For the back seat...

I guess you can print that out.

Alpha1971 wrote:Mission accomplished, purchased daughter a white 2016 Honda Civic touring with 55 k miles, no damage on car fax, independent mechanic verified in condition. Thanks you guys for your assistance buying used cars are tough. Dealers lie about inventory and price. The ordeal is over. Thanks for your advice everyone

Good choice. Congrats!
Safe wishes!

GustavBahler wrote:

Alpha1971 wrote:

GustavBahler wrote:

Alpha1971 wrote:2005 Infiniti FX45 with 95 k miles. I might get this for me for fun anyone have any experience with that vehicle price is 8500

I remember how different it looked from other SUVS back then. The biggest drawback I remember from car reviews was the ride, which was very stiff. Considered getting one myself. Might not be what you want for NYC. If you do buy it, I would consider buying smaller rims so you can put bigger tires on them, which should improve the ride a little.

Cooch was right that for about 20k you can get a new vehicle with a warranty, or a slightly used car with most of its warranty remaining. Which will save you biggly on repairs, the first few years of ownership.

This vehicles V8 has me tempted. This for me not my daughter. Might be my hobby car and I will update the radio and add like " Tesla style screens ". Drive for pleasure with this one which I have never done.

Id get the suspension checked out first. If its spent most of its time in a big city, I'd pass. Like blkexec said, try a warm weather state. Get some new struts as well.

A car I think would be fun to restore, fix up, would be an early 2000s Lexus GS400. Its got a V-8, and I think they still look good. The dash is unique. Nicer ride, better handling.

I bought a 89 Lexus ES-250 at the grand Marshall auction in College Point Queens, NY for $600 in 2003. It had 165k mileage. I spent about $2k restoring it then put another 20,000 miles on it. The only reason I had to trash the car was I got deployed to Iraq and no one was around to start the engine while I was gone so it rotted

The car just in saved airfare alone paid for itself. I was doing training in Virginia at the time and I would use the car to drive back and forth between Virginia and NYC on the weekends for 5 months

Philc1 wrote:

GustavBahler wrote:

Alpha1971 wrote:

GustavBahler wrote:

Alpha1971 wrote:2005 Infiniti FX45 with 95 k miles. I might get this for me for fun anyone have any experience with that vehicle price is 8500

I remember how different it looked from other SUVS back then. The biggest drawback I remember from car reviews was the ride, which was very stiff. Considered getting one myself. Might not be what you want for NYC. If you do buy it, I would consider buying smaller rims so you can put bigger tires on them, which should improve the ride a little.

Cooch was right that for about 20k you can get a new vehicle with a warranty, or a slightly used car with most of its warranty remaining. Which will save you biggly on repairs, the first few years of ownership.

This vehicles V8 has me tempted. This for me not my daughter. Might be my hobby car and I will update the radio and add like " Tesla style screens ". Drive for pleasure with this one which I have never done.

Id get the suspension checked out first. If its spent most of its time in a big city, I'd pass. Like blkexec said, try a warm weather state. Get some new struts as well.

A car I think would be fun to restore, fix up, would be an early 2000s Lexus GS400. Its got a V-8, and I think they still look good. The dash is unique. Nicer ride, better handling.

I bought a 89 Lexus ES-250 at the grand Marshall auction in College Point Queens, NY for $600 in 2003. It had 165k mileage. I spent about $2k restoring it then put another 20,000 miles on it. The only reason I had to trash the car was I got deployed to Iraq and no one was around to start the engine while I was gone so it rotted

The car just in saved airfare alone paid for itself. I was doing training in Virginia at the time and I would use the car to drive back and forth between Virginia and NYC on the weekends for 5 months

Wow Phil, glad you made it back!

Lexus, Toyotas, from 20, 30 yrs ago were built to last. They famously tried to trash a Toyota Hilux on 'Top Gear", but it kept running, they really tried.

Years back Toyota wanted to surpass GM as the biggest auto manufacturer in the world. They made the best cars in the world, but to be the biggest, quality was going to suffer. Not saying Toyotas arent good cars, but I read a lot more about quality issues than I used to back then.

