tl;dr - Should I spend 10,000 dollars on a 2006 2.0GT Spec.B Wagon, that has 32,000 km ( 20k miles ) on it? It has the 5EAT with paddles and is fairly clean.
Here is a link to the car, if the forum lets me post it:
https://www.carsensor.net/usedcar/detail/VU5504206841/index.html?TRCD=200002&RESTID=CS210610
The other option is about $20,000 on a 2017 Golf Alltrack, at 6,000 miles.
(Actually I am in Japan, and thinking 100 yen = 1 dollar, so take 10% off those prices at current exchange for real prices.) I am drowning in Subaru here. I need help seeing the forest for the trees. Help me, oh-subi-wan!
So, family happens, and I have been tasked with finding a station wagon to go with the new house. I am very very close to getting the golf alltrack - modern, safe, sensible, and fun to drive... but not really. It's peppy but never gonna be any use at the track. It IS a great car,
but for half the price or less I can have an old Legacy... with looks just as good (and way better from the rear), more believable AWD, and in some cases just as much power as my old MR2 (rest in pieces, darling).
My main concern is with the AT transmission, and whether the car I am looking at is really worth 10k at that mileage. I have no idea. AT is necessary for the lady drivers in the house, but giving up the dual-clutch manumatic of the Golf for an old school auto is concerning. I have never met an AT that loved me back.
Smaller concerns; Tax on old cars here gets progressively higher, and the engine is on the large side of another tax. For better or worse, i think it is impossible to get any kind of collision insurance due to the age. the system here will just let me buy liability which would be quite cheap.
So.. opinions? Or has one of you already gone and swiped that car? Sorry to post such a textwall on my first post. Either of these cars will be the most expensive I have ever bought, because adult stuff. ... But the Subaru will let me stay a teenager just a little bit?
I will go see some legacy wagons on the weekend, including the car I linked. Love the 4th-generation styling (can't stand the later models), but they are still holding strong value for the GT models so I am wondering if $10k / 20,000 miles is a decent price.
Thanks in advance!
Edit; Oh and I forgot, for a similar price there is a 2009 Outback 2.5 XT with 32k miles on it... link; https://www.carsensor.net/usedcar/detail/VU5558788675/index.html?TRCD=300001 - is that reasonable?
