We’re considering this to replace my wife’s A3. She really wants to get good a driving stick, (works in the industry.) Hondas/Acuras have great manuals, its a great looking car, and I think it’d check the boxes for us for a couple of years.

My only complain, no hand brake! Really kills the winter hooning.

We’re considering this to replace my wife’s A3. She really wants to get good a driving stick, (works in the industry.) Hondas/Acuras have great manuals, its a great looking car, and I think it’d check the boxes for us for a couple of years. 

If you pay the statement balance off you never pay any interest. You don’t have to pay the card to absolute zero to avoid interest, that’s a common misconception.

I had a teacher in Middle School who couldn’t get approved to buy an $80,000 cottage, on a $60,000 a year salary. He had inherited his parents house young, always bought cars cash etc. He was in his 50s, lots of money in the bank, but had no solid credit history. It kind of sucks that paying cash penalizes you, but it…

I would hope people are paying way more than the minimum payment.

The average daily balance only really matters if you get over a certain percentage of your credit used. If you are using it for everything to rack up airline miles, then yes pay it off twice a month, (unless you have really high limits.) If you are just…

I would hope people are paying way more than the minimum payment.

The average daily balance only really matters if you get over a certain percentage of your credit used. If you are using it for everything to rack up airline miles, then yes pay it off twice a month, (unless you have really high limits.) If you are just…

If you’ve really been paying cash for all of your previous vehicles you were hurting yourself when it comes to repairing your credit. You need to use your credit (responsibly) in order to improve it. I would have suggested you take out loans on some of the smaller (price wise) vehicles you have purchased previously,…

I could stack my wife’s A3 on top my F150 and it would weigh less than the Hummer EV.

Every safety system on earth can’t overcome physics. 

The steering wheel controls that are universally hated, (although the infotainment haptic is hated too.) Haptic buttons in a car are just dumb.

Does the new Golf R have those haptic buttons like the new GTI? If so, I’ll take anything over that. 

Our driveway is more boring these days:

That makes sense then. I’ve read about some cruise ships where they retrofitted them like condos, so you’d have your own kitchen.

Have you been on a decent cruise ship? I’d put the dinners on par with $50+ steaks I’d get at a steakhouse in Chicago, Detroit, Toronto, etc. The food can be really solid. (Not talking the buffets.)

Very sound, rational argument.

Definitely not $80k. A Macan S starts at like $55k, an X3 M40i about $58k. Even with the crazy used marked you can get either for about $40k a couple of years old. A more “normal” example would be a Forester XT, CX-5 turbo, etc.

A lot of people hate on cross overs not realizing they are really just wagons (that the same people love) with a slight lift. Porsche doesn’t make a small sedan or wagon, but they do make the Macan. Lower it a bit and what does it look like?

Many crossovers today don’t sit any higher than cars did not long ago, they just have higher roof lines and belt lines.
Many crossovers actually are spacious.
I’m guessing you’ve never driven a Macan, x3 M40i, or any other truly sporty crossover, they can actually be a really good time down a back road. A set of H&R…

I went from a small SUV to an F150, and lost exactly zero highway MPG, and 1 mpg in the city.

3 peak snow rating really isn’t that trustworthy. That test only measures acceleration on medium packed snow. It does not measure braking or turning on snow, nor acceleration, braking or turning on ice. I know people who have had 3 peak tires on the same F150 I have, and it didn’t stop nearly as well.