What’s The Most Oddly Satisfying Thing About Your Car? No car is actually perfect, and even if it is perfect for one person, it might be a different person’s worst nightmare on four wheels. I would argue, though, that every car has at least one or two redeeming qualities, it’s just some are harder to deduce than others. I want to know what is the one thing in your car… Read more…

First Car 21yo: What should my maximum price be? Hello, I’m 21 and I make 17/hr at 30 hours a week. I have at least 20k saved up and I’m trying to figure out how much is too much to spend on a new car. I have no crazy debt and have another 6 months until I can see my credit score. My current vehicle has had 2x more repairs than the price i bought it for, and I commute 30 mins a day for work, s…

Mad Mike’s Next Drift Car Is A Rotary Swapped $3.2M McLaren P1 GTR Everyone’s favorite Antipodean rotary head, Mad Mike Whiddett, is constantly trying to find new and exciting cars to rotary swap and burn tires with. The guy has made dozens of Mazda Doriftos, and after a long time sticking with chassis from the same manufacturer, he’s started branching out to more exotic hardware. Las… Read more…

The Best Car Vacuums to Keep Your Vehicle Clean You spend a lot of time in your car, so why not keep it crumb-free?

Cheaper to finance a new car than an older one? I recently moved to LA from Europe (first car in us) and I think it’s time to get a car, I have around $25K in savings and originally I wanted to buy an older car, something from ~2016 for like $18,000 but then I saw that the financing option rate for older cars was a lot that at the end of the 60 months I would end up paying like $30,000 . If I…

15k savings. Car down payment vs investing. Hi all, I’m 27 F, with annual income of 80k. I’m in serious need of a car right now to commute. I have 15k in savings , my brother suggest I put all of it in the down payment. I have emergency savings of 7k and a 401k. Please advise on ways to use this amount and also suggest what would be an ideal price for a new car for my income. The ones I l…

Saving for car & future down payment Hi all! Just some context & facts, I am 22 and recently graduated. Will be starting work in a month at 70k salary, and have no loans or debt if any kind. My Roth has been fully funded annually since I was 18, and I have a fully funded emergency fund (not too much since I live with my parents and intend to do so until at least 24) and separate ge…

Even How Your Car’s Window Switches Work Is Federally Mandated Did you know that in 2010, power window switch designs were federally governed to minimize strangulations and other injuries caused by unintentional activation of the window switch? Neither did I, but the regulation makes a lot of sense. A small shift in window switch design has drastically reduced the number of… Read more…

Ford CEO Says He Mortgaged His House To Buy A Vintage Sports Car Ford CEO Jim Farley is a genuine car fanatic, which is something of a rarity among car company c-suite execs. It’s about more than just the numbers with this guy, because he understands where enthusiasts are coming from. He gets that the financial decisions we make as car enthusiasts aren’t always advisable, because… Read more…

The Best Items to Keep Your Car Clean and Organized Cars can easily become catch-alls for random items of clothing, fast food trash, and other odds and ends. Let’s clean it up.

What’s The Most Dad-Coded Car? It should be understood that anyone can be a Dad. It’s a state of mind thing, sometimes you’re a Dad just for a few minutes while you’re using a pocket knife, saying “I’m going to count to three and…” or digging through the trash looking for your keys. Cars are like this, too. Some cars are just for Dads, for Dad… Read more…

How do I get over these car loans. Me and my wife both have car loans for our cars, me with about 9,000 left on my loan, and my wife with almost double that. I refinanced with my bank and my payments are easily manageable. Her payments are 430$ a month, which is a little harder to swallow because she doesn’t use her car, well she does but in the last two months she might have use…

$30k Car – Purchase Outright? Hi, I’m 23 and have $75k in cash saved. I live at home with parents and have a full time job making $60k/yr with no degree or other debts. Would it be irresponsible of me to sell my current car ($7k) and buy a $30k used car? I don’t go through cars often and I’m very specific with the cars I buy, ensuring they last a long time. Or should I keep …

Just graduated, buying my first car Hello!!! I’ve just graduated and will be starting a full-time job in Alexandria in about a month (I live in Alexandria with my parents). With receiving a job comes the need to purchase a car and begin paying for car insurance. I will need to drive to work everyday. However, I don’t anticipate staying in the Alexandria job for more than a year or…

All Of Charli XCX’s Car References In Her New Album Brat Charli XCX is the queen of putting out bangers with excellent car references in her lyrics, and even songs that are mainly about cars. I mean, just look at her songs “Vroom Vroom,” “White Mercedes,” “Porsche,” “Backseat” and the track “Speed Drive” that was featured in the Barbie movie. It’s especially fitting that… Read more…

Dealership Sells Car Out From Under Woman Who Brought It In For Repairs A woman in Knoxville, Tennessee had to turn to a local news station’s “Help Me” consumer affairs guy after a used car dealership sold her Ford Taurus out from under her after she brought it in for repairs. If that wasn’t bad enough, months later, the car was still registered in her name. For just one day, I’d really… Read more…

Canceling Car insurance policy I’m in the process of removing my car off State farms policy because I am surrendering it before I have to pay for the month but they still want 800 dollars even if I cancle the policy a week before I would have paid why? submitted by /u/BigBotyBossla

My car has turned into a money suck. What do I do? I bought a 2020 Hyundai Elantra back in 2022 for around $20K with an 11% APR, $382 monthly payments, and $145 monthly warranty payments. At the time, I was making $50K a year with the opportunity to make more after I finished the training program I was in. I had to leave that program because of internal differences between me and management. I g…

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Pay off debt or save for car? We have about 6k saved towards a car. We have about 3500 in small debts ie credit card, personal loan. Should I take 1k from my check today and 2500 from our car savings and knock off that debt? My thought process is that without the debt we can save more/quicker towards the car. Goal for vehicle is 10-12k by the end of August. submitted by…