If you had no choice but to replace your car...

We already have the "if you could have any car for any price" thread. This is a little different. The scenario: You parked your car at work on a pleasant, summery Friday morning, worked hard through the day, and walked out that afternoon confident that you had earned yourself a nice, low-stress weekend. Instead you arrived at your spot and found nothing but blackened pavement and four little nubs where your tires were. That's right, folks: First Contact! Alien teenager-equivalents have been joyriding in Dad's spaceship and hacked the anti-meteorite laser blaster to lock on to your specific model of car, obliterating it for their own amusement. It was hilarious...for them. For you it meant five very uncomfortable hours explaining the whole thing to your insurance company. (You just told your significant other that the car was stolen. It was a smart move. We all know why.) You can expect a check for roughly retail TMV(R) on Monday.



And now you must buy a car. Worse, since alien hoodlums don't understand what "leaving a note" is (or even that humans think they're sentient), you have to pay for it yourself (including insurance money). What do you buy?



Aaaaaaand....go!

If you had no choice but to replace your car...