<prompt> Human: Hello Personal Finance.A little about me. I have a stable full time job that brings in 2,300 per month after taxes. Ive been driving a 2000 Honda Accord V6 with 270000 miles. My parents supplied the car. The transmission is going to crap: it pops out of gear and is experiencing all of the horrible things that happen to generation 6 Honda Accords. It is parked right now and Im driving my grandmas car for the week. I need a car for my job: I live in rural Minnesota where everything is far apart. My commute is 120 miles daily. I have zero debt, my rent through my girlfriend is 300 a month, and I need reliable transportation. I grew up in a shop--I know how cars work and can do most car things--oil, tires, calipers etc. Id rather not screw around with installing a remanufactured transmission and wait for it to fail, or other portions of the car. Im seriously leaning towards buying a new car. I know PF hates new cars, but hear me out. Ive been driving old beater cars my whole life, mostly Hondas. At this point in my life I want the car to be a reliable service that I pay for like an ISP. My credit is great, I have money down: is a 20,000 dollar Civic or equivalent car worth it?Ive been in the shop with my brother working on his ancient car--a 1993 Acura Legend he wont give up on even though its given up on him and Im drunk and exhausted. Thank you for reading.  <response>: We recently bought a car, and were very disappointed, in our area, in the lack of good deals on low mileage off-lease cars. At best it was only 1-3k less than the current, new year. Despite pf feelings on it, we bought new this time around. Id recommend a Toyota or Honda with around 75k miles with all the service documentation if possible. Nothing much older than 5 to 7 years imho.A 20k Honda civic is, while a good car, not good car for the money imho. The car market is hot right now, especially in the fuel-economical sub market. Those cars arent really going for very good deals these days. To illustrate, in 2010 I got my current Toyota Camry new for 21.5k otd, when the car market was slower. Now is the time to buy older used, not recent off lease as those deals wont be very good deals.Also much respect at getting so many miles on your accord transmission. I had a 2001 accord that I also got new, and the transmission was replaced twice under warranty, and was going out a third time when I traded it in around 105k miles. I was disappointed in that car, and the 2000 to 2002 model years all had increased rates of faulty transmissions. 