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Comment author: Elo 01 December 2015 06:34:36AM 0 points [-]

I suspect

in the usual way is an unhelpful line.

however the rest:

figure out your budget, figure out your requirements, look at cars in the intersection of budget and requirements and, provided the subset is not null, pick one which you like the most.

seems sound.

Comment author: Lumifer 01 December 2015 04:14:54PM 1 point [-]

is an unhelpful line

Its intent was to point out that purchasing cars is not qualitatively different from purchasing any other thing and that the usual heuristics one uses when buying, say, a computer, apply to buying cars as well.

Comment author: Jiro 01 December 2015 05:02:47PM 4 points [-]

Purchasing cars often requires haggling. Purchasing computers rarely does.

Also, cars are often bought used and it is in the interests of the salesman to conceal information about the used car from you such as hidden problems. Computers are more rarely bought used, rarely have hidden problems that can impair their long-term functioning but are not obvious, and when bought used are often not bought for a price high enough that it's even worth the seller's effort to deceive you about the status of the computer. Furthermore, computers cam be bought in pieces and cars cannot.

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