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Honestly, if you're just looking for cheap temporary fun to drive transpo for the time being you should consider fully repaired, rebuilt/salvage titled vehicles. You can't beat them for the price and Ebay is loaded with them most of the time.



This seems like a good idea, but I have no experience with salvage cars. Do the register, inspect, and insure all the same? Can you finance one? I can figure on a little tougher time when it comes time to sell them I imagine. But if the price is right that's not a bad idea.

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I don't understand what you are trying to accomplish by selling your 6s. How much would you get for that, $10k? You are trying to repalce your car with a different one in the same price range? Financially, it doesn't make any sense unless you think your car will have big repairs soon. Either buy a <$3k car to save money or pay off your 6 and then buy soemthing nice.



If I don't get more than $10K for my 6 I won't be selling it at all. KBB is almost $15K, if it was stock it would readily sell at $14K. If having it modded takes it anymore than $2000 south of that, I'll just revert it back to stock.

Yes, I would be essentially replacing it with a car equal in value as to what I've got. But you don't make payments based on what you owe, you make them based on what you paid for it. Payments on the 6 are $450/month. Payments on something for $10,000 would be about $200/month. And it's my monthly cash flow that I am attempting to change at the moment. Refinancing the 6 is also an option that I am strongly considering.

Paying off the 6 is an option but not one I'm willing to consider. The cost of money there is just too great. I wouldn't do that normally anyhow as the interest on car notes is too low, I certainly wouldn't do that when I expect inflation to increase significantly as I believe it will.

Buying a cheap car in addition to the 6 isn't an option because it only increases monthly cash expenses. Selling the Mazda6 and buying something really cheap is an option, which is why the Focus and CSVT are on the list. They're cheap enough that I would pay cash for them without worrying about the cost of money on that transaction.

Basically, I'm looking for minimum monthly payments with no cash outlay because of inflation worries. And I've wanted to get out from my 6 for a while now. Getting something 'different' to tide me over is just an opportunity to try something new at minimal cost. Most of these cars I can pick up cheap, turn around and sell them in a year for pretty much what I paid.

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Mid 90's Saab's are pretty solid choices. Look at the Aero models, or a rare find Viggen. Volvo R models are hot and reliable too. A naturally aspirated 300ZX would be nice as I don't trust owners of 10yr old turbo cars despite the TT being one sweet thing. 3rd Gen RX-7s are dead sexy, but again rare to find an unmolested one being a turbo. Probably could find a high mileage WRX for $12k.



I have ran into a Viggen or two. Prices seem a little high. Need to read up on them to see if they would be worth the premium or not. I've been watching RX-7 prices for a while, and unfortunately it looks like they (and the 300ZX as well) have taken a price spike on the release of the Fast and Furious movie. It wasn't difficult to clear an FD RX-7 for $9000 early this year; now they're fetching $15K. I did find a brand-new 1995 RX-7 on Ebay though. Still has the window sticker on it, never titled, and only 125 miles. Pretty cool find, albeit WAY outside my price range.

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