<prompt> Human: Hello anyone who is checking this out. i just found out about 20,000 my grandmother left me after she died while discussing what car to get. with my mother. we were looking at a 2017 dodge charger for 18,000 and i said that it may be too much for me when my mother told me about this money that my grandmother left me originally for collage but i have that on lock down already with no debt. so i dont know what i should do. should i buy the car, should i invest it or whatever else. please give me any advice you have!Assistant: Invest it.Why buy a depreciating asset? Human: well its coming to the point where i need a car in the coming months to get to the places i need to and i dont want to invest into a cheap car and i would like something decent and i was orginally looking in the ballpark of 12-14k but now that this option is on the table i was considering this.  <response>: Im sorry, but its not a good financial idea. You came to a personal finance subreddit for advice. A 2017 dodge charger is a poor financial decision. A car is a purchase, not an investment. The healthy financial move is to buy a certified pre owned sedan for 12-15k and drivemaintain it for a decade. Any other decision is not financially-motivated. 