Choice and purchase of a car is a quite difficult problem: first, it demands certain expenses, and second, you have to define your requirements to the characteristics, a level of safety and comfort, and, certainly, car class. You may have your preferences in favour of this or that mark, but do not forget, that you’ll have to pay the corresponding price for the famous brand.

Color and body
Choice of car color depends of course on your private tastes. Tastes are different, but from the point of view of safety it is better to buy a yellow, red or white car. Such cars are clearly visible on the road in the night, and according to the statistics they rarely have accidents. Besides these cars are less heated on the sun, i.e. in summer it will be not so hot inside (but it does not mean, that it is not necessary to hide a car in a shadow on parking). But buyers of these cars should clean them properly, all dirtiness is visible on a light background. Those who prefer dark colors, should necessarily protect their cars from the sun and to wipe them carefully after washing, because dried up drops are visible. An optimum variant is a light brown car, which may be not so popular, but cars of such colors are seldom stolen.
The choice of a body depends on the car function. For daily work and home trips the sedan is quite appropriate. The class of the car - from an average up to elite - depends on your requirements to a level of comfort. Station wagon and minivan are considered to be family cars. Though lately, small city jeeps were also put in this category. Car has to be big enough for family travels. For trips on the nature, where roads are not so good, it is recommended to take jeeps (real ones, instead of so-called "parquet").

Engine
The choice of the engine is based on such issues as capacity, fuel consumption, dynamics of acceleration and, eventually, a fuel.
For small cars the figure up to 150 horse-powers is acceptable, for sedans it is enough to have about 200 horse-powers and if you need a more powerful engine, don’t forget that it costs more. Additional power not only influences the maximal speed, but also acceleration dynamics. It is necessary for a bigger confidence at overtaking. But with power increase the fuel consumption will also increase, and it is necessary to find a golden middle "power/profitability". In fact you are going to spend a lot of money on fuel, as well as on services. Therefore it is necessary to think about a kind of fuel. It isn’t very difficult to count how much you’ll approximately spent on petrol or diesel with equal powers, but it may be important. You should also consider that diesel engines, besides being economic, are also long living. Though in winter these engines can cause many problems, very often it is difficult to start them. Another disadvantage is a higher noise level in comparison with petrol engines. The advantage of petrol engines is in their working power, i.e. such cars are more dynamic.

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