Your Christmas wish for under $100

phelan

Mine? An Audi.

Edit: wtf, why do you edit and ask me a completely different question? Are you trying to set me up or something?

My fun car is the Z. But hey, even my Audi is a joy to drive. It does everything I ask it to do.

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ImportConvert

Nice. I always heard Audi was expensive to maintain, though. This G20 has eaten me up already somewhat. Makes it hard to save money like I intended. My G20 does all I ask of it as well, though. It gets me from A to B. That is what a DD is about to me. The fun stuff will stay in storage until my nights off.

Maybe when I get into my late 20's I can afford a fast DD and a fast fun-car. Right now, though, a fast fun-car and a boring DD seem to be the speed I am at in life right now.

As has GM, the Z06 being the 2nd most reliable sports car made (second to the Porsche by a very narrow margin).

Jeffblue

i'd hope so for the price tag.

ImportConvert

Z06 isn't that expensive for what you get imho. You can get one of the left-over 2010's loaded out for 72K right now. If you want a more stripped one, they can be had in the low 60's, or could a few months ago. For a new one, start about 10K under MSRP.

It's the motor-mounts that got me. I spent a ton of money on that buying OEM mounts, then my mechanic said "Oh, you got ripped" and bought me a non-oem mount. SUPRISE! The **** broke in 2 months and I had to go buy an OEM to replace it or endure it again. Then you have that installation isn't practical at my appartment complex. Same with the axles. Basically, I didn't want to tear into a foreign car and find out I was missing something, etc. etc. I did that once on my friend's Nissan truck. Replaced his rotors/pads for him, and one of the calipers had frozen up.

Basically, I would rather work for a few hours indoors than on a car that I have no enthusiasm for except as a DD. I have vision, but not enough vision to say "If I save a couple hundred here, I can apply it 6 months later" when saving that couple-hundred involves cut up hands and time out in the cold under the car. I set aside $1500/mo for my other car, and that is enough for me.

Jeffblue

i dont understand. you talk about trying to hopefulyl save enough to have a fun sports car, and then you talk about how the z06 isn't really that expensive. last time i checked, 60k on a car is expensive. yes they do come more expensive, but that still isn't cheap. yea its a good value i guess.

phelan

They are expensive if you listen to the dealership. They steal money from you left and right. I service the car myself these days. Only one I really had to soak was a new fuel pump. ~$400 at the stealership to install. Meh.

Other than that, it's worked like a charm. Warranties and recalls have obviously occurred, but I don't pay, so I don't care.

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HKYStormFront

it's amazing to me the difference between audi and it's VW counterpart cars. audi's (in general) tend to be much more reliable even when built on the same platform and using the same powertrains

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