Early 30s. Never driven an FL5 but ordered one based on the reviews. I'm looking for something that feels alive, but also has enough practicality that I can actually enjoy driving it regularly (rather than having it sit in the garage for weekends only). I had a 911 not long ago, so this car...
You can't really engineer a ton of different sounds out of a single port head turbocharged car. Can't play with cylinder pairings, lengths, merge collectors, etc.
I just got an email from a New England dealer that a "third wave" car would be arriving any day now, possibly today. Has anyone else heard anything similar? This would be ahead of schedule...
We have a sort of unspoken rule in the house--we take a lease rate for an entry level luxury car these days (~$500-600/month), and use that as a benchmark. We try to keep transaction and depreciation costs below that annually ($6-7K/year), so I try to buy cars that don't depreciate much and go...
Get offers from Carvana, CarMax, Shift, Vroom, Carfax, and leverage those. Depending on your state, sales tax savings will be no more than $2K, so don't be afraid to just sell elsewhere (rather than trading in).
I've been getting calls from dealers that all the "2nd wave" cars are arriving in NE. Might be some available if anyone is looking around and ready to drive somewhere stat.
Curious to hear what everyone else drove/is currently driving. Happy to start:
Former:
1999 Acura TL
2005 Saab 9-2X
2010 Civic Si Sedan
2008 Saab 9-3 6MT
2015 Accord V6 Coupe 6MT
2011 Civic Si Sedan
2018 Jetta SE 5MT
2017 911 Carrera GTS 7MT
2009 Mercedes CLK550
Current:
2006 S2000
2022 WRX...
Got a call from another NE dealer this morning that a car that showed as in production as of last week is in California now, so I can confirm what others are seeing.