The 4Runner is “not bad” to drive on the road. That doesn’t make it “good” to drive on the road, and it doesn’t change the fact that it’s heavy, doesn’t have nearly as good road manners as its unibody competitors, and again, gets 17mpg rated. And man, you have a real inferiority complex if the modifications above are…

Which goes back to my original reply. I’m not talking about serious offroading, to the extent that you’re hitting up named trails at Sand Hollow or Ouray or Moab, which is offroading for the sake of offroading. Most people buy a 4Runner because they want it for inclement weather, or their justification is getting to…

Okay, you might get 19mpg in your 4Runner with your driving, but it’s rated at 17mpg. Which means that in an Outback, you might get 33mpg or more, if we’re comparing apples to apples and applying your particular situation to both sides of the argument. The Ourback has essentially the same clearance as the 4Runner. It…

I take issue with you calling a combined 26mpg or 29mpg combined, depending on the engine choice, as “average” for a vehicle with the capability of an Outback. AWD, good clearance, tons of storage, etc. As long as you’re not an avid offroader or rock crawler, you now have a 25mpg vehicle that meets your slightly…

Sorry, but I see nothing wrong with this. More people should embrace buying realistic offroad vehicles, ones that fit their needs. No, you don’t need at minimum a 4Runner TRD Pro because you like to hike, and all of the trailheads that you get to are right off of a main highway where there are freaking Honda Fits in…

Gallardo is awd, most likely. It came in both configurations.

You’re just going in circles, I think I broke you. First, you don’t know when a catastrophic failure will occur. 2nd, major services are so much cheaper than the depreciation in your chart. So your solution is to sell the car when it finally stops depreciating. You would be throwing away potential years of trouble…

Yup, keep trying with your shitty ad hominem attacks just because you’re a dumb shit with the logical reasoning of a wet paper bag. 8 year old cars do NOT have high risk of repairs, that’s not even 2/3 the age of the average vehicle on the road, which is 13 years right now. And once they get older, being afraid of…

Man, you are just a car salesperson’s wet dream. I could take a 2013 Civic, top trim EX-L, fully loaded, and in legit showroom condition, and it wouldn’t even be worth $9,500 trade-in today. The reality is that most 2013 Civics, the average trade-in value is under $8,000. No one is going to walk in and pay asking…

So by your logic, if I pay cash, then I will always immediately have maximum equity. So then, I should trade in every year? Or hell, every 6 months?

You’re missing the point. They’re both the same car. How long it takes me to pay off the car doesn’t have any effect on the resale value.

A major service isn’t the same thing as a catastrophic failure, first of all. 2nd of all, even with a major service. If I was the owner of a 10 year old Accord that needed a timing belt service, for example. That timing belt/water pump/hoses would be significantly cheaper and would give the car another 10 years of…

You are incorrect. Depreciation is more expensive. The exception that proves the rule would be if you bought a 15 year old Jaguar or Land Rover. Or, if you don’t do your homework and buy a salvage title, flooded, poorly maintained vehicle with tons of obviously deferred maintenance.

Yes, the longer you keep it, the less it is worth. But depreciation is exponential. Compared to how long I’ve already owned the car, tomorrow is when it finally STOPS depreciating. That is always true, and it’s the definition of exponential. You also used a poor example. A 6 year old Civic is NOT worth 55% of what a…

Oh, of courseeeee! Right before that catastrophic failure! And if you can magically tell when this catastrophic failure will occur, then how are you not a trillioniare if you can see the future? If you know things like when something unexpected and catastrophic is about to happen, you have enough money to buy a new…

But for years 6 and 7, depreciation has finally leveled off. So even if you pay in cash, it makes more financial sense to hold onto it for 7 years.

There’s no such thing as “a good amount of value”. Cars depreciate exponentially. Tomorrow my car will depreciate less than it did today. When looking at an exponential curve, once you buy a car, it doesn’t make sense to EVER sell it. Especially since there are transaction costs like taxes and other fees involved in…

Could you expand on this? It doesn't make any sense to me. So if I go buy a Civic on a 36 month loan because Honda is giving me 1.9%, and some credit criminal does a 72 month loan at 8%, from your advice it sounds like I should somehow only keep the car for 5 years, but that other buyer should keep it for 8 years. Why…

lol you clearly have no clue about how a publicly traded company works, or even the most fundamental idea about how the market works. You can’t hit those “quarterly goals” unless you’re making vehicles that people will come buy. If people were showing up in droves and buying all of the midsize rwd coupes, instead of…

Urban air quality in the US is not a concern like it is in Europe. The USA made the smart call considering particulate emissions, instead of just CO2 and mpg.