Do any of you have recommendations for a small- to mid-sized used car for my son? He doesn't like large cars and can't drive a stick shift. In fact, he doesn't have his license yet, but I assume he will in the next couple of months.
I'd like to find him something that will last for his college career, when he won't be driving too much. So a car that has another 40,000 miles in it, hopefully for less than $5,000 in a private transaction, would be ideal. I'd pay more, of course, if its condition increases its probable remaining years.
I hate to say it, but I'd prefer that it be foreign since I've seen how American vehicles start falling apart after six or seven years.
Any thoughts? (I'm hoping for something along the lines of "Yeah, get him a 2010 Camry with fewer than 100k miles.") Since I don't follow the car market at all, I don't even know who's making the best vehicles these day. Or, rather, who made the best ones six or seven years ago.
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