before the one will take um
okay let's see i guess um
i can start i'm actually we're actually trying to find one now because our family's growing yeah
are you really
um
so i'm looking at um something larger than what we have we've got like an eighty four Charger that's about gone and a uh an eighty nine Horizon
uh-huh which are both kind of small
so i'm looking for something a little bigger yeah um
so we were thinking minivan for a while and uh we're looking at uh some just some four door five passenger sedans as well
uh-huh are you looking for an American car or you you open to buying foreign cars
um i don't really have a preference either way i guess it you know it's
uh-huh
you know i guess the American cars had a bad reputation but i haven't had any real substantial problems with the ones i've had
uh-huh
right
personally i have a Japanese car right now and i really like it a lot uh i think the Japanese really build good cars and i know that kind of rubs against the grain right now in the whole uh
um-hum
you know buy American keep American auto workers working right now but i feel that the Japanese have really produced a much higher quality product than our uh car manufacturers have for a while if i were to buy another car i would be uh
yeah
i would be partial to buying another Japanese car but i would also look at American cars but when i bought the car that i bought now i did that also and i just felt that the Japanese car was a much better product so if i were
yeah i mean even even if it's just little details it seems like uh they you know like uh there's a door seal that doesn't quite seal and you have to take it back every once in a while and and it's clearly just a a design problem there
right
right it is um i'm kind of right now the next car i buy is gonna be
sort of a sports car i would really like to have a sports car um i don't really i don't have a family so i don't need a a minivan or such to uh haul people around in
um-hum
so i'm looking for more a a two passenger car that uh
oh like a Miata or something like that
well i like the Miata but i don't like it enough to buy it i would buy something actually the the car that i really like right now is an Eagle Talon which is an American car but uh
um
something along that lines
uh because i have a an economy car right now which is okay but uh i think i i'd like to move on to something a little better
interesting
yeah
that's interesting yeah i guess probably the factors we'd use to compare are a little different because i look for you know size and safety and then mileage probably
right
right that's when i bought the car that i bought i was looking for mileage and i was looking for uh dependability and something that was going to last a long time i was get that i would get a
uh-huh
for the money that i was going to spend that i would get a return that was that was worth that money
yeah yeah i can i think in terms of computer terminology i look at you know price performance and things like that
so
right exactly
and then a little bit at life expectancy i guess but it you know depends on what you
yeah
what you pay initially but you know i've got a hundred and twenty five thousand miles on the Charger actually it was my wife's car that she brought into the marriage
um that's right
uh-huh
and she got just a commute between Cincinnati and Dayton
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it's you know we we had to replace the friction plate and the transmission at thirty thousand miles but
uh-huh
um the other ninety four thousand have been just fine with it so
okay
but uh
uh i've had uh
i've had one or two American cars i think and
and they were okay i had a Pontiac once and and i never had a problem with it but
uh my mother had a Dodge at one point and i i had driven it a few times and i really did not feel that it that i would buy a Dodge just just from well actually i had a uh
um
a Dodge Omni at one point and that was i think what really prejudiced me against American cars was because i did not feel that it was a very quality uh
um-hum
car
yeah
so i guess you'd have to say if i was looking i would definitely be looking for a foreign car
that's interesting
but yeah it it's hard to beat some of the uh
like i guess we're in particular we're looking at a like a ninety one Corsica that's uh buy back at a they say GM sponsored auction but i think they're obliged to have these things because
Hertz and Avis and those folks have it in their contract that they can sell it back to GM
um-hum
after you know it's after they've used it for six months and put you know twelve or fifteen thousand miles on it and you can get those for like eight thousand bucks if you
right
which is a good deal
yeah
because uh i guess um i mean well ninety two's granted but the new ones you know fourteen to sixteen is what they go for
um-hum
right
on the lot so all the depreciation has been taken off and
guess the dealer comes out okay you know i don't know what kind of i don't know what GM corporate kind of hit the i don't know what kind of hit they take on it but sounds like everybody's had their chance to make their money off of it
yeah that
yeah i'm sure they did
so but uh i don't know we keep looking at that minivan it's just you know we can get a like a Caravan for right twelve five but that's a little more than we want to spend right now
uh-huh
right
but uh
uh it's interesting but uh
i don't know if if uh it it seems to be
