How do you choose your next car purchase?

[ajprice]

Do I fit in it?
Do I like it?
Can I afford to buy it and run it?
Is it brown?

If answer is yes to the first three and no to to the fourth, its a contender.

[orhan]

Impulse buying
Day off go look at cars at car super market drive out with gti couple years later bored looking at cars bought 330 go figure

[mikeyr]

Rouleur said:

I just buy whatever 300bhp/ton recommends

Me too, hence my 17 Corvettes, 2 Oldsmobiles and an Issetta Bubble Car. I was only looking for a transit van!

To be fair, actually I do use these forums for some general advice and 300bhp does give some interesting ideas.

For my last car I got lots of peoples opinions from here and also read contempary magazine reports on the ones that appealed most. A few test drives of varying machines helps but this is something I feel VERY awkward about doing in someone elses pride and joy.

In an ideal world there would be a giant lending library with 1 of each car ever made in it which you could go to try before looking to buy your own!

[supertouring]

Cars are bought with the heart, not the head.

[humpbackmaniac]

I ask myself a simple question:

Does it have more horsepower than my last car? Yes/No.

[Liquid Knight]

Budget - can I afford it?
Meerkats - can I insure it?
Economy - can I afford to run it?
Spares availability, cost and repairs - can I afford to fix it when it goes wrong?
Does it look nice?

Do I like it?

Buy it.

[Mashedpotatoes]

SturdyHSV said:

I did not, it is a reference to welshbeef's thread, but used here, in a different thread, providing readers with the joy of getting an 'in joke' or what could possibly even be considered a 'callback'



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callback_(comedy)

Damn it now I just feel stupid