[speaker002:] um well I'm just really excited about it because I'm graduating from college next month and I hope to be buying a car sometime in the future
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] so so hopefully uh maybe do you have any good advice do you have a car or
[speaker001:] uh yeah I do have a car
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] uh right now I have sort of a sporty car it's a Subaru that is it's called an XT6 I don't think they make them anymore I think I have the last year
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and it's one of these Japanese cars that run without needing many repairs um
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] my advice about cars is uh get a good engine get something that goes not because I'm a speed freak uh something because if you want to get on a highway you don't want to step on the gas and and say come on come on
[speaker002:] um-hum that's true that's true
[speaker001:] I do you know they make jokes about women picking out the color but I really do like to have a decent sized engine in my car and I have a six cylinder and it does go when I tell it to and and I just like the looks of a kind of sporty car
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] uh I think my car needs are going to change I had very small children and I was saddled with a station wagon that I never wanted
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] um I was told that you know it'll hold groceries and all this stuff well the grocery bags fell over in a station wagon
[speaker002:] that's true they do my mom has one
[speaker001:] you know and and you know and I wasn't that thrilled to put a bike in it or a dog in it and I didn't so when I got a new car I got a sporty little car and my kids were still small enough but they weren't in baby seats anymore and they sat in the back
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and now my son is fourteen and a half and he's taller than I am and every time I go over a bump he crashes his head because
[speaker002:] oh oh no
[speaker001:] you know these cars have they're backseats but they're kind of toy backseats
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] so I think should I get another car uh much to my chagrin it'll have to be something more boxy
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and you know practical again so this I guess I guess this is my reprieve and I guess my suggestion to you is to get something you really enjoy because at some later date you'll have to get something more practical
[speaker002:] that's great advice I'm so glad I got to talk to you that's good that's what I needed to hear yeah I guess I'm looking for uh something kind of small because it's only me and I'm a small person I'm only about five one so
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] um and I'd like to get something made in the United States so I would look for that first but if it turns out that a better price is from say Japan like the Subarus then I I would go for that because the most important thing is price I mean because
[speaker001:] well you know the more I think of it you know with what's going on in the world nowadays I think the next car I would try to buy an American one
[speaker002:] um-hum would you really
[speaker001:] yeah I think so it's you know Toyotas and all those they're they're nice cars but you know surely there's an American car I I'd love to check out the Saturn which is supposed to be a new newly made American car
[speaker002:] yeah you would think so um-hum actually I heard really good things about them and uh it's funny because I just spent last weekend I was down in Washington DC visiting my sister and they are everywhere down there it's amazing because you hardly see any of them on the road here in Philadelphia but I saw about ten in one weekend and uh my sister had gone to the dealership and she was really impressed she uh the one thing that really impressed her which sounds kind of weird but they actually have women salesmen it's weird because I mean have you ever seen a woman car salesman
[speaker001:] oh yeah I have
[speaker002:] really because I was surprised but and she said they were really nice and one good thing about the car is it's really hard to dent you know when you're driving a car and you you go in a parking yeah you know most cars in a parking lot like a cart shopping cart hits it or a car door hits it and you have like these dents well the lady took a hammer to this car and it didn't dent
[speaker001:] is it really huh
[speaker002:] she was like smashing it and it didn't it's it's made of something I don't what it is but
[speaker001:] really how was the pricing
[speaker002:] it's actually supposed to be really good the smaller ones I think around are eight thousand and then it gets up to maybe twelve thousand
[speaker001:] oh that's that's not horrible at all that's quite good nowadays
[speaker002:] so they they look really nice yeah yeah so I don't know maybe that's something to think about because they're supposed to be completely made in the United States not one of these deals where
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] it says it's made in the United States but the engine is really made in Japan and all the parts are made in Japan right
[speaker001:] parts are made in different places right I wonder who makes the the Geos because
[speaker002:] I think that's Chevrolet
[speaker001:] is it because they're so cute The Geo Storm is adorable
[speaker002:] um-hum that is really nice that's true I don't know anything about them at all do you know anyone who has one
[speaker001:] no no I don't in fact I I sat in one a long time ago and slammed the car door and it felt a little tinny you know it was it's a smaller lighter car
[speaker002:] I know yeah um-hum
[speaker001:] but you know that was years ago that was about four years ago when I bought mine so it may have changed I know on looks I think the Storm is just adorable little car for a single person
[speaker002:] hm yeah that is really cute that's true
[speaker001:] hm are are you working yet
[speaker002:] so um well I'm in ROTC so I'll be in the Army so on active duty so yeah
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah because I was wondering if you're are you going to finance it
[speaker002:] probably yeah is that a good way to go I guess I don't know which one
[speaker001:] right uh well I have been fortunate enough to be able to just pay for it and I I like to do that but there are people who can pay for it who prefer to finance it
[speaker002:] uh-huh really
[speaker001:] yeah it it seems to me as you're paying interest you're bound to be end up paying more I guess now you have to think about uh if the money in the bank will get more interest
[speaker002:] right right
[speaker001:] uh then then you'll want to finance it but if now the banks are giving so little interest I imagine you might as well just pay for it if you could
[speaker002:] oh I see