<prompt> Human: I bought it exactly one year ago knowing it would t last that long. It was just to travel between cities and finish my last year of college while working two jobs. I paid 1,000 for it at 130,000 miles. Now its just coming to its end and I dont want to finance anything. I would like to buy a decent manual car that will last a few years while we save. So Im trying to see if there are some unknown places I need to look for cars instead of auto trader and the likes. My commute to work is all freeway and takes me an hour. Would be willing to spend 5000. Any thoughts?Edit: Just want to thank the community for all the responses. This is all very helpful. Thank you all.  <response>: search up chrisfix on youtube. He has a GREAT series about buying a used car. 