Jeez I make 1000 a paycheck, have my S paid off, and am consider buying JUST a beater Fit! So, no, save the money.

 

To say bluntly what others have been hinting at: a $45k car is still way too expensive for your income. When I first graduated from college, I made roughly double what you do now and still found making payments on my $20k car pretty uncomfortable at times. I now make many, many times that and while I easily make payments on my $30k car, I still often wonder if it's too extravagant.

 

ok ok I get the point people LOL so is it ok if i buy a fit a USED fit at least NEXT year when I pay off my car? Trust me I would go for a house next but like I said with the military its just to hard. I am from california I am stuck in delaware who knows where I will go next. I can just keep my s2000 and buy a fit and be happy with that if thats ok with all of you?

 

Hey we're not your parents, but YOU asked our opinions.

And as someone who has been on a budget as tight as yours and now owns an RS4 (and a house), I thought it would be an opinion you could use.

But apparently, you didn't really want our opinions.

Actually, opinion. Everyone agrees you're smoking crack.

 

Dude, cut him a break

It hurts to have your dreams squashed with a dose or reality. I think he'll figure it out.

I pout anytime anyone tells me no despite the reality of a situation. The purchase of cars is a very emotional thing to a car nut. You know that I plan to buy a totally expensive and useless automobile at the end of this year. Of course I can afford it, but a sensible person would take the money and invest it.

Oftentimes sensibility goes out of the window.

 

[QUOTE=s2000raj,Jan 11 2008, 10:29 PM] Dude, cut him a break

 

But like I said, I blame the media for causing unrest in the minds of today's youth. Rather than being thankful and enjoying the blessings they have, they lust after things that are complete pipe dreams and live in a state of materialistic discontent.

Doesn't help when images of Paris Hilton's naked beaver in an SLR McLaren are plastered across the Interweb...

 

Link to said beaver shots?

And to the OP, hang onto the S. I can tell you it's amazing for what it is. I sold mine roughly 9 months ago, bought my M3 a few months later. The M3 is an amazing car, faster, more practical, more comfortable, more...damn near everything. And yet I miss the S, not just for driving satisfaction (the S wins that IMO) but also ease of mind. I can afford the payments on the M, but I was happier making the payments on the S. Does that make any sense at all?

I'm kind of (but not really) in the same boat as you, I'm in the golf business, so I move every 6 months. Granted, it's MY choice where, but it's still a move, sometimes a pretty damn big one and I don't make enough money to buy a home at ANY of the places I live, let alone several or all of them.

There's definitely a line for each person on how much they want to sacrifice to drive the car they want to drive, and no one can tell you where that line is. Thing is, pretty much every person who has posted on this thread is a car enthusiast through and through, and I'm willing to bet that their "line" is much higher than the average person's, and their still saying watch where you set yours.

Just some food for thought. Who knows, maybe you'd love a Vette or 911 enough that shortchanging the other aspects of your life would be worth it. I can tell you, it wouldn't for me (even though I had damn near convinced myself it would at one point).

 

I appreciate everyones help and you have all helped me out i will just appreciate what i have and realize there is more important things in life

 

CKit -> that pic is very misleading. No SLR and no beaver... very disappointing...

To the OP, I would agree with others here. Hang on and build some more income/equity before stretching yourself on a car purchase.