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Okay, Fluther, do you want to help me buy a car?

Asked by Rarebear (25192points) April 19th, 2017

My kid is turning 16 and we’re eventually giving her our 10 year old Camry that my wife drives.

We need to replace my wife’s car. It can be new or lightly used.
Here are the specs that my wife wants:

1) Needs a ground clearance over 6.5 inches (complex reasons, but go with me on this)

2) Heated leather seats

3) Moon roof or sun roof (I don’t know the difference)

4) Drives well.

5) It doesn’t need to be Camry-sized, but she doesn’t want anything small. A small crossover SUV would be okay

7) Mileage isn’t paramount, but she is used to the Camry’s mileage which is a hybrid. That gets around 34ish. So maybe not 20 mpg. (Sorry for you European people, I can’t talk in European mileage. I’m a dumb American)

8) Something that doesn’t cost a fortune to repair. So ixnay on the Porche-ay.

9) Cost is less of an issue. I can afford a reasonably nice car although I certainly don’t need to pay for a Tesla or anything. For a new car I’d be willing pay up to about $35K or so (because of the trims), although it doesn’t need to be new. In fact I like buying 1 year old cars with better trims.

She pulled the whole ground clearance thing on me today. I had been looking at Camrys, Accords and cars of that ilk.

So, collective, help me shop.

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