Can I afford it?
Does it meet the criteria which mean I can use it as my day to day car?
Do I want it?
- subset: Do I want it more than anything else which obeys these criteria?
That's the lot I think.
I owned an Alfa 145 Cloverleaf for three years based on this analysis - only being replaced when a Fiat Coupe started to meet the 'afford' criteria, and therefore exceeded it on the 'want more than others' one.
The Fiat Coupe I owned for 2 years, at which point an Alfa 156 GTA Sportwagon dropped into 'affordable', and also a bit of forward thinking on the practicality criteria led me to want a 5 door.
The GTA I've now had for three years, and I can't see it being replaced for a good long while yet. It's perfectly practical for me, and desirable to the extent that I can't see anything short of about £35k which I would even consider wanting over it, despite its own value being probably around £8k.
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