So, new car? Or fix the old one?

[derien]

It'll be almost $2,000 to fix, but looks in pretty good shape other than the damage done by the timing belt breaking (according to the mechanic). OTH a new car would be like $2,000 down. Less maintenance, maybe, in the next couple of years, but continuous payments. Buuut there's not really any good cars on the market - I want dependable and good gas mileage. Bleh, I think I'm talking myself into fixing the Aveo.

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[sahiya.livejournal.com]

Well, I can't say anything about snow driving - I live near San Francisco and have never driven in the snow. But as far as interior useful space, my sister is a stage manager and often has to lug large amounts of *stuff* around for productions. Her Versa is a hatchback and she loves it. LOVES IT. My Civic has an enormous trunk that is very deep and I can fit a lot of stuff into it, but probably not as much as she can into her Versa.

Oh man, I got stuck with an Aveo as a rental car last year (because yeah, super cheap) and it was the worst POS I have ever driven. Pieces of it came off in my hand. I remember sitting there holding a windshield wiper going, "And Chevrolet is so baffled that no one wants to buy their cars . . ."