Nice! Does it recommend synthetic oil or is standard oil just fine?

This is the best version of ‘camping’.

True, but I don’t have a loan to pay out if the car goes up in smoke. 

Assets don’t depreciate less or require less physical upkeep just because you own them outright.

It is completely plausible that someone has a loan that is effectively 50% underwater. That’s basically the entire problem with the auto market and its associated financing right now.

My guess is that she didn’t have GAP coverage, which is an expensive lesson. I can easily see a Kia like this losing half of the sales-price. Especially if the purchaser rolled-in some upside-down debt from a trade-in.

You’re going to have depreciation and pay for maintenance whether you have a loan or not.

I think you’re underestimating the willingness of Americans to take on large sums of debt.

I’ll never ever finance another car in my life. There are too many reliable used cars for cheap that will hold value. Financing a car is a gamble. Even with great credit, the desire to finance a 0% interest car still costs money in depreciation and maintenance. 

Why is that hard to believe? 60 month term with high interest rate, compared with a few years of depreciation, and yeah, the balance on the loan could be worth double the current value (not original value) of the car.

GOD DAMN! World War II Soon!

Name checks out

Someone told her not to worry about the car catching fire since she’d be underwater on her loan.

Agreed. That’s an expensive lesson to learn. 

Gap insurance next time?

No thanks, It’s Garbage.

you haven’t been paying attention, there is no satire here.

She has the right to her opinions, just like anyone else here.

I would never own a full-sized pickup(except for maybe a SRT10), but warning bells go off when someone starts opining on what everyone else should drive. I can see similar arguments made against V8 ponycars- two inefficient, too big, too powerful, etc. My overriding vehicular ownership philosophy is: What car or…

I had forgotten about the Virage so completely that when I scanned the headline, I read it as “Vantage”. So forgotten is the Virage that in my mind there was only one Aston Martin model that began with ‘V’ and ended in ‘AGE’.