Ugh, I’m sorry. The biggest disadvantage to mine is boredom...and getting stuck behind a normal person when trying to merge onto the interstate, it’s a super fun S-curve that can easily be taken at 80, if not higher.

Fair enough.

Poor people got poor ways.

STFU, it’s not a slideshow!  Can’t we be happy for once?!

I lol’d.  Nice work.

I tend to replace my shocks/struts around 100k...just seems to be when they’ve had it. My last car was sold at 200k, replacement KYBs still worked fine and I hadn’t replaced a single other front-end component.

On car - pretty much anything? It’s fairly rare that spending less is worth the savings. Mid-level parts are generally the sweet spot, but I always avoid the “economy” tier on RockAuto. Some things seem worth spending more...quality rebuilt alternators/starters, steering boxes, water pumps.

Lol.  It helps that my commute’s great for efficiency - flat, few stops, half interstate and half divided highway.  But I also plop my ass in the right lane and put the cruise on at the speed limit.

That’s a good story.

The automatic’s a great transmission. It has a small torque converter coupled with a clutch, which locks up in 1st and stays that way.  The ‘manual’ mode works pretty well, too.  Ours is a Touring and didn’t come with shift paddles...my wife never cared, but I have parts in hand for adding those.

Ours is at 98k. Only problems have been some front end clunks, covered under warranty through a couple of TSBs.

I vote Mazda3. Our ‘14 has been good to us, it’s a great little commuter and fun to boot. I wouldn’t hesitate to buy another. It’s now my DD and I’m returning 41.5 mpg, but before that it was always around 35.

As long as you replace the brake lines.

You forgot the fact that 90% of them are missing their entire outer rocker panels.

I don’t see how they couldn’t have missed those problems. There are other pics in that thread that look even worse. Unless the supplier sent cherry-picked, touched-up parts....which never happens, right?

Moral of the story - buy tons of expensive shit (that mostly holds its value) before getting married.

Hence the “you all”....wasn’t directed squarely at you.

Right, but you test the hell out of prototype parts and then go through further approvals for ones made on production tooling, aka PPAP.

So everyone’s wrong then, is that what you’re saying?

Let me guess, you all have kids.