...after all bills and mortgage? we are a family of 4 and have about 1750 left a month after all our bills and mortgage. we were thinking of getting something cheap and less expensive on gas. right now we have a 97 ford explorer v8 and its braking down we have put around $500 in it just since october. we have no car payments which is nice and are afraid to have one. we just bought our house in may and don't want to be in a bad situation. when i look at the numbers it seems like it should be doable to have a payment of around $300 but my husband disagrees. We desperately need two cars and i see it as our only option. do you think we would be ok when we have about 439 left a week and if we had a car payment of around 300 a week we would still have around 350 left per week.