Buying a car, house, boat, swimming pool should not involve a financial advisor unless you are buying something over a million dollars, actually you shouldn’t need a personal advisor at all. At our age, every transaction at our age should be based on wants and needs.
If you want a new car buy it. Get all the new safety features as you can afford. Also, at our age, you have to think about getting stranded somewhere because a used car broke down, you have a better chance of not breaking down in a new car.
Do your homework before buying new or used to see if there is a trend in problems/class actions against this car. I actually got rid of a newer car years ago because this manufacturer had issues with their cars/trucks just coming to a stop out of the blue. It happened to us. They told us they fixed the problem. When I went out on the web and investigated this issue, thousands were having this same problem but the manufacturer wouldn’t classify this as a recall. I didn’t want my wife stranded somewhere so I got rid of the truck.
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