5th Nov 2009, 15:08

Neon and reliable don't really go together well. They are the cheapest quality cars out there, which is why they were so inexpensive. Not saying no one ever got 200,000 miles out of one, but it is rare! Plus $8,000 was no bargain back when an Omni was a new car!! I bought my first brand new Mustang 5.0 in '88 for $12,000. Now a loaded V-8 powered Mustang is around $30K, so in today's dollars your Omni would be about $17,000 or more. Not much of a bargain when you can buy a Hyundai Accent for $9,995, and it has a 10 year 100,000 mile warranty on it.