Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Shitbaru?
Does she work in branding?

Poobaru, Shirley?

A new calling maybe.....

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I get the same shit from my mum, don't worry.
Her current position is that I should buy a brand new car, and I don't need a fast family car so I'll be able to afford it.

Part of me is wondering if I sell the Volvo and use as a deposit, personal loan on the rest of the value, buy something outright, but I don't think the numbers will ever stack up on something decent.

/wipes tear from cock

Boom

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I would love a Merc estate... Is there a 4WD version so I can take it beach camping on Stradbroke Island?

Our inlaws constantly ask how the car is running and if we still have it, its often the first thing they ask. When we do try and buy a new car, they try to be helpful but don't understand that we don't want to use our savings for a deposit on a new silver astra, and are happy to continue down the bangernomics route.

What? You don't want a new astra? You gotta be out of your mind

I always dreamed of owning a vauxhall as a kid as well...

My parents said the same thing about this car, funny thing being that it's actually newer than their car... Oh, the lolz... "Yeah, but... (pause)..."

Oh fuck.

Timesert or new sump.

Opel? Or is vauxhall a british company?

same thing different name isn't it?

Vauxhall / Opel is currently the same, GM sold it to PSA in 2017

In polo rally car news, i found a few odd parts i've been after from Volkswagen Classic Parts.

I still need a windscreen seal, a boot seal and two door seals, but christ door seals are expensive - 150eur each

Vauxhall advertising states that Vauxhall is a British company.

Vauxhall Motors Limited is a British car manufacturer, which is a fully owned subsidiary of German car manufacturer Opel, which in turn is owned by Groupe PSA of France.

French owned British brand perhaps

Since we started talking about the complete opposite, and I had a lot of time while waiting for complex SQL queries to run, I started playing the what can I buy for X game.

Settling on a 30k budget, and the criteria being an unnecessarily fast estate between 3 and 5 years old, it seems like the best option is actually a used E63 if you're willing to go 5 years old, C63 if you want to stay 3 years old. You could get an F31 340i M Sport (3 year old 3 series estate with the new 3.0 turbo 6cyl engine). With Audi, a 5 year old S4 Avant can be had for just half the budget.

How is one supposed to afford a 30k used car? What sort of payment options are available?

You stop writing SQL and start managing a team.

Loan calculator

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I take you've seen what you can do with an old S4? Very easily tuned to RS4 beating power....

I'm kind of wary of having an 8 year loan on a used car, but I guess it will depreciate about the same rate as paying the loan off.

I was asking because I was wondering what other options there were other than an unsecured personal loan.

If you buy an "approved" used car from a dealer and use their finance options, and you basically pay the depreciation over 3 years, you end up with nothing but also with no deposit to use on getting a new car in 3 years time, so are you supposed to save for a deposit while also paying the monthly payments?

I'm asking semi seriously here because I've never bought a brand or nearly new car, and if I do want to own one of the above in the near future (October 2021 perhaps), what would I need to be able to afford a month?

I can then make plans accordingly.

Ha! Current applying for managerial jobs and they're still demanding "advanced SQL knowledge".

I guess that's so you can correct errors?
And check that your underlings do things properly.
You can haz your car!