Okay, time for another one of these threads but on a much smaller scale.
I've decided I am going to try and start keeping my main cars for much longer than I have been. Which means I have to start managing mileage on them a little. Before I didn't care how much I drove them since I'd get rid of them in a year. The current car was no different as I am sitting on 13K km's in 8 months! But since I've decided to keep it for at least 2-2.5 years, I need something else that I can stack up all the highway mileage on. Frequent Edmonton to Calgary trips and travel to remote court locations throughout Alberta makes the mileage add up quite fast as you can imagine.
The Harley Davidson pick-up I had purchased was partly because of this but I got rid of it as the gas and inability to park downtown at my work didn't help. Among other things such as boredom. lol. That being said I know, any 'cheap' car I get isn't going to be fun but I am trying to see if I can find anything. This one will be kept for a a long time and get a lot of mileage so the lower it comes with the better.
This is the criteria I've narrowed it down to;
2010 or newer (exceptions for maybe a GTI or something)
Not RWD (maybe exceptions)
under $10K (lower the better)
under 100K km's (lower the better)
Rest is all open. I like coupe's etc but with that price range I can't be picky.
I've looked at all cars including hatchbacks and I wouldn't be opposed to a decent one. Since there'll be a lot of highway driving, I can't go with something like the smart car - or else I would have already gotten one. lol. I would love a Golf GTI but I don't think I could get one in my price range and I need to draw the line somewhere, or the whole thing doesn't make sense.
Thoughts?