My civic needs some tie wraps to keep the bumper on at this point. This has kind of been what I've been waiting for before I start getting serious about getting a new car. Going to go to the Honda dealership on Saturday to just get some initial info and speak to a sales person. Last time my car flat out stopped running so getting a new car was kind of an emergency and was needed quickly, even with the tie wraps, my current civic is runs well enough that I can survive for a bit, but I'd rather just get something that's not going to look like a disaster and I've been wanting to upgrade for awhile. I'm really only interested in the Civic or Accord from Honda, I want to see if they have any older models laying around too, see if there's any price mark downs. Also maybe come back there at the end of the month to see if prices went down. But bottom line for what I am looking for, something with more power, I want more of the bells and whistles (moon roof, blu tooth, nice sound). I'd rather a small car, maybe a coupe, but a smaller sedan works too. Needs to be reliable (which is why I love my current civic, never had any issues with it) and I am not looking to spend over 30k (although some of my build your car models on their website have turned out to be slightly over, that's MSRP, I want to see how much lower I can possibly get such a car).
Anyway, since my cars guts seem fine, it's just asthetics that's my issue. I am also considering the idea of holding onto it and maybe just getting a used car or even leasing a car, if it makes sense with the dollars. Just want to start exploring my options with actual sales people and not just within my head.