WTF should I buy (A consolidated list of bad decisions)

[ryangreen1]

Most everyone around here driving around in off-lease base model 3-series are driving the most basic shit you can buy with a propeller on the hood, DGAF about cars or driving and only the appearance of what's sitting in the driveway and its terrible.  I apologize that you have to be lumped into that crowd.  I dont think you can get CPO cars, but if you buy from a dealer you can negotiate in an aftermarket extended warranty.  Some are good, and some arent worth the paper they're written on.  

To echo RJ, buying a car for appearances is BS. As a car guy I respect someone who bought a Toyota Sienna more than someone who leased a 320i. At least he or she bought something practical and not an overpriced econobox trying to appear like he or she has money.

Yea I'll just get another corolla before I get a base model BMW thats a slightly nicer econobox for twice the money. I couldn't care less about the brand name. Aftermarket warranty saved me 2 grand on the forester when the turbo blew, so if that's an option on whatever I want to buy I'll do some research on it.

that's a shame.  any possibility you can tell your parents "yeah nah i'm good" and just buy a car with your own money that you like?  i'm not saying a slammed forester wouldn't look a bit odd in the parking lot of certain businesses, but i don't think you really want the approval of the kind of people that would look down their nose at you for it.

Idgaf what people think about my car since most people hate it anyway, including one of my best friends. Everyone in my parents neighborhood owns a new white crew cab Colorado and new white Tahoe, while the wives drive base model leased German cars so that's how they think.
I wish I could just buy something with my own money, but I'm in pharmacy school which is basically a full time job I have to pay a ton to work, and don't have much time to work an actual job so I don't have too much money saved up. Definitely not complaining about whatever I end up in because its a way better situation than most people, I'd just like to find a nice middle ground in something I'd enjoy.