Sabo,+Jake

Jake Sabo's Car


 * 2004 Nissan 350Z Coupe**

287 horsepower, 3.5-liter V6; it's a very sleek car with a lot of power. Front/side-head/side-body airbags and an alarm system also make it a very safe choice. It's also got front-bucket seats and auto-climate control for the comfort of the driver. I do not want any extra features added to the car; it's great as it is.

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The auto loan that I got was from Dollar Bank. It was a four year loan with a rate of 4.24%. I needed a $12,000 loan to purchase the vehicle, and I would be paying $272.24 per month in order to pay off the loan.

I'm not totally sure if I did the insurance correctly; it looked like way too big of a number to me. But I filled out an online quote service as accurately as I could, and this is what I got.

Maintenance will cost, as a very rough estimate, about $900 a year. Considering that it's an eight-year old vehicle, some things won't work 100% correctly and may need to be replaced. Between that and any odd maintenance that all cars require, I guessed $900 yearly.

I do not actually have to drive that much right now. It's basically from home to school, school to work and then at the end of the day from work to home. I've multiplied 6.5 by 180 to represent school, then added it to 5 times 365 to add any other factors, from work to just hanging out. The total of these figures came up to 2995 miles, which seems like a fair estimate of what I drive in a year at this time in my life. After calculating this with the 18 city/24 highway mpg that the Nissan 350Z Coupe gets, I've reached my totals. I should go through a little over 140 gallons of gas in a year, and at $4.01 a gallon, I should spend $567.14. I would be paying an average monthly cost of $47.27 if I drove this car. I used [] to obtain an estimation of what I would pay for the $12,000 loan, and that led me to finding the site which I used to get an insurance quote.

I think the project should be either 30 or 40 points. I put two days of work into this, and I'd be a little upset if it were for the same grade as a large packet or two worksheets.