Have you got a price ceiling?

[Nardi330]

Originally Posted by sticky

pretty sure you guys would have heard about the mazda and alfa collaboration...

but it's only a 2 seater....

[Gir]

Originally Posted by davey90

How so...? o.O

You're young, still live with parents, and are about to dump your life savings on a car. It's a deprecating asset, so you're basically throwing that money away.

I'm a couple of years older than you, I also live with my parents, but that's because I'm saving 500 a week to buy a house. I have the savings to buy a GTS outright (assuming reasonable price), but I'm buying a GT on loan to get credit rating and because I can keep my saving rate while paying the loan off.

[sticky]

Originally Posted by davey90

How so...? o.O

well sounds like your going to be taking out a 10k loan - if you've got a stable job that pays decent I say go for it - your only young once. unfortuneately at your age i was still a poor uni student

Originally Posted by Nardi330

but it's only a 2 seater....

yes yes - i doubt most 86/brz buyers will be making use of their back seats often though.

Originally Posted by Gir

I'm saving 500 a week to buy a house.

at the rate the market is going - houses are also a depreciating asset :p

[Skorov]

Originally Posted by Gir

You're young, still live with parents, and are about to dump your life savings on a car. It's a deprecating asset, so you're basically throwing that money away.

I'm a couple of years older than you, I also live with my parents, but that's because I'm saving 500 a week to buy a house. I have the savings to buy a GTS outright (assuming reasonable price), but I'm buying a GT on loan to get credit rating and because I can keep my saving rate while paying the loan off.

Those are all good points. I'm in a similar situation to davey. Doesn't the "fuck it! Do it while you're young" factor come in to play at all here? It certainly does for me.

[Nardi330]

Originally Posted by sticky

yes yes - i doubt most 86/brz buyers will be making use of their back seats often though.

i have got kids i need to carry around in some occasions and surely there are a few others in the same boat.

for us, 86 will be fine but mx5 wont. i had to sell my Mx5 for this reason.

[Nafe]

There isn’t anything comparable to this for $40k new. No light weight, RWD sports coupes. At all.
Maybe some sport FWD’s.
And in regards to value against a WRX.. It’s a totally different car. I have no want of AWD turbo, high centre of gravity sedan. If this car was $50k I wouldn’t buy a WRX. Again, comes down to your wants.

As to a price cap... I dunno. I keep telling myself $35k, but we will see. I won’t spend above $40k. And that has nothing to do with the WRX pricing :P

[Gir]

Originally Posted by Skorov

Those are all good points. I'm in a similar situation to davey. Doesn't the "fuck it! Do it while you're young" factor come in to play at all here? It certainly does for me.

I understand that, and I've done it a lot myself. But this is where "buyers remorse" comes from.

Also remember that a couple of years is a short amount of time, and you'll still be young.

[Skorov]

Originally Posted by Gir

I understand that, and I've done it a lot myself. But this is where "buyers remorse" comes from.

Also remember that a couple of years is a short amount of time, and you'll still be young.

Cool cool. A lot of other people have told me the same thing. And it is good advice. Anyone in a similar position should definitely have a long hard think about whether it's worth it for them.

[davey90]

Originally Posted by Gir

I understand that, and I've done it a lot myself. But this is where "buyers remorse" comes from.

Also remember that a couple of years is a short amount of time, and you'll still be young.

yeah... I know where you're coming from,the amount of money I can pull out now is better on a house then on a car then again, houses can also be a deprecating value. Credit ratings? check! my credit ratings are pretty stable, so this new loan will add on =P.

Originally Posted by sticky

well sounds like your going to be taking out a 10k loan - if you've got a stable job that pays decent I say go for it - your only young once. unfortuneately at your age i was still a poor uni student

Yup! my job is paying pretty decent and i'm going for this car!

[Ballsak2nv]

If i decide to buy my price cap is $33k for the GT.

Not really interested in the GTS but if it was around 36k on road i would consider it.

Nearly brought 2 other cars but the sales fell thru, and with this 3-4th july thingy happening ill wait now.

[JiB]

Ok... so i have looked through these posts. You guys are dedicated fans of 86, toyota's market.

(all prices for car i have changed to gt model (people that said gts i took 4k off))

Now 12 people gave a ceiling, 4 people were $40k or above.
Now lets say the Cost of the car was $25k (toyota austs cost)
and they chose to sell the car for 40k they would sell 4 of them to us, 8 would say no way. "profit" of 15k per sale = 60k
if they chose to sell it at the lowest price ceiling here. 33k they would sell 12 cars @ a "profit" of 8k per car= 96k profit...

now "profit" was clearly an indication on not a number...

what do u guys think ?

[pr0j]

I like where you are going with this. 40k for me is absolute maximum, and even then i may decide later that it is too much.

[Nardi330]

If its too exxy, I might buy a scirocco r, keep it for 3 years then buy a used 86 or new facelifted 86. By then there will be discount!!

[blags]

I haven't decided on which model I want yet, I guess it depends on price.
If GTS is less than $38k that's what ill be going for, otherwise GT for me which I'm expecting to be about $33-35k