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BurnDoubt

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22. We LOVE our CMax.

Thu Dec 4, 2025, 01:50 PM

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We’re on our third. First one (2014) we sold to our son who drives it halfway down California every week working as an Electrician Trainee.
Our second, a 2018 was destroyed when our large Elm tree twisted-off the top half and dropped down through the windshield and severed the steering column completely off. Remarkably, it still started and ran like a top.
My lovely wife applied her amazing shopping skills and found us another 2018, nearly the same color, less mileage and the exact same payment.
We used CarMax for both of those transactions, and it all went very smoothly and stress-free.
I’ll be 75 in a couple of weeks, and I’m hoping this will be the last car we have to buy. So-far-so-good.

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