ThatVanGuy is 100% correct. Take it from the readers that have the 20-20 hindsight and don’t be a fool.

This 100%

Amen, brother...

good advice. but let him spend the money, it drives economy LOL

Back in the mid-2000s when my age group were graduating from college. Getting that new 3-series, A4, Wrangler, F150 etc. We used to call them 50k-millionaires.

Yeah I’ve found a few times right around major life events that I’ll buy the “toy” that I previously wanted due to more income or a special deal, and then not have the time / desire to use it anymore after the life event.

Wow, what a total buzzkill you are. (You are also correct. Wisdom is recognizing that those two things very often go together in life.)

This part. 

God this is amazing - if anyone offered this today i would sell my Jag and buy it.

Plese do NOT insult 2002.

This car is pure sex. You’re out of your fucking mind.

You could not possibly be more wrong.

Gonna go a bit left field on this one, but some of the worst interiors for the year and price were Bangle-Era BMW’s. I actually think the exteriors aged quite well, the interiors not so much. Early iDrive was and still is terrible. Crappy shifter that would either feel like a fisher price toy or break. The worst point…

That’s a fantastic interior. Everything is tactile and where it should be. You could drive this and never have to look anywhere but where you’re going. There’s a platform for things (laptop, lunch, barbecue...), and you can literally hose out the dirt and crap.

The mid-to-late aughts Nissan Quest interior was garbage. Not only did the center console look like a plasticky R2D2, but the instrument cluster was an eyesore (not to mention hard to read while you were driving), and the whole thing was an ergonomic nightmare. We had these as company fleet cars and I assure you, the…

Tesla, full stop

There’s no way it would have stayed buried for decades if there was anything to it.

You can’t discount it because you don’t believe it. We now the government is a deep black hole and it’s quite easy to hide things for decades.

Oh please, teenagers are going to have sex whether it is in a Yugo or a Winnebago if they want to. The best you can do is make sure they are safe with it. Give ‘em something they can be comfortable in and they are more likely to remember the condoms than if they are frantically scrambling to get comfortable.

Typical daytime yes, but commutes are most often morning and evening, and particularly in the morning it’s closer to the low temp for the day which does regularly get down to below -10.