Who here has the cheapest ride?

[Rhoxed]

1% for my daily driver car (86 grand marquis coupe - 61k miles)
14% for my 71 impala custom (79k miles)
2% for my commuter bicycle heh

 

[SP33Demon]

1.66%

 

[DominionSeraph]

I can't compete on % of income or on absolute value. So how about best deal?

17,800 miles at purchase (9/04). The dealership owner had taken it as his POV and he added a few things that aren't on that sticker: a GM Performance stainless exhaust with quad chrome tips (an especially nice upgrade as the stock tips are the ugliest things ever), bigger spoiler (stock is tiny and looks ridiculous on such a big car), and silver grille. So ~$1500 in quite worthwhile upgrades.
Still had half the bumper-to-bumper warranty, and the four year extended powertrain warranty I added for $730 ended up paying for itself twice over.

Heated leather, power sunroof, HUD, chrome 5 spokes, and it fit something I carried over from my previous vehicle:

 

[Baked]

39%. I think I'll just have it cleaned up when I have time. There are some minor cosmetic damages on the passenger side and front bumper. I also want to get a new set of rims for it. Also, lots of chili powder for cat deterrent.

 

[halik]

I can't compete on % of income or on absolute value. So how about best deal?

teh ugly

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

So now it's cool to drive crappy cars?

 

[LOL_Wut_Axel]

So now it's cool to drive crappy cars?

The Neon was a pretty darn great car, especially when it launched. It provided a lot more HP than the competition and was very reliable, not to mention it had great looks and features. The price was simply untouchable, too.

 

[DominionSeraph]

teh ugly

It was better looking than the WRX, whose MSRP for a stripped-down model was $6k more than what I paid. WRX has a majorly budget interior that's noisy as hell as well.

WRX will of course out-accelerate and out-corner the Grand Prix, but I'm not stuck at a measly 145MPH.

The Neon was a pretty darn great car, especially when it launched. It provided a lot more HP than the competition and was very reliable, not to mention it had great looks and features. The price was simply untouchable, too.

Yup, both my aunt and my older sister had one. Pretty zippy little cars and they were dirt cheap. The paint sucked and they tended to have head gasket problems, though.

 

[William Gaatjes]

I have my own transport and my own chauffeur.
But as social as i am, i let other people enter and hitch a ride as well. ()

 

[hanoverphist]

Income has everything to do with it. It's alot more interesting to see how much people spend on their cars when you normalize it over income.

not here. its not a realistic figure to me, since i paid half what BB value is. for all 3 of my vehicles, the numbers are skewed by reality. my motorcycle is .03%, car is 3.5" and truck is roughly 6% using your formula. but i spent much less on all 3, since i didnt pay bb value.

 

[Jeff7]

~1.8%.

 

[Crono]

62%

Going by retail value of car, since Kelley doesn't have 2012 vehicles listed in its calculator.

 

[ISAslot]

Got mine for free, 1987 Tercel

 

[brianmanahan]

%3

 

[lxskllr]

I don't know what my car's worth. Probably a few hundred $. It's a 97 Cherokee with dents in every piece of metal, and cracks in the plastic :^D

 

[zCypher]

too much, which is why i'm going to drive it till it dies. no other way to get the most out of it.

 

[xanis]

6%

 

[overst33r]

2 cars at 45%. both paid off though.

 

[Juked07]

If we still consider the car I drove before leaving home mine (3rd car at parents' house), ~1%

 

[Raduque]

My Altima was free, it's worth probably about $600-$1000. 1-2%?

My truck... I'm not going to go there. Don't want to think about it.

 

[Scouzer]

9.2%

 

[IGemini]

I can't give a current value since I'm still out of work, that whole divide by zero thing.

When I was working, it was around 30%. Been paid off for a while.

 

[Eli]

If I do all three of our cars and our combined income, it's 27%. All paid off though.

 

[dullard]

(Blue Book value of your car / Gross Yearly Income) * 100

My car works out to be 0.5% of my yearly income.

Your formula is incorrect. Why are you multiplying by 100? That makes no sense at all. Try multiplying by 100% instead.

(Blue Book value of your car / Gross Yearly Income) * 100% = 2.4% for me. That is, if you give it a generous value. It needs a new rear bumper and new struts, but runs great. Honda Civic.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

The Veyron 16.4, Grand Sport, or Super Sport? I want to know who I'm dealing with here.

The Super Sport of course


But seriously my current DD has a KBB of 14% of my salary, it was about 40% when I bought it new 5yrs ago. I buy em new and drive them until the wheels fall off, my previous car I drove for 11yrs and 288k miles. I like having no car payment