Is this because of the large depreciation hit they expect to take on the car when it’s a few years old?

Big deal. I found half of a sleeping UAW worker under the 3rd row of my Traverse.

Turns out that regular ass air is still 78% nitrogen.

Plugs and wires. If your car doesn’t call for triple platinum-coated bare breasted 8 prong plugs and adamantium wires you don’t need to buy them. Standard plugs and wires will be just fine.

So much truth it hurts.

I don’t know how easy this is to do anymore with the recent interest rate rises, but I planned to cash buy a 2-year old car back in January 2016. When I shopped financing around, though, I found a credit union who offered 0.5% on a 66 month loan.

I’d go one higher on the next level adult, and suggest one not finance their next car. Keep saving up $400 a month until you can buy a used car outright, then consider replacement. (Even then, I suggest keeping your car until it’s cheaper to buy and maintain a new one.)

This. Chances are that your new-ish car is still fine and will continue to be fine for a while. We’re mostly past the era of terrible cars, and even the crappiest new car will get to 150k miles without too many issues.

Third Level: Pay cash for a 2-3 year old car.

Sir, your logic and reasoning has no place here. Begone!

The best way to fix an underwater loan is to learn from it, so it only happens once.

If any compnay on planet Earth has a Global Nope Department, it’s Ferrari

Maybe being a dude is a requirement now, too.

I am highly disappointed with Jalops that I had to scroll down this far to find a reference to NFS MW.

You can buy a GPS tracker that works with a cell network for about a hundred bucks. Lots of places to hide it in a street car, certainly long enough to find the car if you know it’s been taken relatively quickly. Race cars have fewer nooks and crannies, but they also have all kinds of weird boxes in them. One more…

no

No, you’ll be paying for that for the rest of your life.

They have been trying, but, just like any system that is exposed to sea water, corrosion will eventually destroy everything. All of the flooded tunnels that have exposed rebar, the steel linings in the concrete for the wiring to go through, switches, control boxes, etc will all need to be replaced. It would be…

I know they’re causing BROOKLYNOCALYPSE!!! by shutting down the L line for a while to repair damages from Sandy. Not sure what those repairs consist of, though

Replace “Hurricane” with “Strong Tropical Storm”. New York really can’t deal with Hurricanes, much less strong (> cat1) ones.