{"id":430,"date":"2015-07-25T07:53:10","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T07:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foreigneratharvard.org\/?page_id=430"},"modified":"2018-05-16T11:11:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T11:11:51","slug":"buying-a-car","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/pundit\/sample-page-2\/buying-a-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Buying a car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Buying a car<\/strong><br \/>\nIt may be a great idea, if you plan to take it back home, especially in Europe (see in <a href=\"\/pundit\/bureaucracy\/visa-insurance-and-varia\/\">bureaucracy section<\/a>, you can save 30+ thousand dollars on tariffs\/tax\/price, depending on a model- from previous experience, you can save a lot on some Jeep, Subaru, Mazda, and Nissan models). Always negotiate the price for a new car, relying on info from websites such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carsdirect.com\">CarsDirect<\/a>. Dariusz did it twice, always was at least able to meet the price from CarsDirect. <\/p>\n<p><a title=\"By Redsimon at en.wikipedia [CC BY 2.5 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.5)], from Wikimedia Commons\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AAustin_A110_Westminster_MkII_head.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"300\" alt=\"Austin A110 Westminster MkII head\" title=\"By Redsimon [CC BY 2.5], from Wikimedia Commons\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/13\/Austin_A110_Westminster_MkII_head.jpg\/512px-Austin_A110_Westminster_MkII_head.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you buy a used car (which Dariusz did once, but you should be aware it is a snake pit), definitely invest into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carfax.com\">CarFax<\/a> (a website listing all major accidents for a car, basing on its VIN number), and also check <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbb.com\/\">Kelley Blue Book<\/a> to estimate the used car actual value. Whether you buy a car, or just rent, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaa.com\/\">AAA<\/a> membership is good in case things go wrong on the road and quite cheap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buying a car It may be a great idea, if you plan to take it back home, especially in Europe (see in bureaucracy section, you can save 30+ thousand dollars on tariffs\/tax\/price, depending on a model- from previous experience, you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4496,"featured_media":0,"parent":6,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-430","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6Lylu-6W","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/430\/revisions\/658"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}