Thinking about selling my IS250 - what next?
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Honestly don't car about engine size, year, anything you listed, just the stuff I said above:
What I would like in a car:
Used
Foreign
Reliability and/or cheap fixes
Still look somewhat nice and/or have some zip
FWD
After I sell my car and/or trade-in and pay off school loans I will have about 10k +/- to buy something with
Practical with style/zip and paid for is the name of the game this time around. All the other toys are paid for, so it would be nice to drop a car payment.
What I would like in a car:
Used
Foreign
Reliability and/or cheap fixes
Still look somewhat nice and/or have some zip
FWD
After I sell my car and/or trade-in and pay off school loans I will have about 10k +/- to buy something with
Practical with style/zip and paid for is the name of the game this time around. All the other toys are paid for, so it would be nice to drop a car payment.
lol well in that crieria I think the Mazda 6 MKS would be the best as it's even in the TOP GEAR's top board of cars whom ran their track in fastest times...I think it's around the same if not better than M3 around their track....I needa look at that list again.
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My only car besides my IS was a 2006 acura rsx, 5 speed. Awesome beater, had it for 2 years and put 40 thousand miles on it. Great on gas, and i never had to pay for anything major as far as maintenance is concerned. Definitely wasnt fast by any means, but it had plenty of options for customization. I'd recommend it.
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Is your car paid off? What are you going to do, sell your car, buy one of the above pocket the difference and drive the car that can't compare to what you're driving now in terms of looks, feels, reliability? Keep your car, dude! You're not saving that much money with the choices you listed. I'd ride a bike to work, keep my car to enjoy the weekend.
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Is your car paid off? What are you going to do, sell your car, buy one of the above pocket the difference and drive the car that can't compare to what you're driving now in terms of looks, feels, reliability? Keep your car, dude! You're not saving that much money with the choices you listed. I'd ride a bike to work, keep my car to enjoy the weekend.
When you have it down to a shortlist, I'd go onto Geico or Allstate and do quotes for each car. My friend with a 2003 RSX pays higher premiums than I do in my 2007 IS350 (and I live in the city while he lives in the suburbs) presumably because it's considered a boy racer car and because it's discontinued, making replacement parts more expensive.
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Is your car paid off? What are you going to do, sell your car, buy one of the above pocket the difference and drive the car that can't compare to what you're driving now in terms of looks, feels, reliability?
If/when I see it I will have enough to pay off the rest of the loan, pay off the rest of my student loans, and have around 10k left over for a new car. With that said I could also keep a little left on the loan and bump my price up to around 14k or so.... but in a perfect world I would have ZERO debt and a car.
My friend with a 2003 RSX pays higher premiums than I do in my 2007 IS350
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In order to maintain good credit you must HAVE debt that you pay on, and on time. FYI. Even if you have credit cards you are not using, if you don't use them you get docked credit points as well....even getting credit score quotes docks you. This society is one fat ***** catch 22 in every sense of the phrase
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How about a 350Z?
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In order to maintain good credit you must HAVE debt that you pay on, and on time.