> Why would you sign up for years worth of payments on a $15k+ car when you could just buy a used one outright for like $4k, and not have to worry about it? Be

> Why would you sign up for years worth of payments on a $15k+ car when you could just buy a used one outright for like $4k, and not have to worry about it? Because I want my child to be in a relatively new car, with a proven safety record, no history of accidents, surrounded by airbags and all the other safety features we've come up with. For $4k, she'd be sitting in the back seat of a 1992 Nissan Sentra, counting lane-changes through the rusted-out hole in the back-seat floor: "one... two... dad, the hole getting bigger!"