Anyway, in a scant little while I'll be buying a car. Now keep in mind these few things:
- I'm a cheap asshole
- VW minibusses are awesome
- Mileage is largely irrelevant because Denmark is tiny and I'll drive maybe a thousand km a year
- something I forgot
- My state-required insurance will be low
- I won't have to pay a certain kind of tax that I won't list here because then I'd get tons of replies about it instead of the point of the thread because it's stupid. Hence, Stupidtax.
That puts my main concern at maintenance and to a lesser degree security because I'm a stupid daredevil. So car buffs, what is a VW Type 2 minibus going to cost me maintenance-wise? Will it outweigh the fairly considerable Stupidtax and the even more retardedly high insurance (think $2000 a year for a post-1995 car at age 18 and god forbid post-2000 cars)? If maintenance costs < tax/insurance saving, I'm probably buying one.
Thanks 
A good choice for a first car always will be a Honda. 88-95 Honda Civics really aren't that bad maint. wise. And if you're ambitious you could fix any problems that car would give you because they're so basic. I'm sure you already know that there is a ton of aftermarket support for the cars as well.
Anything japanese tends to do very well for reliablity as well. My 1995 Mitsubishi Might Max truck has had only one problem in the 7k miles I have driven it in the past 10 months. The alternator died, which was covered under the warrenty that the dealer had given me. Well, the A/C broke too, which will be a nice $300 or so repair bill fairly soon, but it stilll drives damn fine.
I couldn't give you any idea of what maint would be on them, but it shouldn't be too terrible if you have a good shop around to do the work for you. Even better if you are willing to knuckle down and order the parts online and do it yourself. That's the technique I've been using to afford my 1982 BMW.
I'll go shop around for a nearby shop.
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We were all impressed when BetaTested wrote:
I believe would be the same as the Beatles from the era.
Yeah, they were kinda high maintenance weren't they... what with all those guitars and amps to lug around... and the weird requests at all hours of the night...
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So quoth Kermitov:
Yeah, they were kinda high maintenance weren't they... what with all those guitars and amps to lug around... and the weird requests at all hours of the night...
For reliability, cheapness of ownership, and just general efficiency of ownership, you really, really can't beat a mildly used import. Look at accord, corolla, integra. They're not glamourous, but they'll run forever and then a day, and they won't cost you much to run.
No, Really. Bite me.
