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Proposed Budget:$50k-$60k New or Used: Either Body Style: 2 door or 4 door How will you be using the car?: Mostly a fun daily driver to work (20 min). Maybe some fun driving on the weekend. But no track driving. What aspects are most important to you? Reliability. Moderate maintenance costs. Performance. I'm mainly trying to decide between the Honda Civic Si and the Type R. This will be my first sports car. I'm excited by the Type R, but I'm worried about maintenance costs and it may be more car than I need since I'm not going to track it. In either case should I stick to new only. To avoid thrashed trade-ins? Travic fucked around with this message at 16:27 on Sep 21, 2023 |
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Is there a particular trim level of Miata I need to look at? I don't necessarily need a back seat I'm just a bit of a Honda fan boy. I'll definitely try a Miata out. Thanks for the advice.
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Sep 21, 2023 18:47
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Godzilla07 posted:Since it hasn't been mentioned yet, consider a 2018+ Ford Mustang GT. The Mustang is an easy car to live with every day, it's still quite competent on a winding back road if you have those where you live, and I'd take its V8 any day over a turbo-4. I'll go check one of those out. Thank you. ethanol posted:op are you planning on keeping the car for longer than 3 years? Whoops missed this. Yes I intend to keep it for many years. Travic fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Sep 21, 2023 |
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Sep 21, 2023 22:13
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Thanks for the good advice everyone. I'm very new to all this. I'll look into as many of those as I can. One last thing. How wary should I be of used sports cars? I'm worried about getting something someone leased, thrashed around the track a bunch, then returned.
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Sep 22, 2023 15:11
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Ok cool. I feel better now. Thanks.
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Sep 22, 2023 16:04
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What is the forum's opinion on CarMax? I'm thinking about getting a Civic Type R in the future, but dealerships wont let me test drive one. Everyone tells me to go to CarMax because I can test drive theirs. And the one near me seems to have a good one. Should I just wait until a dealership has one and skip the test drive? I know very little about CarMax and their quality.
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Feb 16, 2024 01:13
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Ok cool. Here is the car. Does this seem like a good deal? They're offering it for less than a dealer would with mark-up. I love it aside from the alcantara steering wheel. Which I assume can be swapped out?
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Feb 16, 2024 02:15
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Ok cool. Thanks. I'll head up there later today.
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Feb 16, 2024 14:22
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Man I would not buy a Type R from CarMax. CarMax is for buying commodity cars.You got no idea on the car's history and the type of person to unload a low mileage Type R to Carmax is, to put it politely, likely a loving idiot of a PO. You're not saving much money. You test drove the car at CarMax and liked it. Now go to your local Honda dealer and buy a brand new Type R from them. Understood. That's kind of what I was afraid of. I saw the steering wheel on some of the pictures CarMax took of it.
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Feb 16, 2024 17:57
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Well that was awe-inspiring. Did the test drive earlier today and yeah, that thing is fun. Wildly fun. I definitely need to look into getting one.
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