After much research... investigation... deliberation... a few road trips... lots of spent gas... We finally found a car. And just in time to drive baby Kate around in when the Texas Clark's arrive! We started out wanting to buy a cheap 7k landscape/house work truck... but we were pretty dissapointed to see how poorly the Exterra holds together after only 70k miles... they seem to fall apart interior wise. So we looked at a newer one w/ less miles... but then decided the money would not be well spent b/c the car would fall apart. We liked that the newer one had 6 airbags and more safety features though. We then decided that for the money... we'd like something safe... and that by buying a truck we'd be sacrificing good gas mileage and safety ona daily basis for the few times a year we need to haul something. So we then got down to a 4 door sedan. With our budget... we sought out to see what used 4 door sedan we could buy that was built in Japan. The newer Hondas are built here now. :( We discovered that for the price of a used accord (and less than the price of say a Jetta built in Mexico)... we could buy a Lexus IS300... made in Japan. So we set out to inspect a few high mileage IS300s to see how they were holding up. We then drove a few new ones to compare them to the older ones... We were very impressed. The interiors are built to last... and mechanically the ones with 100k plus miles drove just like the newer ones... Just like our old Legends use to do! So in our mids Lexus is the new Honda. Luckily out of the 66 we looked at... Erin happened to like the one with gun metal rims the most! Good taste I must say! Luckily too this one had no bent frame or paint work!
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