Cause to drive 90 minutes to work each day will pretty much destroy the car before you pay it off.
maybe destroy the cars value, but not nesciraly destroy the cars performance... as has already been stated.
to many people buy cars purly of the KM's done.
i know when i got my current car, it had done 260k.. all my mates were liek dont get it its done to many kms, thing is the person who owned it last lived in horsham, and drove to melbourne 3 times a week.. so that is roughly 2000kms a week, on freeway.
ive done 40000kms in it my self over a year and a half, and not one major problem.
i have mates who have bought cars that have done 150k and needed new engines, g/box's, suspension etc, as they bought it purly by what the odometer said, not by how it actualy drove..
that is SOOOOOO of topic, sorry..
but any way..
i was in your situation, pretty much this time last year..
I do 70kms each way to uni, i work PT and earn 25kish, was 19, had 10k saved up, and was going to spend 20k on a 03 wrx wagon.
i was so keen to do so, i had even been to banks getting all my options on a loan, taken my money out of my long term savings account, and ready to spend.
Then i was talked out of it, a car that new, in 5 years time, (when i was going to pay the loan off), would probaly be worth 15k market, plus i would have done ALOT of kms in it (1000k ish a week), so would probaly strugle to get 12k for it... plus the extra 3-4k in intrest i would have spent on the loan (or what ever it was).. i would have came down almost 10grand, in 5 years.... which is a fair bit of money when you think about it. on a small wage. when you already have a perfectly working car.
i now have double what i had at the time saved up, i earn enough interest to make owning my car pretty much free, it pays my rego, insurance and maintence cost's. When i finish uni, and start a full time job (or what ever i do), i know i will have enough money saved up to put a deposit on a house if that what i decide to do... and then i can look at getting a nice car, once the more important things in life are sorted out.
i will admit, having mates who work full time, qualified tradeys, on their 60k+ a year, driving around in their nice cars, makes me want to go out and buy one. but i know, in the long run it is better not to.