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

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

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

On today's podcast, I want to share with you the single best technique for sourcing

a quality used car.

This episode, of course, fits into our How to Buy a Car series.

In episode one of that series, I talked about how to decide whether you should buy a car

or not.

I encourage that if possible, without giving too much lifestyle, just skip having a car.

Then of course, acknowledging that most of us are going to choose to have a car for

various reasons, we talked in episode two about how to decide what kind of car you should

buy, and then episode three setting a budget for that car, deciding how much you should

spend on a car before you go and look.

The natural outcome of the budget, for many people, is going to be that the decision about

buying a used car or a new car is going to be fairly obvious.

Remember that we're aiming for somewhere between around 10% of our annual income to as high

as 50%.

The lower the better for wealth creation purposes, as long as you can get a vehicle

that's appropriate for your needs.

That's our target in terms of overall spending, meaning amount of money to spend on a car

across our household, aiming for 10%.

If you're serious about wealth building and up to as high as 50%, if your wealth building

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