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A wise decision (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/funny@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (15 children)

lol these are only like 30k new.

If that was a financial mistake, perhaps the plate should stay "STILLPOOR".

This, I should mention, is coming from someone who has never had $30k in his life and drives an older model of one of these cars (which i fucking love, btw).

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's not that the car is relatively affordable that has made him poor, it's the mods. I've seen people spend multiple times the MSRP of a car in mods alone, which is a poor decision to do with this car because it's entire purpose was to be an affordable sports car.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I managed to get mine on height adjustable coil-overs and aftermarket wheels without breaking the bank, but yeah, I've seen some folks that do pour money into engines and cosmetics. Fair point lol

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Also, this was the original which was sold by the now-dead Scion brand. This could be as old as a 2012 model. I suppose at that age, throwing money at it could be well described as a financial mistake.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I own a 2013 FR-S.

    Unless this is rebadged, idt they were sold under the Toyota brand in the US until I think 2016. I could be wrong, of course, but this looks newer.

    Regardless, outside of whatever mods they've got, mine is as old as they get and has no problems at all (other than the damn door checks lol), so age alone isn't a reason to throw money at it.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I am so thankful for the FR-S. I have a 2015 Scion tC, and when the FR-S dropped Scion updated the design language of the gen 2 tC (2011-2013) to the gen 2.5 (2014-2016) to copy some of the language of the FR-S, and it looks SO MUCH BETTER.

    (Such a fun little car. Not as much fun as the FR-S, I’m sure, but a 2-door Corolla with a Camry/RAV-4 engine and a six-speed manual transmission is a blast, let me tell you.)

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    tCs are super cool too! I looked at a couple when I was shopping around, but I wanted rear wheel drive.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    "Only 30k"!?

    You're fucking joking, right? Twenty years ago a $30,000 car was expensive and unobtainable for me, and it still is today. I can only dream of owning a car that expensive. My budget has never been above $10K, and that's why I drive a 350Z.

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