[speaker001:] um what things are you looking for in a car what kind of car would you buy
[speaker002:] well right now I have a uh small Toyota Tercel
[speaker001:] for your next purchase uh-huh
[speaker002:] and I think next time I want something just a little bit bigger uh perhaps mid size I really don't don't like the the real big cars I'm thinking about maybe a Volvo
[speaker001:] uh-huh well it's funny because I currently also have a Toyota Tercel
[speaker002:] you do
[speaker001:] um when I first got married my my father gave me and my wife a a a used Toyota um Corolla
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and we used that until we until it's about run into the ground and then we um bought a used um Toyota Tercel I was still a student at the time and um so
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] um you bought what we could afford
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] and I think definitely um now we would also get a a larger car
[speaker002:] um-hum how did your uh Corolla hold up
[speaker001:] oh very well um
[speaker002:] for real
[speaker001:] it um did very well I mean
[speaker002:] um-hum do you remember how many miles you had on it in the at the end
[speaker001:] uh yeah it was about a hundred and fifty thousand and it may have gone further but um it was very reliable though for us though
[speaker002:] um-hum my my Tercel now has a hundred and forty six thousand miles on it
[speaker001:] um uh-huh
[speaker002:] and I really haven't had any trouble out of it except the alternator went out at about a hundred and twenty six thousand miles I think
[speaker001:] oh that's to be expected I would think
[speaker002:] right right
[speaker001:] hopefully hopefully it just doesn't happen at a a bad time I mean when you're far away from anything or something
[speaker002:] right and um it's really been great I have had no problems with it you know except little little minor things like you know belts and course you know
[speaker001:] uh-huh did you buy it new
[speaker002:] actually I didn't I bought it from um Hertz Rent A Car and it had like twenty six thousand miles on it when I bought it
[speaker001:] uh-huh I see but well sounds like it's been a good deal for you
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] um another thing I may consider the main thing I look for in a car is reliability
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] and um I just go by what my dad says he's a mechanic and I remember growing up and and but he's always never wanted to spend a lot on a car because I grew up in a fairly large family six kids and we just didn't have a lot of money to spend on cars
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah
[speaker001:] so um I remember growing up and having like Ramblers and stuff like that and think they're the most unreliable cars that ever existed I mean ours broke down all the time luckily my dad was mechanic and he could fix them but I remember he said he said he would never buy um a foreign car but then in nineteen eighty he bought a used Toyota Corolla
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and I mean didn't even spend very much money for it I don't think he spent more than five hundred dollars for it but he said it was the most reliable car he ever had purchased
[speaker002:] wow right
[speaker001:] and he has bought nothing but Toyota Corolla since that time
[speaker002:] uh wow
[speaker001:] and so um but I don't know my feeling is that American cars to keep up at all are becoming more reliable also so I may consider buying um an American made car
[speaker002:] yeah I'm trying to consider that uh that could do to the plight of General Motors and all of that
[speaker001:] my next my next purchase
[speaker002:] I'm really trying trying to consider but I don't know I I I don't want to have to spend a lot of money for car repairs
[speaker001:] that's true I have a cousin yeah one of my cousins is trying to tell convince me that um the American made cars are becoming reliable reliable but uh I'm not I'm not sure I just I know for example that both my Corolla and Tercel have been very good um and reliable that that I've I've used
[speaker002:] have you heard that uh or do you know anything about the foreign cars being easier to steal than the uh the American cars
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] because there's a lot of of um car theft going going on in Dallas right now I don't know about in your area
[speaker001:] I'm in Iowa City Iowa very small town and I don't I don't know if there's even uh more than a one or two a month I mean um that's that that's not a big consideration here and I just moved from Utah where I that's where I was going to school before and um
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah
[speaker001:] also there um there's I've never had that concern um so I'm not really I'm not really sure