[speaker001:] before the one will take um okay let's see I guess um I can start I'm actually we're actually trying to find one now because our family's growing yeah
[speaker002:] are you really
[speaker001:] um so I'm looking at um something larger than what we have we've got like an eighty four Charger that's about gone and a uh an eighty nine Horizon
[speaker002:] uh-huh which are both kind of small
[speaker001:] so I'm looking for something a little bigger yeah um so we were thinking minivan for a while and uh we're looking at uh some just some four door five passenger sedans as well
[speaker002:] uh-huh are you looking for an American car or you you open to buying foreign cars
[speaker001:] um I don't really have a preference either way I guess it you know it's
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] you know I guess the American cars had a bad reputation but I haven't had any real substantial problems with the ones I've had
[speaker002:] uh-huh right personally I have a Japanese car right now and I really like it a lot uh I think the Japanese really build good cars and I know that kind of rubs against the grain right now in the whole uh
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] you know buy American keep American auto workers working right now but I feel that the Japanese have really produced a much higher quality product than our uh car manufacturers have for a while if I were to buy another car I would be uh
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] I would be partial to buying another Japanese car but I would also look at American cars but when I bought the car that I bought now I did that also and I just felt that the Japanese car was a much better product so if I were
[speaker001:] yeah I mean even even if it's just little details it seems like uh they you know like uh there's a door seal that doesn't quite seal and you have to take it back every once in a while and and it's clearly just a a design problem there
[speaker002:] right right it is um I'm kind of right now the next car I buy is gonna be sort of a sports car I would really like to have a sports car um I don't really I don't have a family so I don't need a a minivan or such to uh haul people around in
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] so I'm looking for more a a two passenger car that uh
[speaker001:] oh like a Miata or something like that
[speaker002:] well I like the Miata but I don't like it enough to buy it I would buy something actually the the car that I really like right now is an Eagle Talon which is an American car but uh
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] something along that lines uh because I have a an economy car right now which is okay but uh I think I I'd like to move on to something a little better
[speaker001:] interesting yeah that's interesting yeah I guess probably the factors we'd use to compare are a little different because I look for you know size and safety and then mileage probably
[speaker002:] right right that's when I bought the car that I bought I was looking for mileage and I was looking for uh dependability and something that was going to last a long time I was get that I would get a
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] for the money that I was going to spend that I would get a return that was that was worth that money
[speaker001:] yeah yeah I can I think in terms of computer terminology I look at you know price performance and things like that
[speaker002:] so right exactly
[speaker001:] and then a little bit at life expectancy I guess but it you know depends on what you
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] what you pay initially but you know I've got a hundred and twenty five thousand miles on the Charger actually it was my wife's car that she brought into the marriage
[speaker002:] um that's right uh-huh
[speaker001:] and she got just a commute between Cincinnati and Dayton
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] it's you know we we had to replace the friction plate and the transmission at thirty thousand miles but
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] um the other ninety four thousand have been just fine with it so
[speaker002:] okay
[speaker001:] but uh
[speaker002:] uh I've had uh I've had one or two American cars I think and and they were okay I had a Pontiac once and and I never had a problem with it but uh my mother had a Dodge at one point and I I had driven it a few times and I really did not feel that it that I would buy a Dodge just just from well actually I had a uh
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] a Dodge Omni at one point and that was I think what really prejudiced me against American cars was because I did not feel that it was a very quality uh
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] car
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] so I guess you'd have to say if I was looking I would definitely be looking for a foreign car
[speaker001:] that's interesting but yeah it it's hard to beat some of the uh like I guess we're in particular we're looking at a like a ninety one Corsica that's uh buy back at a they say GM sponsored auction but I think they're obliged to have these things because Hertz and Avis and those folks have it in their contract that they can sell it back to GM
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] after you know it's after they've used it for six months and put you know twelve or fifteen thousand miles on it and you can get those for like eight thousand bucks if you
[speaker002:] right  which is a good deal
[speaker001:] yeah because uh I guess um I mean well ninety two's granted but the new ones you know fourteen to sixteen is what they go for
[speaker002:] um-hum right
[speaker001:] on the lot so all the depreciation has been taken off and guess the dealer comes out okay you know I don't know what kind of I don't know what GM corporate kind of hit the I don't know what kind of hit they take on it but sounds like everybody's had their chance to make their money off of it
[speaker002:] yeah that yeah I'm sure they did
[speaker001:] so but uh I don't know we keep looking at that minivan it's just you know we can get a like a Caravan for right twelve five but that's a little more than we want to spend right now
[speaker002:] uh-huh right
[speaker001:] but uh uh it's interesting but uh I don't know if if uh it it seems to be