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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Luxury cars.  DH and I are not car people at all.   A friend was trying to convince DH to buy a 100K car and DH just kept saying "why would I get this when I can get basically the same one for $45K" [/quote]

I'm not sure you can get "basically the same one" for half the price. But I wouldn't buy a 100k car either. [/quote]

True. My husband has a Suburban that was $75,000 new when he bought it 8 years ago. It's so giant it causes a ton of issues. We can't park in DC unless we research parking garages to check on height restrictions. Street parking is basically impossible downtown. We finally have a garage but need to precision park because we probably have 8 inches of clearance around the Suburban to be able to fit my tiny car in as well. And now that our kids are teens it's only maybe twice a year we actually use the third row of seating. The mileage is terrible. It has 170,000 miles and he's replaced the transmission TWICE. I occasionally drive it and feel like the blind spots are huge and the handling is crap. What a pain in the ass. Hoping the next car is a regular SUV, not a 3-row and is at least a foot narrower. I also hope DH is finally sold on buying a practically new but used car with maybe 10-15,000 miles. So yeah, we could get something similar but actually much better and more practical and spend a lot less on it.[/quote]

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