Thanks for the responses. It looks like a lot of the vehicles available have salvage titles on them. I'm not familiar with what that means or how it might impact her when she eventually goes to trade it in. Pros/Cons to a salvage title?
Salvage titles just mean the car was totaled, so it was more expensive for the insurance company to pay to fix it than the car was actually worth.
In order to be able to buy and drive the cars, they have to have been "rebuilt" and have a rebuilt title. So, basically a body shop or someone buys the car, fixes them up to where they are legal to drive on the roads, and then they sell them.
A couple things with salvage cars/titles:
1. You most likely will only be able to get liability insurance on these cars from an insurance company, but you may have to shop around to find companies willing to insure you.
2. I would definitely recommend having someone you trust (mechanic) look over the vehicle extensively to see how well it was rebuilt. My first car was a salvage title car and while it did last me like 7ish years, there were still many issues with it where it had to go back to a mechanic fairly regularly. Some stuff was just things that lots of cars experience (oils leaks, etc.), but others were larger issues that probably wouldn't have occurred with normal vehicles.
3. Resale of these will be much lower than non-salvaged vehicles, and there may be some dealerships that will not allow trade-ins. Kind of depends on the dealership.
