I’ve been shopping. I’ve seen some 2010-2016 cars with higher mileage around 8k
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Yeah, those are reliable cars. if you have a certain model in mind you can look it up by year and see which years had the best cars of that model. For example, some years the Jettas weren’t as good as other years or some years had certain problems.
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i went with a 14 year old vehicle with 70k miles and within a few days of buying it the transmission started shifting hard between 1st and 2nd some times. idk what you are considering high mileage but make sure u test drive it really good. even through parking lots. that was my mistake. mine shifts hard in parking lots and i didnt test it there. the radio has also now gone out from a loose wire.
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Trust me I have a horror story about buying a used Subaru with a faulty torque converter. Didn’t find out till after driving up three hills
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Isn’t 8000 miles considered pretty low? Especially for a 2010 - 2016.
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Oh sorry that was a typo. I meant $8k price not mileage. By higher mileage I mean around 130-150k
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in that case id go for older with lower mileage. 130-150 would be too high for me to risk it
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I understand what you mean. But I’ve seen cars go till 250-300k miles if taken care of properly
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It used to be people looked around for an older car to buy that was owned by a little old lady who just drove it only on Sundays to go to church, lol. Something like that.
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I agree! My first was was my grandmas car who only drove 5 miles to and from the grocery store. It was a 1999 Honda CRV. I got it with 98,000 miles on it. It was a great little car. I miss it
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The way I looked at it is do I get an older car that’s a premium brand, or a newer car of cheap brand
I chose the older car that was a better make and that proved to be a good decision
Car has less technology but is a solid car that runs well and doesn’t cost me much
It also has really comfortable leather seats and a Bose sound system
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@Hanna_Foxx we are after a new car. The one we have has just had £900 worth of work on it. It only has 40k miles on the clock it’s a Citroen but finding parts for French cars is hard
I just spoke to my dad he said best to go with Toyota as if anything goes wrong they have abundance of supplies/parts. Also they are reliable.
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Toyota is an excellent brand of car
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I would definitely go Japanese. Engineering meant to last
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Yea I’d probably get a Honda but Toyota’s also last forever
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You said that without knowing where she lives or what her use case scenario is. If she lives somewhere cold, or without charging infrastructure, or has to drive long distances then an EV would be a disaster for her.
Newer cars run cheaper and need less maintenance than older vehicles, on average.
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Oops my bad. But still electric rules 
If you don’t mind a small car, I have owned a Chevy sonic and a Chevy spark. The spark is cheaper but I would recommend the sonic even if it meant a small loan. My spark had lower miles and is a 2017 and it was $7kish
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It will when they get battery tech that isn’t crap out to market. Solid state at a minimum. I cancelled my plans to buy an EV this past year because there’s no way one will work with where I live, the temps we endure, and the distances I travel.
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You can’t go wrong with a Toyota Camry. 
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