Does your wife happen to be Asian? Every Asian girl I’ve dated (from various countries) have all been the same, totally against financing anything. My wife is Japanese and I’m amazed I was able to get her to agree to a mortgage. Credit usage in Asian countries is very different than what we do in America I guess.

Yup, right there with you. My wife would say “Why a $50k car!? I don’t need that! My Kia is fine!” (yes, she really does have a Kia, a Soul EV). We can afford a $50k car easily, but for her anything lavish or luxurious is a waste of money since we have kids and that money could go into an investment account for their…

My first electric car.

Not true in the least bit, and it’s actually what pisses me off the most about the i3. I leased a 2014 i3 for two years and it was an excellent DD and around town car. Compared to cars like the Leaf, Fiat EV, e-Golf, etc, yes, it’s pretty quick. But what really gets to me is that my salesperson (sorry... “client…

One of the best things I’ve done for my health (blood pressure and resting heart rate went down) and sanity is to stop caring about getting there faster than anyone else. For the last few years I have just been minding my own business in the right lane. Not concerned about passing anyone, although I will make an…

Kristen Letty is way better looking than real Letty.

Washington state requires it too, and it’s pretty well enforced here. I’ve seen some people get away with it, but many more get ticketed for it. I think the justification here is for red light cameras and toll cameras.

Are you saying you don’t see a strong resemblance?

I did not base my whole financial future on anything. If the housing market crashes, we’ll still be fine due to my job’s retirement. We won’t be as well off obviously, but we’ll still be doing well.

Also, I read and comprehended your entire post (all of them in fact). I am far from the typical person, that is correct,…

Careful with assumptions. I am already over 35, and I have invested in several homes. My wife and I are in the process of building our dream home, and we have a few more homes financed that we rent out. The higher interest rate on those would cost us more money every single month, in the neighborhood of a thousand…

Credit score effects just about everything though. Sure, it won’t make a difference to some people, but for most of us it matters. You don’t have to go into huge amounts of debt or pay a dime of interest to get a good credit score. Nowadays if you have poor credit, your insurance rates are higher, you may not be able…

Being a cash economy is irrelevant in this situation though. In the world of financing/lending credit score is king, not cash. This simply attracts potential buyers with bad credit by helping them to offset some of that 10%+ interest they are going to be charged.

Have their been any studies published correlating credit scores to automotive brand? Or is the credit score of the applicant considered protected information? I’ve got some obvious biased guesses that I could make, but I would really like to see if Chrysler buyers (for example) have a lower average credit score than…

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If I wanted to stare at that front end I could do so for a lot less than $35k on my smartphone.

Going beyond the RWB kits, it’s not all about purists being old grumpy codgers, I think this current trend of riveting overfenders onto anything any everything simply isn’t going to age well.

I love these, when the JZX100 Chaser becomes legal I’m importing one. I love that they are under-appreciated, it means the value isn’t going to skyrocket like the Skylines and other popular JDM cars. So stop posting stories about these gems!

I’m not sure if it’s related, but it probably is...

I want to try to attend this next year if I can. I’ve just started restoring (restomodding) a decent example of my favorite 90's car, a red 1998 Mitsubishi Eclipse GST (yes I specifically chose the FWD model for my project). It was such a popular car back around when the first Fast & Furious came out, then seemingly…

I like how the guy covertly blames his bailing out on his wife. “Oh she pulled me out of the car.” I call BS on that.

“Better” in a subjective way? Probably not to most enthusiasts. However “better” objectively? It absolutely is, in every way.