[speaker001:] well I've been real um thinking I'd love to buy a new car right now if I could afford it but we have two cars right now and we're still paying on but I would love to have one of these new minivans I've got two little ones and I think that would be just the perfect family car
[speaker002:] I right now my car is terminally ill so I am really looking at uh facing the purchase of a car
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] and uh what I would like to have is so totally impractical for me that I won't do it uh well I would like for one time in my life to have a convertible
[speaker001:] well what is it oh
[speaker002:] and uh you know I don't even like the wind blowing on me so I don't know why I think I want one but I do uh I will probably stay with a foreign make I've had real good luck with them
[speaker001:] yeah we have um we have we went out to buy an American car so we bought um a Chevy Nova about three years ago and then we opened up the the hood and it said Toyota made in Japan right across the front of all the engine parts
[speaker002:] is that right
[speaker001:] um-hum Toyota uh well the Chevy Nova is the same car as the Toyota Camry uh at that time was the same car so they just put different names on them depending on who they're being shipped to I thought that was pretty insensitive
[speaker002:] oh well I didn't realize it I knew that one of the that Nissan which is Toyota had uh joined with had a plant over here and and I didn't know if it was General Motors or who but I I never thought of
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] I don't know uh you think of Chevrolet and the good old USA
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum that's why we were so surprised to see Toyota written I mean imprinted on the engine it was real interesting
[speaker002:] huh
[speaker001:] but uh I with so many options now available you know where where cars are concerned it just seems like there is there's almost too much of a choice anymore you know that there's so many different options and so many different prices and who has this cash back and whatever I think that if I were really serious about looking for another car I would take into consideration the price naturally but um you know I would really want something that I would want for that much money for ten or twelve or fifteen thousand dollars or whatever
[speaker002:] uh well yeah and that's minimum
[speaker001:] oh yeah definitely
[speaker002:] it you know it's it's a major purchase now what we used to pay for homes is now what a car can cost
[speaker001:] I cannot imagine that you know somebody I heard a commercial or something about a sixty thousand dollars car about oh oh it would how exciting it is to make that kind of a purchase and I thought I don't think I'd find that exciting I'd be wondering you know here I am buying this expensive of a car and my house isn't worth that much money
[speaker002:] if they held their value that would be one thing but when you consider that when you drive them off of the show lot they're immediately two thousand dollars depreciated
[speaker001:] that's true yeah
[speaker002:] and you know that I don't know that I'll go with I've bought a new car the last three that I've bought and I don't know that I'll buy a brand new one again
[speaker001:] yeah well we got a pretty we bought our Chevrolet brand new and then we bought a used car just a minute I'll change your diaper the we bought our our next car used and uh we had better luck with our used car and I like it more it cost us less money and we got more features and air-conditioning and whatever on it then we did on our brand new one for twice as much money
[speaker002:] well I'm I'm seriously considering going that route instead of a brand new car
[speaker001:] if you can find one that's reliable uh you know reliable if you can get someone that you trust to buy one from or you know make sure that you can have it checked out well enough
[speaker002:] well some people you know some people have to have a new car every year
[speaker001:] uh I wouldn't
[speaker002:] or it you know at the most every two years and they don't drive them that much especially your foreign cars yeah like a Honda or uh a Toyota fifty thousand is just getting broken in for them
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and if I can find one or a repossession
[speaker001:] that's we bought one like that
[speaker002:] and with the banks being in such financial you know problems now that people you can find the banks willing to sell you a car
[speaker001:] uh-huh we bought one car that way and had we bought it real reasonably and it was in real nice condition so because apparently whatever the bank get