[belvedere]

So my girlfriend really wants a new car and I've been pushing her towards a subaru, I'm a loyal subaru junkie. She has between $4,000 and $5,500 for her new car and yesterday we went to a used car dealership in Los Angeles. No subarus, but tons of PT cruisers and the prices we insane!!!!

2001-2004 PT cruisers with less than 70k on them going for 5-7k.

I thought they might be beat up, but they were clean.

I went home and hopped on Craigslist and there again, several very nice PT cruisers from 2001-2004 with less than 100k for under 5 grand!!!!

I see 98 honda civics with 120k go for $5-6k. I see 99 subaru foresters going for $7,000.

So my question is: WHY ARE THESE CARS SOOO CHEAP???

I'm test drove a 2003 with 68k miles and it drove like a dream. The dealership was looking for $6,000 and when I went to walk away the guy asked if I would give him $5,000 to make the sale today.

Did they make too many of these cars and now there's a surplus and no one wants them???

I don't typically see one on Craiglist with over 100k on it, do they blow a head gasket at 100,000 miles on the dot? Is there some mystical PT cruiser junkard with thousands of 2000-2008 PT cruisers with 110k miles on them because they detonate?

I'm kind of at a loss....

Please talk me out of buying one because if you don't I'm going to go buy one this weekend. These prices are ridiculous.

Love,
subaru man