For the money, the JD2 is hard to beat. We used one for years and it's very repeatable. DO pay the extra for hydraulics. The hand bender will kill you. Want to step up to a really "nice" top of the line bender, look into a "Tube Shark". This is a really good bender for repeatable if you are building multiples of anything. Probably too costly for one time car bender, but it is a really nice one. Love mine............BUT a JD2 is a grand or so with one set of dies and a Tube Shark is 3K. If you go JD2, opt for the 180 dies