Trying to help a single mom with 3 kids, what is out there right now....small SUV?

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@FrancisK

help out a friend on a fixed income that is already stretched thin

Perpetual lease payments aren’t the solution to this.

What would you buy for $10k?

Given the prices of most leases right now, I think it would be an interesting discussion on what reliable car one could buy for $10k with under 100k miles to hold you over for a year or so until chip shortage ends and prices start to “normalize”. What would you get?

Maybe go to $15k on a purchase of something that’ll run forever. She can put down the equity and finance the rest.