How to buy a car

People often make mistake while buying a car. I am not saying that people don't think before buying. Most of the people do a lot of research before buying a car. In spite of this they end up making wrong choices most of the time. The reason is that they are carried away by not-so-important eye candy features. They tend to ignore the essential ones.

The first step and the most difficult one is to ignore the price of the car(or any other thing you are planning to buy, like mobile etc). Just don't let price influence your choice for now. After this make a list of the cars you like in an order. I mean rank them without considering their price. You will be surprised to see that the expensive ones are not always better! It is very difficult to rank cars ignoring their price, but its important.

Apart from most of the general/common features it is important to think about these factors and features- mileage, exclusiveness and sun roof.

Firstly mileage. Everyone wants good mileage. But these figures are misleading. Don't prefer car A just because it gives 15kmpl over car B which gives 14kmpl. 1kmpl doesn't matter at all. So set a threshold. There should be significant difference in mileage, only then consider this factor.

Exclusiveness. I give this a lot of importance. I want my car to be the only one of its kind on the road. Everyone should look at it and it should not be easily available. Thats why opt for a limited edition whenever possible. Sometimes a limited edition C-segment car is much better than owning a D-segment car!

Other cool features. So these 'cool' features include things like sun roof, air scoops/vents etc. Tech features like instantaneous mileage indicator don't come under this category. They are not so important.

So that was just a glimpse of factors that affect car selection. There are other things, but the above were just a few of them. Rank them according to the features you are looking for, ignoring price. Then select the first car which falls under your budget. This method may result in the same car you had decided earlier but at least you will see that your choice is better than some of the more expensive ones :)