It will be fun, get great mileage, 4 doors, and the insurance so far is reasonable. Your not being irresponsible at all. I say do it if you can. You only live once.
Yea i say that because I am a college student working full time w/ about 3k in negative equity on my 16 coupe.... Thinking about leasing one but we will see. It truly is between a gti or type R
This sounds like a terrible financial decision. Are you planning on rolling negative equity from your 16 coupe into a gti or typ R ? Beyond the ADM you will have another 3k tacked on to a depreciating asset.
little college debt because it is being paid for by my job. Also yes I did plan on rolling it into the Type R. However there are plenty around me going for MSRP. I have a list of about 5 dealers who are selling for MSRP. I will break even on my civic by summer next year if I keep paying extra like I have. I just struggle with patience.. especially with the idea of only paying more to be upside down again.. ya know? I like the type R and all it stands for, the GTI is the only other hatch with all the things I am wanting in a car.
Some people are in it for a lot more.
Yup sounds like a terrible idea. Sell the civic you have now in a year or so when you are not upside down and can make a profit (hopefully). I've rolled negative equity from an old accord I had that I was upside down on into a cr-z. Needless to say I lost my shorts on that deal ! Never again.
just because some people are in it for a lot more, doesn't make it a good idea.
Honestly depends on the car. Should you be driving around in a car with sports / summer tires - no most likely not. Can you ? Yes IMHO. The type R's mechanical diff will help greatly i imagine. Plus being fwd and having all that weight over the front tires = alot less likely to spin out - as long as you don't drive like an idiot once the snow starts hitting the ground (and sticking) haha. Right now it's still too warm - at least at lower elevation.
Our tires are horrible for winter driving, like "you're going to hit something in the first few feet" level horrible.
Yes, the C7 Z06 is one of the few cars under $100k that can beat it. Corvettes are very fast on the track. There are probably others, but it's a short list, and definitely nothing close to the MSRP of the Type-R.
I think you underestimate how useless full summer only tires are in the snow, and even how much their grip drops in just cold wet conditions like we have today. The soft compound gets hard and the grip goes to basically zero on snow. Even when I had an Evo VIII on 9 MR wheels and summer tires, that was useless in the snow.
