People Apparently Want More Screens Inside Their Cars? For In-Car Entertainment? Vehicle screens keep getting bigger. You’ll be hard pressed to find a car with a screen size less than eight inches, even on base models. A recent survey shows buyers want more in-car entertainment and they’re willing to have more screens to get it, as Variety reports. Read more…

Paid off car… Credit score tanked? I (25M) have had a FICO hovering around 733 for a while now. In May, I paid off the remaining 11k on my vehicle loan that I had since February ’20. Just got an updated FICO from my banks and I’m at 688. I know that score is not terrible, and I’m not in immediate need of using my credit for a house or another car, but a 55 point drop is substanti…

Get Your Kids Into Lowrider Culture Early With This Custom Pedal Car How do you get kids into car culture? Do you buy them Hot Wheels, take them go-karting, or bring them out to see the biggest races in real life? No. You give them this perfect lowrider pedal car and watch them fall in love immediately. Read more…

The 2024 Ford Mustang Is The Last Great V8-Powered Muscle Car At this point, the Ford Mustang is the last V8-powered muscle car left on the market — fitting given it was the original muscle car. The Chevrolet Camaro exited production a few months ago, and the new Dodge Charger has either straight-six or EV power. So unless you spend big money on something British or German, the… Read more…

Uber will pay you $1,000 to ditch your car for five weeks Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeTraffic got you down? If the idea of locking your car keys in a drawer and using alternate means of transportation sounds intriguing, Uber has the challenge for you. Today, the ridehailing company announced the One Less Car trial, in which 175 people in the US and Canada will be selected to ditch their cars…

Should We Pay Off Car Loan? I’ve been thinking of paying off entire car loan and can’t really see why not. My wife and I owe about $30K on a car loan at 6.69% over 2.5 years. We have no other debt worth paying off and sitting on $70k of cash in a hysa planned to use for down payment on a house we plan to buy in ~4 years. The house down payment goal was only $100k and we ha…

International debt collection, rental car junk fee I am American. I got a parking ticket in the UK (residential street, no meters, did not realize it was permit only). My rental car company charged me 40 pounds for the service of forwarding me the parking ticket email. Ticket has been paid. Credit card flagged it as fraudulent an I did not correct them. Now the 40 pound fee has gone to debt coll…

Unfairly charged with a fee for “scratching” a rental car Was wondering if anybody had this happen to them before. I rented a car with my friend to drive around Portugal, and we were super, super careful with it. After returning it back to the car rental company, they said that we scratched a part of the car (the black plastic footboard) and charged us an extra 200 euros for it. We tried to explain tha…

LPT for mechanic/car shops Order your parts online ahead of time if you’re having a small issue that will become a big issue. Brakes, suspension parts as example you’ll save lots. Sometimes shops will buy the parts you need from vendors and it sometimes will be 2-3 times more expensive. I ordered a rear brake and rotor kit for $50 when usually one rotor is $50. submi…

Buying A New Car Will Be Even More Miserable Than Usual For The Foreseeable Future CDK Global, a software platform designed to streamline car sales that’s in use at nearly 15,000 dealerships across North America, has been hamstrung for several days due to cyberattacks, and dealers may feel the effects for years. Car dealerships have been riding the gravy train with biscuit wheels since the onset of… Read more…

Here Is How The CDK Cyberattack May Make Buying Your Next Car Harder Around 15,000 car dealers across the country have been impacted by the cyberattack on CDK Global, a company that dealers use to handle the financial aspects of the transaction. While most consumers probably don’t have a lot of sympathy for dealers, this cyberattack may make it a lot harder for you to find a deal. Read more…

Just got into a high interest car loan, how do I start getting ahead on it ? Okay, well I’m not dumb as I might sound.. but my credit is very bad. Mid 400s. Im in the midst of rebuilding my credit and is settling collections and getting them removed. I was very desperate for a car, couldn’t get approved anywhere, I work at a factory plant that I pretty much walk to everyday. I am renting a room for $875 a month. I bought…

Car loan unpaided (not mine) Reddit users I need advice. It’s not my loan but someone else’s. Basically she paided some on the car loan then quit paying. She still has the car they haven’t repossessed it. Hasn’t paided in over 6 months. She wants to just pay the loan off in full without penalties. Is the possible? Also I know this is not something anyone should do. Just adv…

Intending to buy car with money still owed on current car- question I’ve read several posts and done mild research in to what price point I should be looking for and if used or new is the right route- but am coming to this forum for more information. I have about $3500 left to pay on a 10yr old car that is beginning to show signs of decline. (Just had to pay $900 on a brake issue and mechanic suggested I replac…

Does it really make sense to drive a car until you can’t anymore? For context my current vehicle is at 250k+ miles, and it is very inevitable that I will need to purchase a newer vehicle soon. I understand the logic of driving a vehicle towards the end of its life, but is there a point where it makes more sense to sell what you have to use that towards a newer (slightly used) vehicle? For each month I am able …

This prototype turns your car’s windshield into a giant AR display A huge panel becomes an AR projector powered by data from eye tracking sensors in this prototype. | Image: Adi Robertson / The VergeCar infotainment systems are getting ever bigger, but a startup’s new prototype takes things further than even something like Ford’s pillar-to-pillar touchscreen — by turning your windshield into a full-color 3D hea…

Your Car’s Thermometer Is Probably Wrong No matter where you are in the country right now, it’s hot. (Wrong. —Ed.) From New York City to San Diego, it’s like God has set up a massive hair dryer over the continent. If you happen to be in your car though and you want to know just how hot it is, don’t count on your car’s thermometer being accurate, as The… Read more…

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How do I make this look less like a toy car? It’s lit by a 26” deep para softbox (so a softbox with extra steps lol) and if cut the light off the seamless paper submitted by /u/Fromthechitothegate

Start Emergency Fund or pay off car? loan: 8.64%, 11k i bring home 4.4k a month. i have 0 in savings. EDIT: I live with my parents and have 30k in Roth IRA. My expenses currently are