ToddTT wrote:

Alpha1971 wrote:Buying a used car at least for a reliable and well maintained vehicle was very time consuming and frustrating. While having the benefits of resources like Car Fax and search engines to locate cars is useful those resources can be manipulated Four times I drive to dealerships to find a car they listed. Four times I called and was assured the desired vehicle was in stock before making the drive. Four times I made it and was told " Car must have been just sold, or it's in our incoming inventory "or some other excuse. I finally just said f it went to a Honda dealer and said show me what you have and they explained what they had and after letting me test drive like 3 vehicles, the manager told his employee to surprise me with a car that was at an other lot some time away from the dealership and had the salesmen me to take it from Yonkers to the Bronx for my mechanic to look it over. The Internet allows for lots of cat fishing, bait and switch, and price lies. I'm sure I over paid for the vehicle I got maybe by a few thousand, in a perfect world I would have paid less. But the entire process of buying the vehicle is so frustrating and you endure so much BS, that you just want it to end. At least the price of the vehicle was transparent and listed on the website. Dealerships some of them list a price " Internet special " and when you arrive they say ";Yeah it will be more then that ". It's like dating this whole process. Thank God I no longer have to date or buy a used car anymore. I enjoyed taking cars with you guys. Maybe you guys can have threads about a vehicle or experience you have had driving that car to a Knicks game or something .

I sold a car about 5 years ago, and think I could have possibly gotten a couple thousand more for it if I was patient and the stars aligned.

In the end I priced it to be sold... and watched it drive away about a week later.

The time and aggravation saved was just awesome. And like our recent trades, I feel like it was a win-win for both parties.

Well said Todd. Peace of mind is worth at least 1 k.

SupremeCommander wrote:

Alpha1971 wrote:Buying a used car at least for a reliable and well maintained vehicle was very time consuming and frustrating. While having the benefits of resources like Car Fax and search engines to locate cars is useful those resources can be manipulated Four times I drive to dealerships to find a car they listed. Four times I called and was assured the desired vehicle was in stock before making the drive. Four times I made it and was told " Car must have been just sold, or it's in our incoming inventory "or some other excuse. I finally just said f it went to a Honda dealer and said show me what you have and they explained what they had and after letting me test drive like 3 vehicles, the manager told his employee to surprise me with a car that was at an other lot some time away from the dealership and had the salesmen me to take it from Yonkers to the Bronx for my mechanic to look it over. The Internet allows for lots of cat fishing, bait and switch, and price lies. I'm sure I over paid for the vehicle I got maybe by a few thousand, in a perfect world I would have paid less. But the entire process of buying the vehicle is so frustrating and you endure so much BS, that you just want it to end. At least the price of the vehicle was transparent and listed on the website. Dealerships some of them list a price " Internet special " and when you arrive they say ";Yeah it will be more then that ". It's like dating this whole process. Thank God I no longer have to date or buy a used car anymore. I enjoyed taking cars with you guys. Maybe you guys can have threads about a vehicle or experience you have had driving that car to a Knicks game or something .

I'm begging you, try Car Max

you may be able to get it priced marginally better elsewhere, but you won't save much, and the experience at Car Max is not what you described above

Alas, I am done. But for the future I will use it. Hoping to get my monies worth out of my Sonata and Civic, for at least 150 k miles. Then if I am able I will just gift them to a student or a single mom.

GustavBahler wrote:

Philc1 wrote:

GustavBahler wrote:

Alpha1971 wrote:

GustavBahler wrote:

Alpha1971 wrote:2005 Infiniti FX45 with 95 k miles. I might get this for me for fun anyone have any experience with that vehicle price is 8500

I remember how different it looked from other SUVS back then. The biggest drawback I remember from car reviews was the ride, which was very stiff. Considered getting one myself. Might not be what you want for NYC. If you do buy it, I would consider buying smaller rims so you can put bigger tires on them, which should improve the ride a little.

Cooch was right that for about 20k you can get a new vehicle with a warranty, or a slightly used car with most of its warranty remaining. Which will save you biggly on repairs, the first few years of ownership.

This vehicles V8 has me tempted. This for me not my daughter. Might be my hobby car and I will update the radio and add like " Tesla style screens ". Drive for pleasure with this one which I have never done.

Id get the suspension checked out first. If its spent most of its time in a big city, I'd pass. Like blkexec said, try a warm weather state. Get some new struts as well.

A car I think would be fun to restore, fix up, would be an early 2000s Lexus GS400. Its got a V-8, and I think they still look good. The dash is unique. Nicer ride, better handling.

