Get it 5 years or so used and the depreciation is already factored in. Later models have better reliability

A used but slightly newer (2015 on) MINI is a good choice: better reliability and the depreciation hit is already taken mostly. 

I call my Mk7 GTI “the great equalizer,” because it’s the car I like to drive to any enthusiast car test drive. It makes a lot of other cars seem tame or dull. The only cars to humble the GTI so far are a Lotus Evora S and the new Supra.

Get one now while they’re underappreciated and still plenty out there with low miles....

Fantastic ride.  I agree, if only they’d put the the 2.0 in these, they would’ve had major enthusiast sales.

Well, fwiw the hill assist only holds for a few seconds, then releases, so...

The comment section is literally dripping with owners and fans. Definitely make me think the Mk7 is a future collector car. My ‘17 SE manual is literally one of the best cars I’ve ever owned. Love the flat bottom steering wheel. The interior is fantastically designed. Love the illuminated red accent lines running…

It’s pathetic, but what can we do?

COTD

And when the author looked at the chaos she had sown, she was pleased. A complete and total Jalopnik reader barf-o-rama

spend about 50% of their time on the internet

I just thought all of the gas pumpers were picked off over the years.  Die gas pumper!

A fox mustang was the car that got me into the car hobby and the car I wanted the most that I didn’t get to have as a teenager. Granted this ‘91 needed some minor work, had 120k miles, and was a slushbox, but this is a sad reminder that these used to be cheap—I think I paid $2600 for this one; that was a decade ago.

I sold a 40k mile vehicle to Carvana last year for $9k more than I paid for it new. Granted, it was an FJ Cruiser, a vehicle that has seemingly denied car depreciation gravity, and used cars were surging with the pandemic premium going on, and I bought it new at a good price, but still...

You will leave with a Nissan Rouge instead.

...is emblematic of why I’m not subscribing to the newsletter

Drug smuggling from a Muncie girl guy?!

I don’t know about bublefuck, but in bumblefuck, kentucky they drink RC, not Coke anyway.  Goes well with Moon Pies.

Well, if you could do the NYC-Kentucky overnight delivery in the Postal Truck, then buy 200 cases of Coke, then bring them back to NYC and sell them,.... it just might work!!

What did you think of the Velost-N experience? Reviews make it seem like they’re the best budget performer of all these days.