For a new car... Unless you’re going the Alibaba “car” route (a la Torch’s amazing Chang-Li), you’re not finding a new car for $4500 or less. And all used cars were new at some point, and somebody payed the new car price for it.
Also, most of the cars mentioned here cost less new than what I paid for a used (in the…

As the owner of a imported Canadian BMW, it does come with some extra baggage... Nothing you can’t work around, but it’s there... The biggest thing for me is the ECUs are (at least in my case) programmed in metric units, and even if you set everything to display in freedom units, it still reports everything off the…