re: thoughts on down payment for new car

I drive a used car paid for in cash also, but I don't think there is anything wrong with financing a car as long as you could easily liquidate something and pay it off if the need arose without digging into a retirement acct or something like that.

For example If I have 50k to spend on a car why should I pay cash when I can finance it out over 5 years and put that 50k to work with a reasonable amount of risk in something I can easily liquidate as the need arises.