Better to buy used or new; quality/price?
Been saving up for a while slowly to buy out a car i was at first thinking of buying used just because i need a car in general fairly badly tired of catching uber to work and carpooling but thats my only options. If i carpool it's free but lately i have had to catch uber a lot thus savings get lower but it does progress at a slower rate overall.
i'm thinking of just buying a cheap yet reliable car that looks fairly new with low mileage. Right now i'm looking at Honda civics, corolla's, and Honda fit. Problem is a used fit with around say 30k miles costs just as much as a new one same trim and all. The civic's and corolla's tend to look badly shape the later the years are as well as the newer years tend to have just as much mileage as the older years ( i don't know where the fk these people are going to rack up 100k miles on say a 2016 model here which is considered high ) but the price tag is pretty hefty on something like that.
So i'm wondering which would be the best option. I can handle saving up long term and plan to for a new fit but wondering if the older cars that cost less but more mileage are better financially. I DO plan to keep said car for a LONG. Time saving to buy out a new fit will take me about a little over a year it's doable but is it worth it?