Congratulations on your new job! As regional manager for Franklin Industries you will be responsible for visiting Franklin dealers far and wide. We're talking a good 30k to 40k miles of pure American asphalt a year.

Your salary is top notch and with a wide assortment of other benefits (free membership to the Y!) comes the ultimate shangri-la for any road warrior.

A free travel card courtesy of Mr. Franklin. Your gas and maintenance are free. Food budget is a whopping $45 a day.  Entertainment is… well… the open road. However the company will fork over a healthy $500 a year for whatever gadgets you want for your road trips. Sirius or XM. Radar detector or Android phone. That decision is yours alone.

There is one down side to this transaction: your car budget. The company will only provide a $5000 budget for your future ride. You can get whatever you want within reason, and the car is yours to keep of course. However Franklin 's accountants, penny pinching bastards they are,  expect that your car will last four years on the road. No new wheels until 2016!

So what will be your next car?  You can have anything that is priced at $5000 or less at Edmunds or KBB  'private party' value. Oh before I forget. No exotics. No grey market. Nothing too Yugoslavian or French. You don't want your first day of work to be with nosy accountants and your immediate boss.