<prompt> Human: My situation: 200k loan debt. Accepted job at 114kyr 45min-1h commute out of the city will not be relocating due to wife. Plan is to aggressively pay off the debt in 5 years.Current car is a reliable sedan however it is beat to shit. Rusty paint, accident damage, windows dont work, AC is beginning to fail, no radiophone hookup. Hubcaps missing. You get the picture.Ive had this car for 8 years. 168k miles. All of this was fine when my drive to school was 20 minutes. however I dont see myself being able to continue doing a possible 2 hour total commute in this miserable rust bucket. I was thinking about fixing some of the glaring issues and giving the car to my grandma as she has no transportation currently and getting myself an affordable used commuter car.Is this a bad decision? Do you guys think I should fix whats wrong with the car and keep trucking? Also thoughts on a hybrid in my situation?  <response>: With that much debt its really easy to say, keep the rust bucket. However I understand your commute situation, and driving the rust bucket will make the commute even more unbearable. my advice would be to buy a cheap, reliable used car, an older Toyota or Honda. I recently bought a 1998 lexus ES 300 with 70k miles for under 4k. Congratulations on becoming a pharmacist! 