<prompt> Human: Hi everyone. My wife and I just bought a house literally 2 weeks ago and today my car has officially died. I have been making due with it in terrible shape for almost 2 years now but it has finally met its maker. It was a 94 Camry with massive cosmetic damage to the passenger side from sliding along a guardrail in the late winter of 2013. Since then it has chewed through a set of el-cheap-o tires pretty bad alignmentsuspension problems that I threw on it hoping to get a year from the car. It made it that year and then some but this morning the radiator blew and its time for it to go.Some financial information: 75k combined income...this will increase to 100k in 3 weeks since my wife graduated a month ago and will start her new job at the end of the month. She has been hired, thats just her start date. Our house was 215k, we put 10k down so the mortgage is for 205k. We have a 6000 emergency fund that I was hoping to get to 10k ASAP. I have about 35k in my 401k. Im 30, wife is 26.Mortgage: 1400GasElecWaterSewerInternetTV: 300Cell Phones: 100Student Loans: 300Car Insurance currently: 50Other than that we dont have any other debt. I pay off the credit cards 2-3x per month. Our other car is a 2004 Taurus which should be good for a few more years. My long term plan was to get our Emergency fund at a better level, then replace my Toyota, then replace the Taurus. Since the Toyota has bit the dust, Im not sure where to go from here. I was really hoping that I could see exactly how our finances were going to work out before buying a new car, but now I dont really have that luxury. With a new house, my wifes new job, and our new income, what do you think is reasonable for me to do?Option 1: Buy another clunker for 1000 from the Emergency fund to get me hopefully through the winter.Option 2: Get a credit union loan 1.9 for 8-10k and get a 2008 or newer decent car.Thanks for any help!___Edit: I like to tinker, so Im working on patching up the radiator that is in the car in the hopes it will get me another month or two. Its holding water, now if it can only survive at temperaturepressure...  <response>: I was really hoping that I could see exactly how our finances were going to work out before buying a new car, but now I dont really have that luxury. Option 3: Since a 1000 car isnt likely to be any more reliable than your Camry go to your friendly local autoparts store and spend 150 on a new radiator, cap, and coolant. Once you get it on the road again read forums or ask an alignment shop to figure out what steeringsuspension parts are worn and replace those. Then get it aligned. Youll be out less than 1k and have a known quantity. If you arent going to swap parts yourself, Id go with option 2. 