Filed under: Products and services, Consumer experience, Marketing and advertising, Personal finance(This is a picture of TV detective Columbo working on his famously noisy and unreliable car)Of course, that title was a trick. There is no good way to borrow money to buy a car. With everything except the purchase of a home, here's a good adage to live by: If you can't pay for it in cash, that means you can't afford it! Do you see how that works? You can't afford to get a car loan to buy a car because if you could, you could just pay for it in cash.The Boston Globe makes an excellent point about the dangers of car payments, but is a little bit less militant than I am: "First, use ...