or maybe Mitsubishi’s boring AF cvt just navigates sub 5mph speed better than other brands. I coast a lot at sub 5mph, it just involves not being directly up someones a-hole. Additionally when an interstate’s speed limit is 90 and cars are going sub 30, that’s still traffic, maybe not LA 404 level traffic, but it’s…

800+ Credit score and a house that’s already been financed. the car being cash won’t make a difference

Just another reason to save up and buy the car cash. 

Banks also used to pay 6% interest in a SAVINGS account. These rates are high, because no one is earning money on what they’ve stashed away. If savings is 6% and interest is 9% the car is effectively 3%. But savings rates are like 1% at best, so interest rates being at 6% means the car is effectively 5% or 2% more…

yeah but as a counterpoint banks used to pay 6% interest on a savings account. No one cars about spending money when they’re making money. The issue in today’s market, with anything interest related, is that it’s basically slitting your wrist. Returns for your average cash is like 3% tops in a CD. versus interest…

you must not know how to coast. if you’re constantly braking in traffic you’re doing it wrong, whether you’re in a MT or Auto. The reason MT is worse for those conditions is due to trying to keep the dang car alive between awkward speeds. 

This! Took me 2.5 hours to go 26 miles once this winter. It forever killed me getting a manual transmission. as long as jobs are in cities, and cities are filled with horrible traffic and commutes then MT won’t be worth it. The only friends I have that argue about MT’s having improvements to be easier don’t deal with…

Look manual’s are cool and all but you know what’s not cool, dealing with 3-4 lanes of bumper to bumper traffic at 40mph on an interstate with peoples faces glued to their phones until they smash into someone. Given that most jobs are now in metros, and metros suck to drive in, people aren’t going to buy something,…

I workout 5 days a week and have for years. The issue isn’t an “in shape issue.” I’ve hated low cars since i was 16. 

Articles like this are why i don’t care that NY is a shit hole that’s falling apart. The smug attitude that drives this article is the exact reason everyone hates New York. No one is jealous, we all just think you’re a bunch of stuck up morons! P.S. NY pizza is shit! 

Yeah. The twin cities keep having congestion but the DOT has their heads so far up their butts they cant realize cloverleaf, looping, whatever you want to call them exits cause major slowdowns and not having public transport that runs suburb to suburb, which is where most of the work and works are in the cities is the…

That’s part of my calculation as well. there’s not a day on my commute where i don’t witness a crash. Luckily when i got rear ended it was a low MPH merge (10mph) so my bumper just got scuffed. but the other half is like why race to buy something, this thing will probably get totalled anyway haha.

I disagree. Just because a sports car might be uncomfortable doesn’t mean other cars are. Some people want race cars, some people want sports cars, some people want luxury with some oomf. That doesn’t make one particularly the right answer. If anything sales prove Sports/Race cars are not the answer given the majority…

Probably, but still not for me. That’s not to say i like crossovers, i hate crossovers. Ideally i’d want a wagon for my next car, but those are absurdly hard to find in the US, thus why i’m looking at vehicles like a TLX for the next venture. 

The plan is to get a used TLX eventually. And eventually is the near-ish future. I’ve just ran the numbers, given the low mileage of my car, the fact that it’s already hardly worth anything, and the mileage i’m currently driving per year, it still seems like it’s more worthwhile to short term spend a little money on…

If they were $21k i’d probably be jumping on one already. so far up here it’s $26k at all the “we don’t haggle metro dealers”

this “car” website spends more time posting about politics than cars. A better question is why are you so butthurt that people don’t like getting out of a car that sits 3" off the ground? I didn’t say sports cars blow, i said i prefer having an ankle that’s in tact more than i do with driving said car. 

This is why lifted wagons are taking off. And that’s been my argument against owning a sports car ever. Sure a Miata is fun, but you know what’s also fun, not feeling like my ankle is going to break when i try to stand up and out of a vehicle. 

This! The DOT needs to start focusing on regulating brightness of low beams. Freaking LED’s almost cause accidents daily because they’re brighter than high beams these days!

I agree with the spend what’s needed, not just to spend aspect. I really want an Acura TLX, and by car payment standards I can afford one. But on the flip side my somewhat boring Lancer only has 75k miles, no payments have been due on it for over a year, it just got brand new brakes, and it has AWD. Realistically, if…