CommMom
Senior Community Member
DH drives an 02' Regal. He loves the car, but lately it's started to have problems. It's been to the mechanic 3x in the last 2 months (for 3 separate issues). We're hoping to baby it along until we pay off our van, but are starting to get nervous about it. So I'm starting to think about what we might want to replace it with.
We'd rather have something full or mid-sized (no small cars) with decent trunk space. We don't really need an SUV (nor do we want the cost of one), though I guess a crossover might be an option if the price were right. Needs to fit 2 car seats and have good leg & head room. Nothing over 100k miles, would prefer it be as low mileage as possible. Good safety stats & features, obviously. Good gas mileage is a plus. We'll probably look at spending around $8k, might do more for the perfect car.
What should we be looking at? I haven't looked at cars in forever, so I don't even know where to start.
We'd rather have something full or mid-sized (no small cars) with decent trunk space. We don't really need an SUV (nor do we want the cost of one), though I guess a crossover might be an option if the price were right. Needs to fit 2 car seats and have good leg & head room. Nothing over 100k miles, would prefer it be as low mileage as possible. Good safety stats & features, obviously. Good gas mileage is a plus. We'll probably look at spending around $8k, might do more for the perfect car.
What should we be looking at? I haven't looked at cars in forever, so I don't even know where to start.