I find the silver color on the 918 quite boring.

They don't support it, it's actually against the safety rulebook. My sister in law works for NASCAR's PR team, she said Ward was breaking official rules by getting out of his car. However there's no official punishment for getting out of the car as these instances had always been handled on a case by case basis to…

1) Who wants to switch cars 10 times in one year?

Because any single overriding objective is ludicrously overrated. There are very obviously "bad" debts that you should avoid. There are certainly plenty of available automotive loans that you could get which fall into the "bad" category, where on the face of it you are getting hosed and should run not walk away. …

I like how you guys are talking about having $20k and $40k and I'm just here like "Oh cool, I can afford gas today."

I love working on cars, but I work a minimum of 50 hour a week, help raise two small children and maintain a 120 year old house. I don't have time to fix a $3000 POS every week so it can handle my 500 mile/week commute.

if "fiscal responsibility" was at the top of my list of priorities, I wouldn't buy a car at all. I'd move within walking distance of work and rent/borrow/zipcar if I needed to.

This is a tough one to translate and / or purport. I mean, I understand from your side - I feel the same way. No debt (I don't count mortgage, amusingly), spend within your means, take care of your cars and work your way up over time, etc. (Also in my case, refuse to have children...my own personal flavor on the…

The impetus for this post was, i guess, people complaining that the new Merc C63 AMG is underpowered at 500+. It's hard to understand just how that much power makes you feel like the whole world it turned against you.

4) But there is an inherent value that we place in things. This expense is worth the cash it costs me. This is just my subjective opinion. I'd like a bunch of things to be free (or close to it) but many of them are "worth it" when push-comes-to-shove. Wrapped into this is safety. New cars are generally safer than…

There's no used car factory though. You're not buying a Fiesta, you're buying a Fiesta driven by X or Y person for 30,000 miles which you know little about. You can limit your risks in this transaction, but even that require a number of search costs. For a lot of people out there, not having to buy a used car is…

No, being happy means doing what you want, when you want and not waiting for someone else to get tired of their toy so you can buy it and hope it has the features and options you want and it wasn't hooned. Money is just a thing, you can't take it with you when you die, and as long as you are not spending wildly above…

But while you're straight-saving for your $20,000 car you have no car. And money sitting in a savings account is decreasing in value thanks to inflation and today's shit interest rates. You might make it work if you're investing it, but that's another debate.

Well, I pay interest on each payment, not tax, but that's still less than the opportunity cost of all the time spent maintaining a much older car. I'm just saying that my time is more valuable than the cost to finance.

Whenever someone says cars arent a good investment I want to smack them in the head. No shit. That's why Im at a car dealer, not Charles Schwab. Guess what my 401k cant do? Get me to work, or the grocery store, or anywhere else for that matter. I cant autorcoss a savings account. Cant go for a Sunday morning…

There is the factor of usage. It doesn't get rid of the used car is a better value, but for the depreciation and all that stuff. Look at it like this- I bought a car for $25k. I paid $27k over the life of the loan. it's worth $11.5k after 5 years. but in the 5 years it allowed me to get to work where I now earn…

I don't disagree with the sentiment that buying a used car is, in many ways, more financially responsible than buying a new car.

That whole scene confused the shit out of me. Hell, the whole program confused the shit out of me.

Don't even get me started on the Lamborghini engine soundtrack, the pop off roof, being able to crawl down onto the landing gear from the inside of the plane, finding an ethernet cord long enough on a plane to go from the "server" (Ha!) through the landing gear well and to the ground, the plane being even remotely…