um what
things are you looking for in a car what kind of car would you buy
well right now i have a uh small Toyota Tercel
for your next purchase
uh-huh
and i think next time i want something just a little bit bigger uh perhaps mid size i really don't don't like the the real big cars
i'm thinking about maybe a Volvo
uh-huh
well it's funny because i currently also have a Toyota Tercel
you do
um
when i first got married my my father gave
me and my wife a a
a used Toyota um Corolla
uh-huh
and we used that until we until it's about run into the ground and then we um bought a used um Toyota Tercel i was still a student at the time and um so
um-hum
um you bought what we could afford
right
and
i think definitely um now we would also get a a larger car
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how did your uh Corolla hold up
oh
very well
um
for real
it um
did very well i mean
um-hum
do you remember how many miles you had on it in the at the end
uh yeah it was about a hundred and fifty thousand and it may have gone further but um
it was very reliable though for us though
um-hum
my my Tercel now has a hundred and forty six thousand miles on it
um
uh-huh
and i really haven't had any trouble out of it except the alternator went out at about a hundred and twenty six thousand miles i think
oh that's to be expected i would think
right
right
hopefully hopefully it just doesn't happen at a a bad time i mean when you're far away from anything or something
right and um it's really been great i have had no problems with it you know except little little minor things like you know belts and course you know
uh-huh did you buy it new
actually i didn't i bought it from um Hertz Rent A Car and it had like twenty six thousand miles on it when i bought it
uh-huh
i see but well sounds like it's been a good deal for you
um-hum
um
another thing i may consider the main thing i look for in a car is reliability
right
and
um i just go by what my dad says he's a mechanic and i remember growing up and and but he's always never wanted to spend a lot on a car because i grew up in a fairly large family six kids and we just didn't have a lot of money to spend on cars
um-hum
yeah
so um i remember growing up and having like Ramblers and stuff like that and think they're the most unreliable cars that ever existed i mean ours broke down all the time luckily my dad was mechanic and he could fix them but i remember
he said he said he would never buy um a foreign car but then in nineteen eighty he bought a used Toyota Corolla
uh-huh
and i mean didn't even spend very much money for it i don't think he spent more than five hundred dollars for it but he said it was the most reliable car he ever had purchased
wow
right
and he has bought nothing but Toyota Corolla since that time
uh
wow
and so um
but i don't know my feeling is that American cars to keep up at all are becoming more reliable also so i may consider buying um an American made car
yeah i'm trying to consider that uh that could do to the plight of General Motors and all of that
my next my next purchase
i'm really trying trying to consider
but i don't know i i i don't want to have to spend a lot of money for car repairs
that's true
i have a cousin yeah one of my cousins
is trying to tell convince me that um
the American made cars are becoming reliable reliable but
uh i'm not i'm not sure i just i know for example that both my Corolla and Tercel have been very good
um and reliable that that i've i've used
have you heard that uh or do you know anything about the foreign cars being easier to steal than the uh the American cars
oh
because there's a lot of of um car theft going going on in Dallas right now i don't know about in your area
i'm in Iowa City Iowa very small town and i don't i don't know if there's even uh more than a
one or two a month i mean um that's that that's not a big consideration here and i just moved from Utah where i that's where i was going to school before and um
um-hum
yeah
also there um there's i've never had that concern
um so i'm not really i'm not really sure
