Suggest buying once the depreciation curve is flattened completely lol
I guess we’ve been doing it wrong all along
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If FIRE is the goal, set up a lifestyle that doesn’t need a car.
Don’t know many cities that are affordable anymore to retire at 40
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Too bad these posts never finish their job by posting the maintenance/service graph next to the depreciation graph.
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Selective analysis…term I made up…
They’re not writing a thesis for Ph.D. degree, right?
flattening the curve!
You maybe. I also get most of my meals out of a dumpster after the food cost has fallen below the depreciation curve.
*Sent from my 1987 Honda Civic
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Ha, yeah buying a 15 year crap can on Craigs and driving it for a couple years costs nothing…Lol
“You can barely see the hole in the engine block from the ISS. Price is firm.”
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You don’t have to live in a city to forego a car; again if FIRE is the goal it makes sense to completely eliminate the second largest expense in your life.
I will think about going thru a crash course
Rev up your Toyota Celica…
I guess it is not that bad if you can do the services yourself, but having a mechanic chase down leaks and do possibly long-overdue major services like timing belts just so that you find out the transmission is shot sounds like more time, money and headache than getting any of the decent Tacoma or Volvo deals that we have seen recently.
I beg to differ, wife’s ain’t cheap
Snowy off-ramp?
Ha! I’d have to let her tires go bald first…lol
FTFY.
That’s no Craigslist crap can, that’s a decent looking early 90’s Accord, it still has the paint on it too, don’t see that very often.
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I have an irrational love for these with the upright profile and massive greenhouse.
All the ones in the northeast have big corrosion issues, though.
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As long as you changed the timing belt on these, they were pretty bullet proof. I was a big fan of the Preludes from that era. I had a 91’ Civic Wagon AWD, I found out the hard way that those timing belts had an age limitation in addition to mileage, luckily I had a access to a shop to swap out the engine with a friend.
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