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.
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.
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.
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