Lack of money made my decision easy!

And you know, I'm probably better off for it. Instead of buying what I would've liked, a brand new Honda Odyssey at $27,000, I wound up buying a 1996 Ford Windstar for less than $9,000 - 1/3 the cost of the new Honda. Our used Ford has 65,000 miles on it. We put some money into getting it well serviced, and now it gets us around just as well an anything else.
When we'd had the van about a week, it got a big scrape along one side in a parking lot... which just blends right in with all the other minor dings, dents, and scratches! If that happened to a brand new car, I'd be pulling my hair out wondering how to pay to fix it and still make a monthly payment.