Comments on: Time for a New Car?

By: Rothgar

Rothgar — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:50:09 +0000

in the mean time, you may want to switch to full synthetic oil for your civic. I do my own oil changes and use Castrol GTX (used to use Royal Purple) and have noticed about a 10-15% increase in my gas milage. I have the same 2001 Civic Ex as you do and I regularly get ~32 mpg (the highest i ever got was 44 mpg on a road trip) Full synthetic also has the benefit of not needing an oil change as often (in the civic it is about 5000-6000 miles instead of 3000.
Personally I don’t think I would ever buy a car brand new and if I were buying from a dealer it would be in Q4 to get end of the year sales which are typically the best deals.
Good luck either way.

By: Krunk

Krunk — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:22:16 +0000

I never really believed in leasing. But leasing is is different from financing, which is what I’m probably going to end up doing.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:13:35 +0000

Wow, we have pretty much the same taste in cars, although I think the BMW 1-series are one of the ugliest cars on the road. It seems so ‘cheap’ in the design category compared to the 3/5/7-series.

I love the Audi A5; I think that’s the most beautiful car on the road for the price – the daytime running LED’s make any Audi stand out on the road. Same thing goes for the A4. (I’d pick up the V10 Audi R8 in a heartbeat if I had the money).

Have you thought about just leasing the car, instead of buying?