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My next new car?
shmokes:
My Honda Civic had an option for an iPod dongle for like $350 that allows you to control the iPod from the head unit. I didn't get it, but I saw a review of it. It looks unbelievably awful. As nice as it would be to be able to keep my iPod out of sight (and charging) in the glove box and control it with the head unit, Honda's implementation seems to be utter crap. The generic audio in port is standard, and good enough.
pointdablame:
Best Vehicles under $25k
Saw this article today and thought it was pretty relevant to this discussion. It's a pretty nice run down of what you can get for $25k these days in the new car world.
FrizzleFried:
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--- Quote from: HarumaN on March 17, 2008, 11:03:04 am ---Get a Honda Fit, I did... and I love it. Not too expensive, great gas milage, and still fun to drive.
Here's a pic of mine parked in my driveway, the color is blackberry pearl:
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My god is that one helluva pile of ugly!
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Said the doctor to Mama FrizzleFried...
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Actually, I was quite an ugly little freakin' baby. 10 lbs 9 oz of fatness...
ChadTower:
That's awesome. I just realized that babies are smaller than a good cheeseburger.
paigeoliver:
Unless they are rusting out then that isn't really true. You might have a bad year or two, but for the vast majority of cars it is more economically viable to keep repairing them then it is to buy a brand new car.
You see when you buy a new car you are paying for 100 percent new parts and 100 percent of the labor to put a new car together, (and all the taxes and higher insurance rates associated with a new car).
However, most of the components in an existing car that you keep repairing will never get replaced.
Many studies have been done on this and keeping an old car on the road that isn't rusting out is FAR cheaper per mile than a new car is. In fact the annual difference in insurance costs, interest and taxes alone on a late model vehicle (compared to an older devalued one) is usually FAR HIGHER than those supposed pricey repair costs.
Even stuff like Porsches, Bentley's and that Mercedes 380SL I have (which have wicked high repair and maintenance costs) still compare very favorably in price towards driving a NEW car.
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Well, there's a point where you're paying as much in repair per month as you are for a new car payment. That is definitely well before the car is a useless pile of steel.
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