to play out the story of why i need something, i'll go back to july...my wife and i pulled over to help someone who's car was broken down...long story short, the car had no lights due to bad alternator, and got rearended...car that hit him bounced off him and hit my wife's car, totaling it...we took the guy that hit us to court and lost...we are gonna take the guy who was broke down to court next i guess....my wife needs a cheap, 1500 or less car that is preferably a sedan and automatic, but we'll consider whatever...we have her mom's subaru wagon right now, and they were borrowing a friend's car, but the friend needed it back, and now we need to get her parent's car back to them, hence our dire need for a car...it needs to run good, but appearances aren't the most important at this point...i won't get my big bonus till the end of january probably, which is when we'll get something nicer for her, but right now, we need a quick fix...