As I cruise listings between while on conference calls and between work tasks, I am finding it a non-trivial task to clearly look at cars as a short term beater solution or a long term "this is her car for the next three years" solution. The line keeps blurring to the point I'm looking at a 2011 (same gen as my wife's) 3.6R Limited which is the loaded version of her car with a pretty powerful H6 and a regular non-problem plagued automatic instead of a CVT with similar miles for $7k. That doesn't seem to be a good idea. Yet I keep looking at them.
I'm now sitting with beater type cash in my pocket in case that happens this weekend.