Buying a new car is pretty exciting and in my experience, the excitement never gets old regardless of whether it is your very first car, or you 15th. I have learned through the years that it is very important that you strip the emotion out of buying a car if possible and focus on the cold, hard facts of functionality, affordability and practicality. To give you an example of the mistakes that you can make, a few years ago I bought myself a sports car, a two seated convertible. I actually went to the dealership with every intention of picking…