BigTyla goes car shopping!

[Snook]

Great thread! I've been shopping for an EVO 8-10 and STI's all week long. I need a new daily driver and honestly something that the wife can take the kids in when I take her truck to the track. (it's my tow rig) I've driven all of these of course and I go back and forth. I love the EVO X, but the flappy paddle gearbox I'm undecided on. It's cool, but you totally lose the control of a clutch. In the snow, not an awesome feature. The STI seems more refined on the interior than the X. Although, I came across a really nice silver one, but it had the blue seats. I mean, c'mon, silver car, black interior bits and blue seats? Bad combo. On a blue car, hells yes, but on silver?? I'm still looking around on Craigslist and Auto Trader but chances are I may hit the dealers this weekend too.

There's a clean 08 evo x for sale close to me.

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[IPD]

[vroom4]

Yea, that thing is hideous.

[maTT]

Tyler, you are a new dad with multiple kids. I'd highly recommend against spending $35k on a car...especially a sports couple. Unless you have a couple mil sitting in the bank you need to buy a sub $10k 4-door civic and bank the rest for the future. That Explorer isn't going to last forever. Are you thinking about financing a car? Don't do it. Especially after you just gained a mortgage. That is a formula for disaster and financial grief. I know, I'm an unpopular party pooper.

[PearlWhiteR/T]

^This man has some good words of wisdom. I might have to side with him on this one.

[sergechronos]

Tyler, you are a new dad with multiple kids. I'd highly recommend against spending $35k on a car...especially a sports couple. Unless you have a couple mil sitting in the bank you need to buy a sub $10k 4-door civic and bank the rest for the future. That Explorer isn't going to last forever. Are you thinking about financing a car? Don't do it. Especially after you just gained a mortgage. That is a formula for disaster and financial grief. I know, I'm an unpopular party pooper.

Way to go Dreamkiller. This is why we can't have nice things around here.

[AdamVR4]

Tyler, you are a new dad with multiple kids. I'd highly recommend against spending $35k on a car...especially a sports couple. Unless you have a couple mil sitting in the bank you need to buy a sub $10k 4-door civic and bank the rest for the future. That Explorer isn't going to last forever. Are you thinking about financing a car? Don't do it. Especially after you just gained a mortgage. That is a formula for disaster and financial grief. I know, I'm an unpopular party pooper.

LOL! Your personal financial misery has turned you into a real sunshine pumper. We borrowed ~$15K @ ~1.2% for our FR-S that we can pay off in full on a whim. Financial ruin here we come!

[BigTyla]

Tyler, you are a new dad with multiple kids. I'd highly recommend against spending $35k on a car...especially a sports couple. Unless you have a couple mil sitting in the bank you need to buy a sub $10k 4-door civic and bank the rest for the future. That Explorer isn't going to last forever. Are you thinking about financing a car? Don't do it. Especially after you just gained a mortgage. That is a formula for disaster and financial grief. I know, I'm an unpopular party pooper.

In my old position I would have agreed with you completely. I was working on my own and paying a mortgage while my wife was getting her Master's degree for Nurse Practitioner, and she had our twins in the middle of it all, so I did not have the luxury of spending money on a newer vehicle besides her Odyssey for toting the kids around in.

Of course, that was then and this is now. She graduated and is in a highly stable line of work making as much part time as I make full time, and I make a very good living on my own. Without coming off as a complete braggart, I could easily finance even a $70k car comfortably (especially with today's historically low rates), but I'd rather take that money and invest it and pay off debts while I'm still young.

[IPD]

to be honest, tyla, i wouldn't even consider financing a car period. and i'd be capping hers and my roth's at $5500 each before i calculated how much out of the annual budget i could blow on a car.

[vroom4]

Wow, you just want suggestions on a car and now you are getting IRA advice.....