I bought a 89 Lexus ES-250 at the grand Marshall auction in College Point Queens, NY for $600 in 2003. It had 165k mileage. I spent about $2k restoring it then put another 20,000 miles on it. The only reason I had to trash the car was I got deployed to Iraq and no one was around to start the engine while I was gone so it rotted

The car just in saved airfare alone paid for itself. I was doing training in Virginia at the time and I would use the car to drive back and forth between Virginia and NYC on the weekends for 5 months

Wow Phil, glad you made it back!

Lexus, Toyotas, from 20, 30 yrs ago were built to last. They famously tried to trash a Toyota Hilux on 'Top Gear", but it kept running, they really tried.

Years back Toyota wanted to surpass GM as the biggest auto manufacturer in the world. They made the best cars in the world, but to be the biggest, quality was going to suffer. Not saying Toyotas arent good cars, but I read a lot more about quality issues than I used to back then.

and yet if you look up JD power rankings and Consumer reports you find Lexus and Toyota still at the top.
Toyota and VW DOMINATE the landscape now as measured by Revenue trading placed depending on the years. GM got passed years ago.
Toyota is far better build than VW regarding dependability rankings.
With EV's gaining some tractions companies that are releasing new models are affected by quality issues given the new technology. Toyota is slow to enter this domain and perhaps why they are still at the top.

Lexus names? Easy:

UX, Urban Crossover
NX, Nimble Crossover
LS, Luxury Sedan
ES, Executive Sedan
F series: Fuji Raceway
RX, radiant Crossover
LC, Luxury Coupe
RC, Radiant Coupe (not confirmed_
GS, Grand sport

Nalod wrote:

GustavBahler wrote:

Philc1 wrote:

GustavBahler wrote:

Alpha1971 wrote:

GustavBahler wrote:

Alpha1971 wrote:2005 Infiniti FX45 with 95 k miles. I might get this for me for fun anyone have any experience with that vehicle price is 8500

I remember how different it looked from other SUVS back then. The biggest drawback I remember from car reviews was the ride, which was very stiff. Considered getting one myself. Might not be what you want for NYC. If you do buy it, I would consider buying smaller rims so you can put bigger tires on them, which should improve the ride a little.

Cooch was right that for about 20k you can get a new vehicle with a warranty, or a slightly used car with most of its warranty remaining. Which will save you biggly on repairs, the first few years of ownership.

This vehicles V8 has me tempted. This for me not my daughter. Might be my hobby car and I will update the radio and add like " Tesla style screens ". Drive for pleasure with this one which I have never done.

Id get the suspension checked out first. If its spent most of its time in a big city, I'd pass. Like blkexec said, try a warm weather state. Get some new struts as well.

A car I think would be fun to restore, fix up, would be an early 2000s Lexus GS400. Its got a V-8, and I think they still look good. The dash is unique. Nicer ride, better handling.

I bought a 89 Lexus ES-250 at the grand Marshall auction in College Point Queens, NY for $600 in 2003. It had 165k mileage. I spent about $2k restoring it then put another 20,000 miles on it. The only reason I had to trash the car was I got deployed to Iraq and no one was around to start the engine while I was gone so it rotted

The car just in saved airfare alone paid for itself. I was doing training in Virginia at the time and I would use the car to drive back and forth between Virginia and NYC on the weekends for 5 months

Wow Phil, glad you made it back!

Lexus, Toyotas, from 20, 30 yrs ago were built to last. They famously tried to trash a Toyota Hilux on 'Top Gear", but it kept running, they really tried.

Years back Toyota wanted to surpass GM as the biggest auto manufacturer in the world. They made the best cars in the world, but to be the biggest, quality was going to suffer. Not saying Toyotas arent good cars, but I read a lot more about quality issues than I used to back then.

and yet if you look up JD power rankings and Consumer reports you find Lexus and Toyota still at the top.
Toyota and VW DOMINATE the landscape now as measured by Revenue trading placed depending on the years. GM got passed years ago.
Toyota is far better build than VW regarding dependability rankings.
With EV's gaining some tractions companies that are releasing new models are affected by quality issues given the new technology. Toyota is slow to enter this domain and perhaps why they are still at the top.

Lexus names? Easy:

UX, Urban Crossover
NX, Nimble Crossover
LS, Luxury Sedan
ES, Executive Sedan
F series: Fuji Raceway
RX, radiant Crossover
LC, Luxury Coupe
RC, Radiant Coupe (not confirmed_
GS, Grand sport

What about some cars named - KRS 1, DMX, and RUN/DMC ?