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The p72 looks good. The P4/5 looks terrible.

This looks good, the P4/5, not so much.  That car gives me a really strong ‘kit-car’ feeling every time I look at it.  It just doesn’t mix the giant swaths of flat space with curves very well.

I’ve always found that weird. Aftermarket, manuals have always been worth substantially more than autos (for sport/super cars, anyway), even in the early/mid 2000s. And many of them were sold to people who just shut them up in a garage for most of the year.

You can make a traditionally powered car lightweight. You can’t do that with batteries.

I asked this question because I wondered where living costs were that high, aside from the most expensive places in the country, NY and CA. The responses I got suggested that it probably is just those two places.

Why (should, not would) anyone buy one instead of an XF sportbrake?

Blue book prices often have little to nothing to do with actual sale prices in a given area. Of the three cars I’ve bought in the last several years, all were more than 25% away from the kbb/edmunds/whatever estimates in one direction or another.

You’re (generally speaking) being paid for 8 hours of working, not for 8 hours worth of work. There is an argument that you should leave and find someone that pays you better, but I realize that’s often an impossibility. Many fields have next to no variation in salary, no matter how good or bad you are at your job.

Agreed. So many companies are strongly against working from home. Yes, people exploit it, but you fire those people.

To some extent, I’ll agree, it depends on the job.

Any modern ‘boring’ car will easily last 15 years is I guess a better way to phrase that.

If you can devote $600 a month to car payments, you can afford a $50k car. Pay off your car, save the $7200 a year for seven or eight years, buy a $50k car with cash. Almost no modern car will have trouble lasting fifteen years from new.

Kids, there’s your problem. Basically multiplying expenses by three (space, food, whatever) without increasing income.

I don’t know.  The NA looks bad, the NC looks terrible.  Yes, the NA is probably a better driver and the NC a better built car, but the NB looks better, and for ‘classic’ cars, that’s a really important attribute, much more so than performance since classics can’t compete with anything modern anyway.

This statement baffles me. Where do you live where $10k isn’t an insane amount of extra money every month?

$225k is about five times the average salary in all of the country aside from NY/CA. It is absolutely enough for a $100k second car and then some.

To be fair, it was a flat 4 turbo.

The price isn’t bad, just a bit high given that LHD FDs command a significant price premium. You can buy a pristine RHD FD for about $30k. If the bodykit is actually that rare and something you want, this isn’t a terrible deal. Body work is expensive, quality body work is insanely expensive.

If you park your car or motorcycle on the sidewalk, you get a ticket.

All of those problems also apply to a rented scooter. That’s kind of the point.