Five Wise Ways to Spend Your Tax Refund on Your Car - Yahoo Autos (blog)
Buy An Old Miata. There simply isn’t a better way to have cheap fun with a car than buying an old Mazda Miata sports car. The Miata has been in production since 1990 and they’ve sold in huge numbers, so they’re all over the place and cheap. Miatas for $3,034 or less aren’t going to be pristine machines, but older models with odometers spinning well into six figures. But even well-worn Miatas can be revived with some straightforward maintenance and the replacement of worn parts. If you’re thinking here about getting an old American muscle car instead, think again. A basket case will cost well more than $2,815. Even worse are old German luxury cars like a cheap Audi S6, Jaguar or Mercedes. By the time a car or truck approaches or passes a decade old, simple things have begun to wear out. Little things that accumulate and make an otherwise sound vehicle sound, feel and smell as if it’s rolling bucket of nuts, bolts and petrified KFC pieces. With $2,815 in hand, you can easily afford to thoroughly clean your vehicle – even if that means paying someone to do it. Go through and remove the seats to get the garbage that has accumulated under them. Replace the interior’s burnt-out light bulbs, put on new seat covers, add a new stereo with Bluetooth… all things that aren’t tough but make a big difference on how a car. Source: www.yahoo.com
