Wilsons Sandbox

We are currently in the hunt for a new vehicle ourselves, so I have been doing lots of research on new vehicles.  When you begin to compare cargo capacity and occupant capacity, the SUV is one of the worse vehicles -value wise- you could purchase.  A Buick LeSaber will haul more people, in better comfort and use less fuel than a Ford Explorer.  I don't consider the PT Cruiser to be and SUV, but rather an econo wagon... a very sharp looking econo wagaon at that.  Gino     Save yourself about $40,000 over the next few years....find youself a friend who goes to used car auctions and buy: Nice 300D Benz, maybe $1500 Acura Integra, 92 or newer, maybe $1200 Honda or Nissan or Toyota, maybe 2-300.   You could even get the Buick for less, and if you absolutely had to have a SUV, believe me it would be less than retail, although there is a hot market in those, so even auction prices are up...all the dealers are looking for those.   I was looking at some new car ads the other day, for entertainment purposes...it read "new Ford Explorer, only $503 per month, for 84 months" (no kidding!) and calculated that I could buy 27 M-B 300s with that money...now, you could be sure that at least one of them would be running on any given day (they don't break much).