it kind of hard
yeah
and i got it right after high school so
by the time i traded it in it was ready ready to go
yeah i got
i got my Buick as a high school graduation gift
did you
yeah but i i guess this what'n really an impulse i mean buying it right then and you know right quickly was kind of impulsive but i'd been thinking about buying a new car for three years and i was just scared to
right
i was scared to start taking on payments because the Buick was long since paid for
right that's same with me would you ever buy a used car for a new car for yourself
buy a buy a buy a used car sure
like
right
i i was going to buy one once and i just i worry about who's driven them and what they've been through and
the warranties and things like that just i can't seem to get over that that just bothers me i don't know why
yeah
well um like on Hondas
they supposedly the maintenance records are supposed to be registered with Honda or whatever and you can request whatever maintenance records exist on cars and you can have them checked out by mechanics and stuff
yeah that's true
mean they can't stop you from doing it so
hoping that they do go to a Honda dealership to get them serviced
yeah
yeah
well and even if they didn't you can still get a good idea from a if you can get a good mechanic to check it over real carefully and check the blocks and everything
yeah
that's true
so
well
i guess that's all
okay well i enjoyed talking to you
i enjoyed talking to you bye-bye
bye-bye
