You have educated yourself in how to operate a car, you are licenced to drive a car, and you have experienced yourself in driving someone else's car. Now you KNOW you want to buy your own car, but do you know which car is best for you? There are many different types of cars; large or small ones, new or used ones, foreign or domestic ones. My best recommendation is to buy a cheap car that has been proven to run well with little maintenance. But most importantly is to buy one that you will love to drive. And if you can find a car that you love to drive that is cheap, and runs well with little maintenance, you should buy it.

Many people buy a car just because it is cheap. These people know little about cars, and think that they will be able to travel down the road of success only to have it break down on them somewhere miles from home, and find it will cost them more money to tow the car home and have it fixed, than it cost to buy the car. In the business world these are called "Get rich quick schemes". Do not buy into them, not only will they cost you lots of time and money, you will be embarrassed by your friends and family who said "I told you so" after you so proudly showed them your beautiful lemon of a car.

Many people will l buy a large and expensive car that makes them look and feel powerful, only to find out that they can't afford the payments. In the business world these may be the lawyers who spend their parents' life savings becoming a lawyer, only to find out that they are struggling, accepting personal injury cases to stay alive. Or the doctors who can't keep their practices open because of the high cost of malpractice insurance due to the lawyers.

Some will buy a car that they don't even like, hoping that this car will take them to their destination. But because they don't like it, they don't take care of it, and it quickly rusts away in the back yard with all the other rusting cars they have bought. Often times people will start a business simply because they want to be rich, and have no passion for what they are doing, and it is to no surprise that these businesses fail.

Others will borrow money to buy a car, pay an arm and a leg to drive the car, only to have the car be repossessed if there is an unforeseen circumstance that causes them to miss a few payments. In this analogy, I will refer to those who find a high interest business loan to buy a business. Their intentions are good, and their planning and execution are excellent, but with one unforeseen circumstance (a delay in production, an error in delivery schedule, a new competitor to your market, etc...) may lead to the lender owning the business you have built and dedicated yourself to.

So you can see that finding the right car is fundamental in being able to drive on the road to success. In my case, I got into a car that required a lot of maintenance. I saw the benefits of owning this car and didn't look at the time I needed to spend fixing up the car to get it into a drivable condition. But it was my passion for driving that led me to put in the time, money and effort into rebuilding my car into a reliable automobile. Many people in this or any of the other cases would have quit driving. They have owned a car and it was a bad experience to them, so they will, for the rest of their lives be a passenger, or worse, a hitch-hiker.