Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, a show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge,

skills, insight, and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now, while

building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

My name is Joshua Sheets, and I'm your host today, we continue our series on How to Buy

a Car with Episode 2.

Today we're going to talk about how to decide what kind of car you should buy.

Episode 1, we talked about deciding whether you should buy a car or not, try to give you

some of the reasons that, of course, you would want to buy a car, try to also give you

some counter-arguments as to some of the good reasons to avoid buying a car.

I think if you listen to that episode and you go through some of the reasons, you'll

figure out what's right for you, and recognize that what's right for you today might change

in the future.

Right now, it's right for me to have a car.

Someday in the future, I'll probably dream of a day when I don't have to have a car

anymore.

But that's Episode 1.

Today, though, we want to talk about what kind of car you should buy.

And primarily, I want to give you some things to think about so that you can make an intelligent

choice.

The reason this choice is important has to do with what I led off in the previous episode.

Simply that purchasing a car and your decision around a car will generally be one of your

more expensive decisions.

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