My sister is car shopping and I have been recruited to assist with the process.
Her general parameters:
- New
- $50K or less
- Modern infotainment and ADAS features
- Reasonably quiet and roomy
- Good visibility
- A "nice" interior with some type of non-cloth seating
- Prefers to keep length under ~185" for ease of parallel parking in urban environments
- Decent fuel economy, hybrid preferred. However, she will only drive 6-8K/yr for the foreseeable future, so...
- Needs to be reasonably reliable for 7-10 years and ideally, something that I would be willing to work on.
So far, she has driven 9 vehicles and has narrowed it down to these 3 choices:
- 25 Lexus NX350h
- 25 Subaru Forester Limited
- 25 CR-V Hybrid Sport-L, but is also willing to consider the 1.5T EX-L
I don't particularly love any of those options but it is her car, not mine. Looking for feedback on vehicles we should be looking at, as well as general thoughts on the pros/cons of the 3 choices above.
Thanks.
Her general parameters:
- New
- $50K or less
- Modern infotainment and ADAS features
- Reasonably quiet and roomy
- Good visibility
- A "nice" interior with some type of non-cloth seating
- Prefers to keep length under ~185" for ease of parallel parking in urban environments
- Decent fuel economy, hybrid preferred. However, she will only drive 6-8K/yr for the foreseeable future, so...
- Needs to be reasonably reliable for 7-10 years and ideally, something that I would be willing to work on.
So far, she has driven 9 vehicles and has narrowed it down to these 3 choices:
- 25 Lexus NX350h
- 25 Subaru Forester Limited
- 25 CR-V Hybrid Sport-L, but is also willing to consider the 1.5T EX-L
I don't particularly love any of those options but it is her car, not mine. Looking for feedback on vehicles we should be looking at, as well as general thoughts on the pros/cons of the 3 choices above.
Thanks.
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