The fastest cars on the highway seem to be these trucks (or 10-year-old Altimas), but are probably the least capable of handling higher speeds. Yet if you go 5 mph faster than them in a proper performance car on good summer tires you’ll get the ticket.

North Carolina.

You know, last year (almost to the day) when I saw one of the articles, I left work and bought a Focus ST.

The best thing I did was to pay my car loan weekly. It saves a few hundred in interest over the life of the loan and pays it off 6 months sooner. I also get the added benefit of that if I need money, then I can skip making a couple payments. Not ideal, but it’s a better option than many other routes.

I want to say that personal finance was at least an option while I was in college, if not a requirement for some majors. My major was finance, so I’m not entirely sure what other’s requirements were.

I say this whenever I feel like responding to one of these types of posts. I get in the car, turn it on immediately, and by the time I plug my phone in, get the music playing, get buckled up, and put the car into gear, it’s ready to go. I also park my car in a garage and live in an area where it rarely drops below 20F.

When I went to a Focus ST from a Mustang GT, I found that the Focus’ gas mileage was affected by speed much more than the Mustang. The Focus still gets better mileage, but the difference between 65 and 80 mph is something like 5 mpg in the Focus.

love my Focus ST and that it only came with a clutch, but sometimes I’m intrigued by a good auto. Depending on what my next car is, thinking M235 or 08-09 Cayman, if the car came with a good auto, I think I’m going to get it.

Really good seats.

My dad is pretty much the same way. Whenever we go out he tips $3 no matter how much the bill is. Though I haven’t seen it when the bill was much over $40. Many times I will throw a couple extra dollars on the table behind his back. Just depends on opportunity and what’s in my wallet.

One thing that I always think with things like this is that if someone is making that much money, and we greatly increase their tax rates, then they will move and we will lose the money that they are currently paying.

If you were to take home the lump sum of roughly $350 million, depending on the state and invested it in the current treasury bonds rate of about 2-3% depending on investment length. You’d bring home between $7-11 million a year tax-free, all while still retaining that $350 million rainy day fund.

My neighbors are going to hate me, but honestly, I’m OK with that.

My neighbors are going to hate me, but honestly, I’m OK with that.

This seems like something that I would do. Especially if I was tired and playing with my phone. Once I realized my mistake, my exact words would probably be “oh shit, that’s awkward”

I’m going to go ahead and say that an ad isn’t going to change much of anything. Especially one that pretty egregiously exaggerates the effects visually. Unfortunately, I think that it could remain a big issue for the next decade or more. If you think about how cigarette smoking was reduced in teens and young adults,…

I was born. End of story

Bought a car on BaT. Flew from Raleigh to Denver on Thursday. Got on the road around 2PM and cannon balled it to the other side of Kansas City. Then made the rest of the trip the next day to Raleigh. Got in at about 2 AM on Saturday, and then had a flight for work Sunday morning. 1700 miles in 36 hours all by myself.

While I love my Focus ST, for someone that does long drives a lot, they are horribly uncomfortable.

About that 40% difference. That might hold more true for trade in value, but if you compare CPO vs new, which seems more fair for this situation, it won’t hold true.

I recently bought a new Focus ST, and while the difference was bigger than this article it was still only $3-4k difference for similar CPO models. To spend an extra few thousand dollars so I don’t have 30k miles of, I don’t know, is well worth it. Especially on a car that people tend to beat on.