Kids College fund or save for a new car I currently save $500 a month for my kids college fund. I have (almost) no debt and want it to stay that way in the future. I will need a new vehicle in the next 5 years or so and want to pay cash. Should I stop contributing to the kids 529 plans to save up and pay cash for the vehicle? Kids are 5 & 3. Thanks in advance for the advice. su…

At what point is a New(er) Car mathematically worth it? Constant maintenance of 10y/o car with 100k miles . My 2013 Nissan Rogue, lets say on average, is $2,000 a year of additional maintenance of parts breaking down. That’s what the last 3 years has been, roughly. The loan has $4000 left on it at 13% APR. However, I’m dumping every spare penny into my retirement and stock market, and wanted to do that for another 2-3 years before upgrading my car. I …

Car rental in LA for one day I’m going to Los Angeles, California and need to rent a car for about 24 hours to take a trip far from my family’s place (don’t want to make them drive me)… Any recommendations? Hoping for an late afternoon/evening pickup and late afternoon/drop-off. Have used Turo in others states before and worked well. Zipcar seems to be another option… J…

Car rental in USA as an European I want to rent a car from Enterprise. I understand that I need an extra car insurance? Which extra should I take? Is Damage Waiver enough? Or do I need Personal Effects Coverage? Or Roadside Protection? Or SLP? My own travel insurance covers this: “We cover the excess or damage liability fee for stolen or damaged rental cars. This coverage does …

Will paying off my first car loan early make it hard to get another? I’m 18 and for the past 5 months I’ve been financing a car(with a co-signer) for 4000. I put 4000 down so 50%. I’ve been paying a lot towards it every month so I don’t have to worry about it anymore and right now I only owe 950. People tell me about loan history and how it matters when you try to finance a car on your own. Is it better to pay it…

Renting a car vs taking trains for Normandy? I am staying in Rouen for a few days visiting family and was thinking of taking a train to Bayeux to see the D-Day beaches and possibly stay overnight in Bayeux. I keep reading that it’s better to rent a car for that area, but I’m not sure if it’s worth it just for one location. Would it be better to take a scenic route to Bayeux and stop at th…

Renting Manual Car in Italy Hi! I am travelling to Italy with my fiancé at the end of the month, and we need to rent a car as we are going to a bunch of rural villages and places up and down the country. We are from Canada, but have been to Italy many times. Looking at rental cars, it is quite obvious that we will save at least $4-500 in price if we opt for a manual car….

Advise on getting a decent car note rate I’m 37 and recently returned to school, so working part time. Bringing home 17,000 this year. My credit score is ~720 with no defaults or otherwise bad marks (took a long time to get here). My boyfriend is 33, earning about 35k this year. His credit is young, under a year, but no bad marks. We are buying our home from my parents on a land contr…

LPT: place a “student driver” sign on the back of your car and no one will ever honk at you. submitted by /u/Reasonable_Exam_4759

These Are The Worst Things About Owning A Car, According To Readers I was indirectly taught about the horrors of car ownership at a young age. My family had a small collection of classics, plus two daily drivers. The classics didn’t run, but they still cost a small fortune to keep them stored in our pole barn and protected from mice. As a result, the daily drivers were pretty gnarly,… Read more…

Everything That’s Wrong With My New Ferrari Race Car Project What’s up guys? Welcome back to the MotorJeff channel! Today on the channel we’re going to be picking up a new project! We bought a wrecked Ferrari race car on eBay Motors and it’s time to give it a totally wild transformation. Make sure you subscribe and click the bell icon to stay up to date with all three hundred… Read more…

Kangaroos Are Just Too Erratic For Car Safety Systems To Detect Car makers have come up with some mighty clever tech to make driving safer, like blind spot detection systems, lane-keeping tech and even sensors to let you know if you’ve left a passenger on the back seat. One thing cars aren’t too good at detecting, however, is kangaroos. In fact, the Australian marsupials are so… Read more…

I Want To Replace My Juke With A Wagon! What Car Should I Buy? Matt likes driving vehicles that are different, but his 2011 Nissan Juke is getting up there in miles so it’s time to replace it with something with a bit more space and more modern features. He is ideally looking for a wagon or wagon-ish vehicle for around $30,000. What car should he buy? Read more…

Fisker Ocean Is Still The Worst Car YouTuber MKBHD Has Ever Reviewed Just a few weeks after calling the Fisker Ocean “the worst car I’ve ever tested,” popular tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee gave the Ocean a second chance. Despite promised software updates and an official press car to review, however, Brownlee hasn’t changed his position: the Ocean remains the worst car he’s ever… Read more…

Is financing a new car and then paying it off in cash immediately a bad idea? I’m moving in 3 months across the country – I will be needing a car in my new locale and have coincidentally saved up enough over the past couple years to be able to buy a car in cash. My family (well specifically my mother) says that this is a bad idea because “lenders want to see that you can handle large debt responsibly and make payments on …

South African soccer player killed in car hijacking Former South Africa junior international Luke Fleurs, who played for the country’s most popular club Kaizer Chiefs, was killed in a hijacking in Johannesburg, police officials confirmed Thursday.

What’s The Stereotypical Old Person’s New Car? When I was a kid, the stereotypical cars that old people drove included the exact pearlescent white 1998 Cadillac DeVille that my grandmother owned, any Buick sedan, Lincoln Town Cars, Ford Crown Victorias, and Toyota Avalons — mostly large, comfortable sedans. Now though, in a world where Cadillac sedans have gone… Read more…

NASA picks three companies to develop a Moon car for Artemis astronauts The Lunar Dawn LTV from Lunar Outpost, Lockheed Martin, General Motors (GM), Goodyear, and MDA Space. | Image: Lunar OutpostNASA has selected Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost, and Venturi Astrolab to develop the lunar terrain rover for its Artemis lunar explorations. All three companies are in the running for task orders with a potential value …

How To Store A Car For Any Length Of Time At some point in your tenure as a car enthusiast you will surely find the need to put your car away for a while. If you live in a northern climate with salt-ridden streets it becomes a necessity at least annually if you want to avoid expensive welding and painting rust-removal procedures every leap year. Whether… Read more…

What’s The Worst Thing About Owning A Car? In my driveway, right now, I have four cars. If you combined them all together, I’d probably have the equivalent of one good, decently functioning vehicle — but even then, I doubt I’d have functional brakes. For me, that never-ending maintenance cycle is probably the worst thing about vehicle ownership; right when I… Read more…