That’s actually a similar approach that I’ve taken lately, buying high mileage so it doesn’t matter if I make it any higher. Unfortunately, with a 4 and 6 year old at home the maintenance required on those higher mileage cars has proven a bit of a barrier. I’m hoping the e91 I bought with 108k miles is a happy middle g…

I wish I could be this guy or gal...but I just can’t shake the value part of car ownership from my mind. Every time I buy a car I care about (current e46 M3) I get worried about putting too many miles on it. Even when I try to force myself to buy a car I don’t care as much about (current e91 328xi wagon) I start doing…

Biased answer, but an e46 M3 convertible (with the true 6 speed manual, of course). Not much beats top-down driving when it comes to peering up into the tree canopy, and the M3 can do it at a leisurely pace until that gets boring, then turn it all into a blur of wonderful colors. 

Between the new-old Jaguars commissioned in the story yesterday and this, I’m stoked to see people at least doing something interesting with their money (if not totally wasteful). These are infinitely better than hypercars that won’t be driven at 1/10th of their potential and old Ferraris that will be bought and stuck…

I mean, that’s all well and good for dealers trying to maximize their profit I suppose. But there are still people on their who are just plain ol’ selling their car.

New car? Acura Integra Type-S. Fun, good but understated design, and lots of heritage to pull from for decades to come.

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Gah! You’re lucky. The dealer I was trying to work with is owned by the same parent company I work at so I thought I had a good “in.” I was speaking with one of their guys for a while and as soon as they got their allotment, but before they were on the dealer lot, they were asking a minimum of $5,000 over MSRP. The…

As someone who just bought (and promptly sold) a used Subaru I can’t see any of the “performance” models being a good value. The reliability (or lack there of) on those engines was terrifying.

I’m arguably the target audience, but I just can’t get behind the id.Buzz. The pricing is so incredibly off-putting, as well as the attitude towards the vehicle from dealers. It’s clear they are planning to do whatever the heck they can to drive up the price of these and cash-grab while they can. Price aside, that…

Back during COVID I was trying to sell my e39 M5 and while I wasn’t particularly worried about COVID, I was trying to be somewhat smart about it (I had a 2 year old and 8-month old at home at the time). I was asking the high end of fair market value for an M5 at the time and not in a real rush to sell. After a month…

I agree with the German luxury car comment, but I’d actually take it back a few years to the late 00's early 10's and specifically say the 328/528i/xi BMW. You need to tread carefully as half the cars have been bought and turned into wannabe M3 or drift toys, but if you can find one which was just driven as a car you…

Not when you live in the mountains on a windy road mate.

Having spent significant time “in the rest of the world” I can tell you that they have the infrastructure that allows for the lack of big trucks. The materials available, delivery available, etc. make owning a large truck unnecessary.

42k as a CPO from the GMC dealer, owned by one of their mechanics. And while I don’t need a big truck every month, I do need a truck every month (hay for the goats, hauling our 110lb dogs around, etc.) Also, have you ever returned a rental truck with cement dust filling the bed? I bet they wouldn’t be stoked.

Yes, I am aware of different options for truck bed length. I was simply trying to apples-to-apples my short bed to the Colorado short bed. Sorry. But the 10" narrower and lesser payloads still apply.

Um, well the author did “No one needs a truck as big as the Silverado...”

I don’t know where you live but at least where I live there are plenty of people actually using trucks, certainly more than the handful of NASA astronauts in your example. But no, not as many as the people who are using them to go to the grocery…

2018 Colorado bed length: 5'1". 2018 Sierra bed length: 5'10". With the tailgate down you can carry 12' lumber in a sierra, I wouldn’t try it with a Colorado. The Colorado is also 10" narrower. But luckily, I have this thing called a lumber rack which is super useful.

Color me surprised to see another SN-95 Mustang here, but still worth mentioning. My first car was a 1998 Mustang GT with an automatic. That car, by most any measurement, was not a great car. But holy spicoli did High School me love that car. Brake stand burnouts, “drifting,” backroad shenanigans, it did it all and…

Valid callout since I didn’t explicitly explain this. Having had a TJ, a 2-door Jeep is just especially impractical on the road. I do have kids, and getting them in and out of the back was a nightmare. More problematic, however, was that I could barely carry anything in it. Maybe it’s just me, but the only redeeming…