Worst Cars To Buy

First of all, avoid any car the first year it'sPlease don't make the terrible mistake of leasing
released. I noticed in the paper this morning thatyour next car. Car salesmen can convince anyone
you could lease a new Ford whatever their newthat this is a great way to go if you don't have a
SUV/sedan cross is for the same price you leaselot of money to put down for your car (who
a Ford Explorer. What fool would buy a new car,does?) or if you want to buy a nicer car that you
before the manufacturer has had a year or twocouldn't afford otherwise. You can't afford to
to iron out the bugs? They're in constant contactlease a car; even Bill Gates can't afford to lease a
with dealers and service departments to find outcar. Please cross leasing off your list of car
how their new cars are performing and whatoptions. We can't find anything truly worthwhile
customers like and don't like about them. Giveabout leasing.
them some time to fine tune the car beforeAnd now our list of worst cars to buy for 2007
buying it for yourself.(by make and model):
Never buy whatever car is super popular. You'llBMW 7 Series and X5 Chevy Astro, Blazer,
pay top dollar, and you'll never get that moneyExpress, S-10 with 4WD, Venture, Chrysler Town
back out of it. No car dealer will dealer on a hot& Country (with all wheel drive) Dodge Grand
car. Why should they, if someone else who'sCaravan (all wheel drive) GMC Jimmy, Sonoma
willing to pay full price will buy it later that day?4WD, Safari, Savana
It's often hard to find a dealer who even has aInfiniti QX56Jaguar S and X-types Jeep Grand
hot car on his lot. There's no way in the worldCherokee Kia Sedona (the 2006 is acceptable, if
they're going to give you a price break if they'reyou must buy a Kia) Land Rover Discovery
the only dealer within 200 miles who has the carLincoln Aviator and Navigator Mercedes-Benz CLK,
everyone wants. And two or three years later,M- and S-Classes, SL Nissan Armada, Titan
when you're ready to sell the car, there areOldsmobile Bravada, Cutlass and Silhouette
enough of them available, and they may no longerPontiac Aztek, Trans Sport, Volkswagen Cabrio,
be the hottest car, that you won't be able to sellJetta Turbo, Jetta V6, Beetle, Touareg
it for the same top dollar you bought it for.That's our politically correct list. But the fact is, in
A car that you only keep for a year or twoa million years we'll never buy: any British car
definitely qualifies as a 'worst car to buy.' One(Land Rover, Jaguar, Mini-Cooper, Lotus, etc.); any
study I read found that if a person kept everyGerman car (Volkswagon, BMW, Mercedes,
car they bought for ten years or more, insteadPorsche, etc.) or any French car. Have you ever
of buying or leasing a new one every threesat in the back seat of a BMW? If you're more
years, that they would save $400,000 by thethan five feet tall, there's no headroom. A lot of
time they turned 65. It didn't matter whetherthese cars have become associated with the
they bought the car new or used, or what kind ofrich-you've made if you drive a Mercedes. But I've
car they bought. It was cheaper-significantlynever met anyone who any of these who was
cheaper-to buy it and pay for whatever repairsreally happy with it. We know all about the
came up. Cars are lasting longer every year, sonumbers of repairs per vehicle, but we've own a
it's possible you could keep your car even longerlot of these cars, or had family member or close
than ten years, and save even more money.friends who owned them. Please don't make the
Please don't be one of those people who buys asame mistake these people did. Buy yourself a
new car every four or five years.nice Honda or Toyota.