<prompt> Human: Hi everyone,I want to perform a sanity check before going forward with the car buying process since Ive never bought a car before and may not be aware of the total cost of ownership of a vehicle. I graduated from college 1.5 years ago and am currently living at home with negligible to minimal expenses. Ive been using the family car to go to work everyday, but Ill eventually need to purchase my own since there will be more demand for the family car soon. Also, itll help when I eventually move out of the house. Im not in a hurry to buy one. The purchase will probably occur in Q2 2018.Background 24 year old male, single Lives in Midwest, USA Clean driving record Gross salary is 71,500. Im expecting the gross salary to go up to 75,000 in April 2018. After tax and contributions to investment accounts 20 to 401K 8 match, 5,500 to Roth IRA, 10 to employee stock purchase plan 15 discount, my monthly take home pay is around 2,500 30,000 a year. I am able to sell shares of my companys stock at the end of the year - so this could be a cash supplement to my take home pay. My only significant expenses are travelvacation expenses, but these only occur 2-3 times per year and spend at most 1,500 total for each trip. Otherwise, I live pretty frugally. I have a savings checking account where I park my emergency fund short term cash for upcoming purchases. Currently, this is probably over funded to account for an upcoming car purchase. Car in QuestionIm looking at a 2016 Certified Pre-Owned Civic EX or comparable car. Right now, theyre around 18,000 taxfees in my market. Im open to paying in cash or financing it if the rates are low enough. Id be driving this for a long time. If my net take-home is pay 2,500month 30,000 a year, the car purchase seems very high as a percentage of net pay. What I dont want to do is lower my contributions to retirementinvestment accounts to pay for any type of car. When I do move out no set date, it looks like rent around the area is around 1,000 for a single room.Any thoughts on whether this purchase is realistic? Thanks.  <response>: Its easily affordable for you. Treat it well 