Thoughts on buying a car myself

Well I just briefly spoke with BF. He seems lukewarm about the car idea. He said that we won’t need a car until the fall. I think he’ll come around though. After chatting about it for a few minutes, he suggested getting a cheap 4×4 truck so that we can access harder to reach hiking areas. I personally don’t want a 4×4 because 1) they are mostly standard and I can’t drive a stick, 2) they’re not fuel efficient, and 3) I don’t like driving big cars. But we can figure what kind of car is best for us once he gets home.

I think that, even if he doesn’t want to buy a car, I’ll probably get one myself. If I sell my scooter, I can get $1,500 for it. And if I buy from a dealership, I can get something relatively cheap (<$5k) with zero percent financing. Or if I buy privately, I have my line of credit with a very low interest rate. I don’t mind picking up all the costs on the car (which will be minimal, since I won’t have any rent to pay). Especially because BF has picked up the cost of having his car for the past 1.5 years for us, and I’ve definitely benefited from that car almost every single day.

But I don’t think it’ll come down to that. They say that once you have to start convincing someone about something, you’ve already lost. But I really think that once