What Cheap Car Could You Afford With Your Tax Refund?

Tax time has travel and gone, and now we are seeing a very bladed trickle of returns coming immoderate Americans' way. Somehow, my hubby and I ended up getting backmost astir $2,000, while my relative and his wife, who are nationalist schoolhouse teachers hardly making ends meet, ended up owing nan government. The mysterious alchemy of our taxation laws will ne'er cease to amaze me. 

Anyway, acknowledgment to this small windfall from our masters, my eyes began scanning done Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist again. It sewage maine thinking, successful this era of ostentation and $1,000 monthly car payments, what benignant of car tin a personification get pinch conscionable their authorities cheque successful hand? All we publication and constitute astir each time is how costly cars are nowadays, truthful what does a inexpensive car look for illustration successful 2026? 

That's what I'm asking you today: What car could you reasonably spend pinch your taxation return?

Just return a infinitesimal to return it each in. In each its glory, a 2007 Pontiac Grand Prix. With conscionable 139,000 miles connected it, this babe has sewage full months near successful her. Hell, possibly a year. All joking aside, this is intelligibly a well-loved illustration of nan floundering brand's past gasps. These cars are amazingly sturdy. I still spot tons of Grands Prix and its smaller sister vehicles, the G5 and G6, motoring astir Detroit successful awesome moving order. This orphaned Pontiac sports a 200-horsepower 3.8-liter V6 nether nan hood, 1 of GM's famously durable 3800 engines. The existent proprietor says it runs well, and I judge them. 

Does it person a fewer bumps and scrapes? You betcha. Is it a subsister that will return a licking and support connected ticking for immoderate time, each for nan low, debased costs of $1,700, positive nan $20 it takes to transverse nan Ambassador Bridge (this very Detroit car is really successful Ontario)?  Also, you betcha. And that's astir what nan feds decided to springiness backmost alternatively of sending it to SpaceX or Raytheon. Wins each around. What astir you? What car are you buying pinch your come-back cash?