How long did it took you to buy your first car?

Did your parents paid?

What car and year?

I'm 19 years old, and I want to buy a Camry 2007 SE/LE, but when I checked the prices, it was blazing over 19k! That's ridiculously expensive for a used car, but it does look magnificent in condition.

However, when I see the 2005 (there's a huge difference of 2005 and 2007) for XLE, it was 12.5K, which is like 4.5K lesser from 2007 model, and it had tons of stuff in it (because it's luxury type), so it's logically better to get this car.

Although I'm young, I don't have a lot of money, and wondering if I'm able to pay for it. I work as a legal assistant in a law firm for a private practioner, but this is only for the summer time (4 months) and I earn a bit over 2.3k a month, the previous job still needs to pay me a couple of hundreds worth of paid hours and I'm getting just about $140 extra from selling tickets for a convention.

I might have to wait for a bit and get about 6.9k and put it as a down payment, and hopefully get my parents to help out... in the end.. but i really want to pay the whole thing myself... and I want a car asap!! This is sooo annoying T__T;;;

What's your story??