max225 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 03, 2025 1:46 pm I hate the looks but love the engine

The red with the silver trim does not help. I generally think they look good, though it's a bummer we didn't get the hatch here.

Melon2.0 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 03, 2025 10:01 am RS3 is stupid quick with a tune.

One of these would be fun.

https://www.carmax.com/car/27016519

Zero chance we'd break even. Our mortgage payment now is under $2k/mo, but we're taking out a HELOC for the down payment on the new place. I can't seem to find the HELOC statements from our broker ATM, but I think we could probably rent the place for $3k/mo or a bit more, and I'm sure the HELOC pay...

It's pretty much a break even monthly payment (because we have a 15 year mortgage) after paying a property manager. This house will be paid off in ten years, so if we can go the distance, it could pay off nicely. Worst case scenario, they fuck up the house and it's miserable, we sell it after the f...

D Griff wrote: ↑Wed Jul 02, 2025 4:29 pm

max225 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 02, 2025 4:28 pm

One is a throwaway SUV the other is a near lifelong commitment. but yes generally same stream of consciousness.

What's happening to the current house?

Think we're going to live dangerously and rent it.

We might end up there too. We shall see.

Also, DEETS!! Under contract on this beotch: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/807-Water-Wheel-Ct-Charlotte-NC-28209/6242190_zpid/? :iono: we started looking around at some places and it escalated quickly. :tits: wanted more space, I wanted a better location and garage (both from day one but could...

Yeah. We are fucked. Should have just taken what I thought was a lowball...highly doubt we'll even get that now. Either way you have equity I am assuming. Unless you bought in in 2022. We bought in 2019 and put down ~31% of the purchase price. We listed at $625 initially, offer was for $560 (we cou...

It's absolutely wild selling a house right now unless one puts it up for a screaming deal... everyone is too poor for the interest rates... But there are pockets of the markets that are still doing well. North-east in particular. And parts of the fly over states (ohio) Yeah. We are fucked. Should h...

Sooo we just bought a house as well... Pretty stoked on it, we are getting a garage at long last, more space, two stories, no more shitty stroad we have to walk on with meth heads and trash anymore but still in the great general area we're already in and love. But the thought is throwing $32K in th...

:notwrong: I just never use this car, may as well free up some money and then get something still fun I can actually use (whole family can ride in). I don't really drive anywhere by myself - WFH, bike to most errands, travel for work and drive rentals... I think I've put 500 miles or so on my car i...

Boys, I think I'm going full cuck and taking the 'vana offer of $32.2K on the 86 today. I'm going to one car it/borrow my FIL's early 90s F150 for a bit :lolgasm: I think I'll be taking mine too. The 'vana offer is up to $29,200 and the sale of our house is going nowhere. Indy was a few weeks behin...

wap wrote: ↑Mon Jun 30, 2025 9:32 pm

Lack of compass be damned.

Sorry but that's fucking horrific. I'll get on your team here, this is not for me. Thanks. I realize I'm :deadhorse: about this. Here's one I can get behind. 2026 Palisade :muah: https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/palisade-gallery-interior-view-0-1-67531470f2dd9.jpg?crop=0.685xw:1.00xh;0,0...

:dat: It's all in how well its integrated. A flat gloss black thing with a few small screens looks cheap as fuck. One continuous screen with varying information/infotainment. :notbad: The new Lincoln Nautilus Blackwood does the panoramic screen really well. https://static.tcimg.net/vehicles/oem/ed6...

Continuous screen all across the dash and another on the console? I know this is the way interiors are going, but man, total pass from me. Glad you dig it, though. The CT5 got a wider screen for 2025 as part of the update. The CT4 remains the same. It's a poor seller and will probably be killed off...

Continuous screen all across the dash and another on the console? I know this is the way interiors are going, but man, total pass from me. Glad you dig it, though.

:howdareu: :iono: have you tried it? I just don't see why it's so offensive. Is it worse than a knob? Yep, but it's very marginal. How often are you really changing the HVAC per drive, a couple times? It didn't bother me. I haven't driven the Jetta with the full capacitive hvac panel, but I didn't ...

https://www.gcmchicago.com/details-2013 ... 22918.html

You should do this.......like today. There are so many non-seppuku cars you can buy that are more family friendly and pocket the change. Yeah I’m kinda thinking yeah. I’m sad though, always wanted a whorange sports car . Still kinda want an STI more than anything else, someday I’ll drive things may...

D Griff wrote: ↑Thu Jun 26, 2025 8:59 pm So I have a rental Jetta this week… the capacitive stuff is honestly fine… like I’m not in love with it but it works and really is NBD.

The transmission is terrible but it’s otherwise a pretty nice little commuter.

I watched some savage geese video on the (I can’t remember the year but I think it was) 2024 model GTI and they said it was amazingly different and kept praising the way it went around corners. They changed something with the dampers or whatever. The car was a manual but they said get the DSG… I th...

Johnny_P wrote: ↑Thu Jun 26, 2025 12:47 pm If Coogles, Griff, and Max all buy GTIs I might have to join them. I’d be down with a Pomelo yellow DSG Autobahn.

GoRf or bust!

How bad is street parking at the new home? I’d just street park the Atlas and NFG it man. Street parking is no problem other than my perhaps irrational fear that someone is going to hit it. Our driveway narrows to be one car wide as it goes past the house, so you can't park in the driveway without ...