04-22-2025, 12:54 AM
The car market is a lot more “it’s expensive e to be poor” than it used to be. For 20k you can get a 2023 Mazda CX-30 with 30k miles. It doesn’t really make sense to buy anything cheaper, unless you don’t have the money. To me the best deal out there right now is the Hyundai Ionic 5 lease, which is basically nothing down and 300/mo. For 3yrs. The Toyota Corolla you can get for the same is not anywhere near the same league of car. But there are always caveats.