From: Devil's_Advocate on
I've been looking, for about a YEAR now locally, to find a Corolla with less
than 100k miles, with automatic, air conditioning and cruise control. Dont
care what year, but I want to pay less than $4000 for it, in great mechanical
condition.

Cant find one. Looked on Craig's list, seems full of scams. People you email
for a week asking to see it, then they answer and claim the car is in another
state, if you only pay them, they'll ship it free. Sure.

Is there any competitive car made by Ford or someone, that gets in the 30-40
MPG range like the Corolla, with plenty of leg room inside too, that's
available in the parameters I'm looking for?

I need it for a company car and cant wait any longer.

From: Ray O on

"Devil's_Advocate" <Devils_Advocate(a)devils_.xyx> wrote in message
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> I've been looking, for about a YEAR now locally, to find a Corolla with
> less
> than 100k miles, with automatic, air conditioning and cruise control. Dont
> care what year, but I want to pay less than $4000 for it, in great
> mechanical
> condition.
>
> Cant find one. Looked on Craig's list, seems full of scams. People you
> email
> for a week asking to see it, then they answer and claim the car is in
> another
> state, if you only pay them, they'll ship it free. Sure.
>
> Is there any competitive car made by Ford or someone, that gets in the
> 30-40
> MPG range like the Corolla, with plenty of leg room inside too, that's
> available in the parameters I'm looking for?
>
> I need it for a company car and cant wait any longer.
>

Your price and accumulated mileage expectations are a pretty tough
requirement. You might be able to meet your price, accumulated mileage, and
fuel economy expectations with a Ford Focus.
--

Ray O
(correct punctuation to reply)


From: C. E. White on

"Ray O" <rokigawa(a)NOSPAMtristarassociates.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Devil's_Advocate" <Devils_Advocate(a)devils_.xyx> wrote in message
> news:Xns9D27DE1EAFC8CDevilsAdvocatedevils(a)216.196.97.142...
>> I've been looking, for about a YEAR now locally, to find a Corolla
>> with less
>> than 100k miles, with automatic, air conditioning and cruise
>> control. Dont
>> care what year, but I want to pay less than $4000 for it, in great
>> mechanical
>> condition.
>>
>> Cant find one. Looked on Craig's list, seems full of scams. People
>> you email
>> for a week asking to see it, then they answer and claim the car is
>> in another
>> state, if you only pay them, they'll ship it free. Sure.
>>
>> Is there any competitive car made by Ford or someone, that gets in
>> the 30-40
>> MPG range like the Corolla, with plenty of leg room inside too,
>> that's
>> available in the parameters I'm looking for?
>>
>> I need it for a company car and cant wait any longer.
>>
>
> Your price and accumulated mileage expectations are a pretty tough
> requirement. You might be able to meet your price, accumulated
> mileage, and fuel economy expectations with a Ford Focus.

The used car market must be tougher than I thought. I did an
AutoTrader search and found only a rew Foci I would buy that met the
criteria, and they were all 7 or 8 years old. I was surprised. I
figured there would be many used compacts for $4000 with less than
100,000 miles. I was wrong. Mostly anything that was less than 7 years
old with an asking price of less than $4,000 had a salvage title.
Ouch. What do people on limited income buy? Before I spent $4,000 on a
seven year old car, I'd have to seriously consider buying a new Kia or
Hyundai (assuming I could afford the payments).

Ed


From: charlesgrozny on
Guys, the Cash For Clunkers program screwed up the used car market for a
while.

Thanks Barry Nobama for another useless f***up that didn't really fix
anything.

Charles Grozny.

"C. E. White" <cewhite3(a)mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> "Ray O" <rokigawa(a)NOSPAMtristarassociates.com> wrote in message
> news:hlvvr3$91q$4(a)news.eternal-september.org...
>>
>> "Devil's_Advocate" <Devils_Advocate(a)devils_.xyx> wrote in message
>> news:Xns9D27DE1EAFC8CDevilsAdvocatedevils(a)216.196.97.142...
>>> I've been looking, for about a YEAR now locally, to find a Corolla with
>>> less
>>> than 100k miles, with automatic, air conditioning and cruise control.
>>> Dont
>>> care what year, but I want to pay less than $4000 for it, in great
>>> mechanical
>>> condition.
>>>
>>> Cant find one. Looked on Craig's list, seems full of scams. People you
>>> email
>>> for a week asking to see it, then they answer and claim the car is in
>>> another
>>> state, if you only pay them, they'll ship it free. Sure.
>>>
>>> Is there any competitive car made by Ford or someone, that gets in the
>>> 30-40
>>> MPG range like the Corolla, with plenty of leg room inside too, that's
>>> available in the parameters I'm looking for?
>>>
>>> I need it for a company car and cant wait any longer.
>>>
>>
>> Your price and accumulated mileage expectations are a pretty tough
>> requirement. You might be able to meet your price, accumulated mileage,
>> and fuel economy expectations with a Ford Focus.
>
> The used car market must be tougher than I thought. I did an AutoTrader
> search and found only a rew Foci I would buy that met the criteria, and
> they were all 7 or 8 years old. I was surprised. I figured there would be
> many used compacts for $4000 with less than 100,000 miles. I was wrong.
> Mostly anything that was less than 7 years old with an asking price of
> less than $4,000 had a salvage title. Ouch. What do people on limited
> income buy? Before I spent $4,000 on a seven year old car, I'd have to
> seriously consider buying a new Kia or Hyundai (assuming I could afford
> the payments).
>
> Ed
>


From: Hachiroku on
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:50:02 -0600, Devil's_Advocate wrote:

> I've been looking, for about a YEAR now locally, to find a Corolla with
> less than 100k miles, with automatic, air conditioning and cruise
> control. Dont care what year, but I want to pay less than $4000 for it,
> in great mechanical condition.
>
> Cant find one. Looked on Craig's list, seems full of scams. People you
> email for a week asking to see it, then they answer and claim the car is
> in another state, if you only pay them, they'll ship it free. Sure.
>
> Is there any competitive car made by Ford or someone, that gets in the
> 30-40 MPG range like the Corolla, with plenty of leg room inside too,
> that's available in the parameters I'm looking for?
>
> I need it for a company car and cant wait any longer.

You're going to have to broaden your horizons to about 10 years, then the
price point you're looking at will supply more cars.

The odd deal pops up now and then. I was third in line for a 1998 Camry
in 2006, 80,000 miles and they only wanted $6800...of course, number 2 in
line snapped it up...