# I bought a new car! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 2, 2001, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-new-car/52843 "2001-02-02T08:03:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Pammipoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/87869e/32.png) [@Pammipoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pammipoo)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-new-car/52843/1 "2001-02-02T08:03:17Z")
YAY!!! I be very happy, I bought a new car tonight. It’s a 97 Saturn coupe, hunter green, and very cute. 2 doors, sunroof, spolier, alarm system, remte starter (no more having to wait for my windows to defrost after closing!! ;P), lots of cupholders, big trunk space, and it goes faster than 60, which is a lot more than i can say about piece of crap rental car (damned ford escort…)! I also got brand new tires, and a 2 year warranty. Spiff. AND, I got it for about the same price as my last car ($10,000, give or take), but I only have a 4 year loan as opposed to the 5 year loan I had on my cavalier. And the payments are only about $30 more than I was making before. I love low intrest rates. Grr…now I have to figure out how to move out AND make car payments…anyone willing to let me park and sleep in their driveway? 🙂 Hehe. I just had to share all my happy news. Anyone have a Saturn, and want to volunteer any information for me? It’d be much appreciated! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-new-car/52843/2 "2001-02-02T13:21:37Z")
One should never, _ever_ describe a car as “cute.” This should have been the 11th commandment. ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2001, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-new-car/52843/3 "2001-02-03T03:22:39Z")
I bought an '89 240SX. I wanted to describe my car using all letters and numbers. \ Picking it up tomorrow. The car is black as a politician’s worst secret, and has some kind of fancy stereo. ---
**Author:** ![Winnowill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4491bb/32.png) [@Winnowill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnowill)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2001, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-new-car/52843/4 "2001-02-03T03:31:34Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Pammipoo_ > **Anyone have a Saturn, and want to volunteer any information for me? It’d be much appreciated!** I had a '92 Saturn SL2 Sedan. I had it for four years. During that time, I only had one problem with it (and that was my fault for wrecking it once) - it didn’t like its alternators. For the first, oh, two and a half years I had it, it was fine. Then I wrecked it. Within a month of being fixed, it needed a new alternator. A year later, it needed another. By this time, it was out of warranty, so I decided to trade it in on something else. I loved my Saturn, and trusted it to get me where I needed to go (except in really deep snow. Then it would get stuck.) Mind you, this was only a year after the first Saturn rolled off the assembly line. It was good then - it should be better now. The steel timing chain is the most wonderful thing in the entire world. Congrats! There’s nothing more satisfying that having a new car! –Julie