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[quote=Anonymous]For whatever reason (basically because she doesn't like my choice of car), my DW insists we need to buy our college age daughter a new car.  DD learned to drive on our 2009 Volvo S40 and drove it the last two years in high school.  I wanted to give it to her to take to college.  However, in the last year, we put about $4000 in repairs into the car, replacing front struts, ball joints, engine mounts and the a/c compressor.  IMHO this car is good to go for another 100,000 miles.  However, DW - who will buy no other car other than Mercedes Benz - wants to buy a new used car for DD - a 2012 MB C300 with 88,000 miles.  I am against it b/c I think the Volvo is just fine to get the DD through two more years of college.  Besides the fact that I do not think a luxury car is appropriate for students (I drove a 1986 VW in college in 1992), I think the MB C300 mileage is too high, it will be expensive to repair and maintain and to insure.  I think it wiser financially to hold on to the Volvo for two more years and perhaps gift something like a Hyundai with a 5 year warranty to DD when she graduates if she really needs a car.  I did not need a car after graduating from college and didn' have one for close to eight years living in DC.   Perhaps I am being too old school, but DW will not compromise and says she is upset by my refusal to help her buy the MB.

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