Brag or Beat: Just bought a 2007 Yaris

[Duke]

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Hey guids, the missing money is because I had to get automatic transmission. That was quite a bit. Also I didn't change the payments, I just reread the papers and found out they were different then I first said.

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OK, you probably should have just learned to drive a stick. Automatics break, too, and a clutch is an order of magnitude cheaper than an automatic transmission to replace.

My biggest regret ever involved not paying cash for a car. I hate the concept of payments, and would -only- make them if there was some ridiculously low interest rate that allowed me to make more in a CD or something. If I didn't have 100% of the purchase price at my disposal, I'd never even consider buying it. Never ever. I'd buy a cheap motorcycle until I had it.

But that's just me, and I not only hate car payments, but also hate every single monthly installment plan that companies love to stick us with. That's just me, and to each their own.

Do you like the car? If you do, then great. I hope you didn't get jacked on the interest rate too badly, and hope that you plan on driving the thing into the ground. That'll get your money's worth, at least. Cars are just something that a lot of people waste a bunch of money that they don't have on, and they end up getting married to a crappy job or whatever just to make those payments. I think that's the side that most of the negative responses are seeing, but they're choosing a pretty poor way of getting their point across.