Nissan. Unsurprising. Rogue? Life imitates art.

Then maybe you should not comment on things you know very little about.

You must have a lot of time on your hands if you can bear dealing with unexpected minor and major issues on NEW cars. Reliability does matter. Time taken out of my day(s) to take a car to a dealer to get something fixed that shouldn’t have been a problem to begin with is a major inconvenience. I could be doing other…

3 Jeeps. Not surprising.

I’ve only been buying new for the last 4 or so years and I’ve either broken even or made a bit of money when trading or selling. Next car I’m buying is a new 718 Cayman S, and I’m looking forward to keeping it for 5 years and selling it for 86% of what I bought it for.

Insurance is trash until you have to use it.

Moral of the story here is that you should avoid literally anything and everything that Elon is backing and promoting.

Not all insurance companies have a GAP-style option to add to a policy. 

Depends on how much I put down. On a high dollar, fast depreciating car like a BMW or Merc, I’d say it’s cheaper to pay the $500 than eat the 10s of thousands in the event of a total loss without GAP. I make decent money but I refuse to write that much off in to thin air.

GAP is theoretically for the life of the loan. Not for the next year. I don’t even know where you got that from. Obviously, there’s going to be a point where what you owe is equal to or less than what insurance is expected to pay out if your car gets totaled. But that’s about 3 or so years of payments. Maybe more…

I don’t keep cars long enough to ever need to use what benefits an extended warranty offers. So therefore, I refuse to pay that cost up front. If I do keep a car long past its factory warranty period, I will pay for repairs out of pocket. And if I feel like it’s going to cost me more than I would like, I’ll sell it…

I’m not talking about used cars and neither is this article.

I won’t sell family members or friends vehicles UNLESS they get a warranty.

Yup. I’ve used the same dialogue with finance guys at the dealer.

Sounds par for the course for dealer financing. The only add-on I would get is GAP, and that’s only if I’m financing through the dealer. The whole, “you have to buy extended warranty and prepaid maintenance to get this deal” shtick is a lie and any car buyer should be ready to tell them them that the deal is off…

Chargers once again proving why they’re the American Altimas.

The Cayenne is Porsche’s money maker that allows them to keep making the 911 and 718. The Porsche community calls Cayennes and Macans, ‘what’s my monthly payment’ cars because they’re almost always financed and bought as a status symbol by wealthy suburbanites.

Ferrari. Easily. Ferrari drivers are SO, SO, SO bad that certain track day specific insurance companies have stopped issuing coverage to anything Ferrari being taken to the track. Most likely because Ferraris crash a lot and it costs the insurance companies a lot of money for repairs and/or payouts. It doesn’t even…

They are not great cars.

Crazy how phenomenal the steering is on the CX-50 when in this segment, it doesn’t actually matter. Mazda is dedicated to making fun to drive, and great looking commuter cars. As a car enthusiast myself, I’d sacrifice a bit of cargo and passenger space for the sake of a better looking and even better driving CUV.