A list of cars under 1000 dollars that are reliable to use, low maintenance, worth buy, with higher second hand value, and with high clunker rebate are listed here. When economy crisis hit the world, there were even cheaper cars available like cars under 500 dollars. One man’s bargain is another man’s extravagance, go for a good bargain car, but do not forget about the car problems and the maintenance cost you will need to pay. Let’s go through the list and check out with the dealer around your area, calculate your own financial, diagnose a car problem online to check out the future maintenance fee, and choose the most right car for yourself. Anyway, you can always customize your own car after get the car, make it to any tricked out cars or pimped out cars.

So, where to find cars under 1000 dollars?

• Second hand car or used car dealer. Travel around the area you stay and find it!
• Best place to bargain is government auto auctions. When economy down, a lot of car owners are not able to pay for their car loan and government have to send these car go for auto auctions, where the good buy begin. Cheap cars are not a dime a dozen, but there are a lot of chances to get one or two during each auction. There is lot of people under estimate the value in car auctions, sometimes there are tons of worth buy impounded cars for sale.
• Online auction. eBay motors always have a good buy. You can anytime see cars under 1000 dollars for sale, some cars available are just start from 100 dollars. There is also some other online cars store besides eBay that having lots of project cars for sale.
• Drive to junk yard. Remember the famous movie “Herbie” in 2005? Maggie Peyton gets her Volkswagen bug for few hundred dollars from a junk yard and it turn to become a NASCAR competitor. In the famous movie “Transformer”, Sam Witwicky gets his 1974 Camaro for 500 dollars, it then turn to become a Bumblebee. Well, this doesn’t means car you get at junk yard can become super stars, it shows cheap and good cars can be found at any junk yard, it is a good place to hunt for some worth buy sweet cars.

All these cheap cars might with a little bit more age than most standard street cars but it is able to bring you to where you want to go without having to take cab or taxi and spend a bigger cost. Some of these cars are in cool shape and some people are purposely looking for cool muscle cars for sale.

Financial point of view for cars under 1000 dollars

There are pro and cons to buy cheap cars, this have to judge according to your personal financial, here is the list of pro and cons to consider when you buying a cheap cars.

Pros:

• Cheap to buy
• Low repair labour/cost. Usually these cars are using simple mechanism, it does not have any new technology such as ECU and it can be repaired without requiring expensive computer to diagnose the car problem, therefore the labour to repair these cars is cheaper.
• Low low low depreciation. How much that you expect to lost for depreciation for a car that cost a grand or $1000?
• Possible antic value. If you choose a right car that has a classic value, rebuild it and keep it well. The car value will go up after several years. Have you read the news about Papa John’s boss spent $250,000 to buy back his 1971 Chevrolet Camaro Z28?

Cons:

• Parts are hardly found. This is pretty much depends on the area you stay and the brand of the car you choose. If you choose a cheap cars that parts are hardly found, then is not a smart decision. In Asia, Toyota, Honda, Nissan…etc Japanese car parts can be easily found in junk yard with cheap price. In Europe, cheap car accessories for Audi, BMW, Ferrari, Peugeot, Mercedes-Benz, MINI, Jaguar…etc are easy to get just around the corner. In US, Chevrolet, Ford…etc parts is easy to get in hands.
• Hard to pickup hot car girls. Well, this world is materialistic and cruel. You don’t even think of sending the car to hot car wash girls to wash it.
• Higher fuel consumption. Earlier automobile technology for some cars having a higher fuel consumption. See also the gasoline price history.

Cars under 1000 dollars

• 2002 Saturn S-Series (Bidding price could be under 1000 dollars)
• 1999 Ford Escort SE 7
• 1997 Jeep Grand Cherokee
• 1995 Ford Windstar
• 1995 Ford Taurus GL/SE
• 1994 Chevrolet Caprice
• 1990’s Toyota Previa LE
• 1990’s Toyota Avalon
• 1990’s Mitshubishi Montero 4 x 4
• 1990’s Mercedes-Benz 190-Series
• 1990 Saab
• 1990 Geo Prism
• 1990 Ford Mustang GT (see also muscle car wallpaper)
• 1989 Nissan Maxima SE 4 door
• 1987 Volvo 740
• 1987 BMW 3-Series 325
• 1984 Chevrolet Chevy Celebrity 4 door
• 1984 Cadillac DeVille Elegante (see Cadillac quality issues in the 1980s)
• 1980 Dodge Aspen/Power Wagon
• 1974 Ford Crew F-Series
• 1973 Chevrolet Chevelle
• 1971 Chevrolet Chevelle 350
• 1970’s Volkswagen Beetle
• 1970’s Dodge Caravan (7 passengers)
• 1970’s Chevrolet Camaro (The car in transformer)
• 1970 Ford Maverick
• 1969 Volvo 144
• 1969 Ford Fairlane
• 1968 Pontiac Le Mas
• 1966 Ford Galaxie 2 door
• 1965 Chevrolet Corvair
• 1957 Buick Roadmaster (This Buick is anchestor of what kind of car does Tiger Woods drive today)
• 1950’s 60’s 70’s 80’s 90’s Classic Mini Cooper (The car in the 60’s movie “The Italian Job”)
• 1946 Chevrolet Ratrod

If you notice, there are a lot of car dealers attend to government or bank auto auctions. This is because great deal can be found there and a good profit for car dealer. What car dealer do is they replace whatever parts is needed, and paint the car with new color to make it look nice as long as the car body is well maintain. In the market, there are many more cars under 1000 dollars.