One of my heartbreaking moments of auto enthusiasm was discovering that not only can I not work the clutch in a Lotus Esprit because my legs are too long, but that the act of getting into and out of an Elise gives me a charley horse. I've loved that damn Esprit since frickin' For Your Eyes Only. So I feel ya. Now that you mention it, my attempts to get into a Fiat 500 were similarly comical. Friend has a Prius V. She loves it. They seem to be great beasties. Priuses, of course, are like belly buttons around here; everybody has one. I wouldn't worry too much about a rate hike. The Fed are a bunch of pussies and in the past week they slinked back from "mmmaybe 12 basis points" to "mmmmaybe early 2016." as far as your numbers... mk - where on the map is "a slightly less esoteric dialect of markup?"The Department of Transportation also reported that the average fuel efficiency of trade-ins was 15.8 mpg (miles per gallon), compared to 24.9 mpg for the new cars purchased to replace them, translating to a 58% fuel efficiency improvement.
I already know when they are going to raise rates. The week before my adjustable mortgage is recalculated in 2016. Because that is how luck works out. Funny story saying that. I got an adjustable rate 15 year loan when I refinanced for 3.75%. Going with an adjustable, the Credit Union ate the filing fees and saved me about $2000 in costs. If the rates jump the max they are allowed to, over the life of the loan, I break even off a fixed rate loan. The Prius V is looking like the winner. The only bad thing I hear about them is that if you load them full of gear and/or people they are hogs without a lot of power to spare. Then again I heard the same thing about the original Prius as well. I'm at that age where all I want a car to do is to go from A to B and save me money on insurance and gas. If I get the urge to drive something more exciting, I can rend something and go get it out of my system. I've never been in an Elise, but I have driven a Mazda RX8. I squeezed into the thing and about 20 minutes later realized I was doing 100MPH on a windy back-road, and if I got used to this I'd have to pay a few dozen speeding tickets a year.
Pretty much anything without a V8 is going to suffer under overloading and pretty much anything with a V8 is gonna get shitty gas mileage. I hope to never be "at that age." My daily driver is a dodge stealth in ticket-me red, and has been for... shit. 12 years now.
Oh neat. I have a PC that is worth more than most people's car. I also have optical gear worth more than most people's car come to think of it. I was never a car guy; I can appreciate the tech involved but never got into them for some reason.I hope to never be "at that age." My daily driver is a dodge stealth in ticket-me red, and has been for... shit. 12 years now.