i'm i'm a student at in college right now so i'm not really in the market for a car i have one though i bought this past summer a used car which i you know hope it will last me for a while um but uh i guess
it it fits my needs pretty well it's a um a Ford uh Tempo
and uh it's sort of you know nice car not not really you know huge and and a tank but uh big enough so that you can fit people in the backseat so you know it's nice when i go places with other people
uh-huh
uh and uh and there's sort of an ordinary car it seems fairly reliable
right
the i i drive a Honda Prelude and uh i i drove it when i was in college i drove a sixty eight Chevy Impala
how about you
and i drove once i got out i i have i work for AT&T now so i have a real job
oh
and i
and i my friends kept telling me that i could afford a better car but they said but i was happy with my Impala so i drove that for about three years till it completely died and then i got the Prelude
and i think if i were to buy another car right now i think i'd buy another Prelude i really like it
yeah they're they're pretty nice they're kind of sporty right i if i have the right thing pictured yeah
uh-huh yeah it's a two door
if i i suppose if i was going out and buying a new car i might
possibly buy something like that um
but you know i'm i'm pretty happy with what i have now as i said the other the other kind of thing a friend of mine just got a new car got a Ford Explorer
and they're kind of neat cars although they have their draw backs i mean they're they're you know they're kind of big and whatever but uh when it comes to sort of um
you know moving stuff around which i find myself doing fair amounts since i tend to sort of move about twice a year at this point um that kind of thing thing would be very handy um
right
but uh yeah i don't again i don't really have any uh you know strong preferences when i bought my car uh you know the major criteria was that it uh
you know be something that was rated fairly good for reliability um
and uh you know not too expensive and you know decent looking but uh
right
and i i ended up getting a a pretty good deal on the car i got and i'm i'm very happy with it it's not it's not you know i suppose if i'd the maximum reliability i would've gotten from a Japanese car but um they also sell for much more especially used
and i sort of decided that it probably wasn't worth the price difference but uh you know even if i did occasionally spend a little more for repairs
but uh it would probably work out now buying it new i don't know if that's true uh you know it probably isn't worth it more hm
so you went with the import you went with the import on based on that
no i didn't that's a Ford yeah i didn't i mean i i would say they probably are a little bit more reliable but at least on the used car market i think that's uh
oh you didn't
that's factored into the price already and i don't i'm not i don't think it's worth the added price you pay i mean if you're going for like um
oh i see
you know say a a you know five year old car um given with for given amount of mileage the Japanese car'll be
going for a lot more money generally yeah and especially this one thing i was kind of appalled at is people would be selling uh
you're gonna pay a lot more for it yeah that's what i found
Japanese cars for you know that had say a hundred thousand miles on them and they'd be asking for a lot of money for them like not much less money than i found say the equivalent Japanese car for with fifty thousand miles on it or something
and you know people would say well you know i mean they last forever and whatever but i
i mean i have to be a little bit skeptical i mean maybe it's true but hm
they don't last forever they they don't last forever they maybe last twenty percent longer or something but still
yeah i mean any
yeah i mean any any car wears out eventually and starts to have problems so i i knew that you know i definitely i definitely wasn't gonna buy something with you know eighty or a hundred thousand miles on it uh if i could avoid it so uh
yeah and as happy as i am with my Honda i have had problems with it
really i'm surprised
yeah i mean i haven't had serious problems with it but it's got a hundred thousand miles on it now so i you know i replaced the clutch and timing chain
oh okay well that's see yeah that's
yeah i've heard is it the Hondas where you have to replace the timing chain or the valves can get damaged or something like that
i don't know i've heard that with Honda with Honda's it's pretty natural it's pretty normal to need a new timing belt after i think think seventy seventy thousand miles
it's one of the
did yours actually fail on you or did you have it replaced as sort of a preemptive
no i did my clutch and they said you want us to replace the timing belt while we're in there and i said nah
hm
now i wish and i wished i had later because i had to go in and uh i couldn't i couldn't move the car i had to go and replace it
okay
yeah i think yeah i kind i think i remember it hearing that either the Hondas or the Toyotas um
that if the timing belt went
in in under like circumstances you know i guess would it'd be while the car was running and maybe some you know certain speeds or whatever that it could cause the uh cause fairly serious engine damage
huh
i could be wrong about that it is something i just vaguely remember hearing
that i haven't heard
um yeah but i i could be wrong about that but yeah i mean i would say in general you know probably although it's
