I’ve had friends that racked up ~$30k+ in credit card bills and ~$40-50k in car loans. They rolled everything into refinance on their house, paid off all of their debt, and guess where they were 3-4 years later? Another $20k+ in credit card debt....

That $529 becomes $750 if you don’t put down the $4999 at signing they suggest.

Why only until recently?

Those were the first handful of decent-looking cars that I could find.

My last round of cross shopping included a 981 Boxster, MX-5 ND, Chevy Volt, Wrangler, and a Jag XE. My non-car friends thought I was nuts.

My plan until recently was to have one decent and fun car that could cover 90% of all the duties needed, and then one fun/project car that was really cheap.

I’ve developed the same habit and the thing is, it can be cheap depending on your choice and taste of cars. In the past five years, I’ve owned the following cars:

I’m with you on this. I’ve owned on the upside of 30 or so cars from cheap shitboxes to high end performance stuff. I am really strange with cars too. I feel like I’m wasting my time on vehicles that aren’t significantly good, like better than most, at their designed task. AMG’s to superduty pickups, classic sports…

Fucking hell this story is depressing. Here’s what I would do personally. I wouldn’t commit insurance fraud (have you seen what a lawyer would cost?), and I wouldn’t do a HELOC (great way to lose your house). No, I’d fucking suck it up, sell the truck for as much as I could (or negotiate with the loan company to…

Start a dealership

And gone already.

What in the world is going on with those weird rear doors?

I’ve had dreams of owning an Evo for a very long time, specifically before the X makeover. But every time I go browsing I find thrashed cars with poorly installed bits hanging off every corner. And they’re still priced as if they’re new, regardless of age.

So now the dream isn’t buying one so much as rescuing one.

Spotted two weeks ago. Even factory wheels

BRUH. A Civic DX isn’t performance oriented., yet 1000% of them had fart cans and colored radiator hoses under the hood. Which spread to every other Civic competitor (Sentras, Corollas), none of which had performance oriented versions.

On the domestic side, gotta nominate the Neon SRT-4. At one point a few years ago, I thought an SRT-4 could be cheap thrills and started looking for one. Then I realized they were all horribly modified and beat on. All of them.

It’s hard enough just to find a picture of a stock one, let alone find out out in the wild.

I hope this doesnt mean hes not sending my money.

No. 2.0T Premium (LSD, Magnetic Suspension). Lovely car though. It’s really grown on me over time, it’s just a fun, eager, lively daily driver.