Depends on the car. If its assembled in Japan, there is nothing wrong with C. You can get a car with 150K miles and it'll run just fine for the next 50K miles.

Depends on the car. If its assembled in Japan, there is nothing wrong with C. You can get a car with 150K miles and it'll run just fine for the next 50K miles. However, if it was assembled in USA/Canada, I'd be wary with it, and wouldn't get a car with more than 50K miles. The assembly point is very important. As an example, with Hondas pretty much all non-Japan assembled vehicles have transmission problems. Getting a new car makes no sense, unless you plan to lease. Go look on Craigslist, there are a whole bunch of good deals on there.