"Ralph Mowery" wrote in message
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What's he do next? He took it to Honda for an oil change and they sold
him a
new FIT and gave him a whopping $1000 trade in for the CRV including the
new
battery that was a day old. That car was
probably worth 4 times that. He could have paid $600 or so for a cat
replacement
at an non-dealer repair shop and gotten another 100K miles out of it.
And the
FIT is a small **** box compared to the CRV.

With 200,000 miles on a car maybe he just wanted a new one.
I doubt I would go with the FIT if I was doing long trips.

I have the Hyundai equivalent of the FIT, a Getz and its
fine for long trips with the only qualification that its not
big enough to be able to take a nap in lying down.

I cant sleep sitting down even with the seat declined.

A few years back I traded in a Camry that was 10 years old
and only had about 40,000 miles on it. Just wanted a new one

I don't operate like that. I am considering changing to the
latest incarnation of the Getz, the i30, but that's to get
a full cruise control. The Getz has no cruise control at all.

and at the time it was 0 % finance . So by leaving the money in the
IRA and financing it for 7 years I made a few more thousand. This
may be the last car I buy at my age no more than I drive in a year.

They probably did not even allow him $ 1000 for the trade,
just reworked the numbers to make it look that way.