My wife and I brought a used car sight unseen (PPI) 1200 miles back from Charlotte, NC this past fall. Fun adventure through the Blue Ridge Mountains, fantastic BBQ and eventually snow in WI/MN

The difference between an extraordinary classic car and a piece of paper investment... lots of $$$ apparently. 

I don’t think I could stay interested in a single car for a million miles.

I include the M2 because of the 1M’s trajectory

My girlfriend at the time rented me a GT-R for my 24th birthday - all drivers (myself, wife and 2 friends) deserve hefty tickets for our time in that car. Incredible machine, and the price is extremely fair given the experience.

There are only a few truly wise cars to buy, and one of them is the Toyota Corolla.

He oughtta get a Prius, just to complete the whole yin/yang thing.

Purchased in fall 2018. Spent 10 years renting in below market lower quality San Francisco Bay Area housing, uprooted and moved to Minneapolis where housing prices are reasonable and purchased a modest home. Zero chance of doing that in California. 

Helps to have low expectations, early adopters heaping on praise.

Not saying it’s not, or that small cars shouldn’t have style, but it’s tighter confines than a Mazda 3 hatch for a higher price. If you prefer the style or need the higher H-point, great, but the 3 hatch (or a CX-5) is probably the better choice for most.

We were able to knock $3.5K off a custom order BMW 228i. In fact it ended up being $4.5K after a dealer mistake meant our car showed up automatic instead of manual. Still a great experience, never hurts to ask for a discount!

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They’re about as common as Honda Civics in Beverly Hills dude, let alone SoCal lol. I see one at least twice a week in San Diego.

Not sidelining anything yet. Always eager to see what the M division has in store for the next generation. Maybe they will listen to us eventually and have something compelling to hop into for ~1/2-2/3 the price of a new 911.

All DI’s tick. The MZR in my mazdaspeed3 is obnoxiously loud. It’s especially bad when you have to convince a dealer that the “other” tick is part of the SSP covering my broken timing chain tensioner. I argued with the service manager for 15 minutes until a tech interrupted and backed me up.

DI tick is real, but I don’t think thats what’s going on here...purely based on the pattern.

Well I know what version I’d buy.

I don’t really understand why the engineer would say something so counter to what reality appears to be