"I understand women now."

Yeah, I think every teenager does something like that. Eventually though when your ears are bleeding from the drone you get tired of it ;)

That was one of the first things I did for the wife's BRZ was exhaust. The sound really is an issue. Cars "feel" a lot faster when they are more aggressive/loud sounding.

Yes, and the people who really want to use the cars thank you for it. That's how the sports car ecosystem works. I would argue that the general "performance car" category is a bit overly broad in this discussion, but so far it still holds true.

Yeah, that happens. Cars are valued of a standard book, so if they go by the book or over incentivise a trade, then the manufacturer offers incentives of their own on new, they can end up not being able to sell the car they took on trade for less than a new one because of the required pricing for overhead.

The real issue is to simply not over pay in whatever method you purchase the car. Based on these prices I would have to assume you are comparing a used car price at another dealer to a new car price with incentives (or at least the automatic rebates). This is certainly possible. Dealers mark value based on the market…

I'm not too excited unless they are also getting rid of the people currently in charge of the Z design and development. The 350Z should have resulted in heads rolling and the 370Z was more or less an incremental improvement over the 350Z. Neither car was truly deserving of the Z badge in my mind.

You didn't address the key... if you buy a new vehicle, you are paying more in interest than a used vehicle because the total balance is lower.

The same people who finance through the mob? Why are you getting hung up where the theoretical person financed through? The discussion is new vs used and one of the negatives I had was based on the increased expenditure due to increased finance value of a new vehicle... not where and how you finance. I'm just giving…

What are you talking about, this is a discussion of new vs used, not cash up front vs lending.

Have you actually bought a vehicle for one of these rates to find out how much you had to put down? Even if you get the magic rate, you are losing several thousand dollars for every $40,000 even at 1.9%. That's an entire project car in just interest, and gaining? Nothing. You gain nothing other than to say the car was…

I hate buying new. All I can think the whole time I'm driving the car is that I just got crushed by instant depreciation and will be bleeding interest for the duration of the loan. If I pay cash up front I feel like a sucker for having capital tied up in a massively depreciating "asset" that I then can't have fun with…

That's why there are so many new laws about not letting people dig themselves such deep holes. A Dart will will worth almost nothing on trade, so there will be a serious balloon roll over involved. I'm sure it will have SOME value, but I have seen dealers value even 4 year old cars at 1/10th the original value, then…

The problem with the balloon is that even if you trade in, you are still due for the money. All you are doing is rolling it into a new vehicle. So say you buy a Mustang for $30,000 after all the fees and such, then they would roll the $6,000 into it (assuming you only owed $6,000 balloon and no payments), making the…

How slow should one go then? From an engineering and physics stand point you would have to reduce the entire road system to a speed slow enough to compensate for nearly every driver that judges distance poorly... which would be somewhere around 30 feet of stopping distance. To have a 30 ft stopping distance everyone…

It's a 73. I am dropping an SR20DET in it and did full paint from bare metal.

Yep, that's why on my last Z build I bought one low rust and undercoated the entire car... as well as powder coating everything else. All cars from before the 90s rust like crazy.

Nope. I just will only ever buy RWD or AWD German cars.

This is 100% my philosophy. I have had some close calls that were avoided only because my cars were well setup, not on cheap economy tires, and I was on the ball. For whatever reason, two of them were in my MR2. I don't know if people just wanted to kill it or what, but they failed.

See that's what worries me most about this. This person probably thinks they are a good driver because they didn't hit anyone... terrifying.