Moin, moin! I am very satisfied with my current car and I already know exactly which model should be purchased as a second vehicle. But I think of the winter at night, I am brought to sleep My Mazda is actually too bad to drive it in winter and honestly there are better winter cars from driving behavior. On snow life comes quickly to the rear. That can be funny, but if you have to drive and that is still 90 km daily, the Fun in limits. For my dream car/second car there is not enough coal yet, so I looked for a transitional and winter car. The first doubts come to me about the purchase of such a vehicle. A second car would definitely significantly reduce my saving rate for the next, beautiful car – the purchase would thus move further into the future. What would you do in my place? My Mazda did have a kind underbody and hollow last year. raumverseigelung with Fluid Film/Perma Film get and should therefore the winter use better cope than it would normally be the case. Should I now live ascetically, teeth bitten together, with the MX-5 through the winter to me to buy my V8 rapcat earlier or rather first spare the Mazda and take some money in the hand? Should the decision in favor of the winter car fail I stand again before a decision. Variant 1: do the Karre for 4-500 € ka ufen, put in another 200 € so that they drive again, drive 3/4 year and scrap / export for pocket money Disadvantages: the cars are already borderline scrapy Advantages: cheap Example: Mondeo Variant 2: I look for cars up to 1000 € and plug again 200 € in so that they drive again. For this there are about stronger engines, slightly larger, safer cars, which are not quite so scrapy. After half a year you should be able to sell a car like this again for 800 € Advantages: safer, probably reliable disadvantages: more capital tied Example: Focus What are your experiences like? Can you drive a car in price classes half-way carefree for a year without being afraid that you’ll be left with it? So let’s philosophize, I’m curious about your opinions.