Honda or Muscle car
#31
RE: Honda or Muscle car
ORIGINAL: SevenKRedline
Insurance will destroy you!
Insurance will destroy you!
I bought my first bike (97 YZF 750) at 17 years of age and paid around $450 per month. Moved up to an 03 R6 at 19 and paid a little bit more. However, now that Im almost 23 with an imacculate record, I only pay $180 for full coverage on the 06 R6.
Stick with the civic, IMO. Great gas mileage, decent power, and insurance rates are much lower. Especially with a sedan.
I also went from spending about $70/wk on gas commuting (15MPG Jeep) to spending about $30/wk on gas (35MPG Civic). That's over $120/month shaved from mostly just my commute. I drive a lot more than just my commute, so I save considerably more by using the Jeep only sporadically. A stock auto Civic EASILY out-corners and out-accelerates a stock 5spd Wrangler from 30-85MPH, and many other vehicles too. I haven't seen a street-legal car yet, blown and gassed 5.0 or otherwise, that couldn't be beat on the street by something that "isn't quite legal", so put the thoughts of running 6-second 1/4s in a reliable grocery-gitter out of your head. Reliability is sacrificed when you run high boost and nitrous with the pedal through the floor. Competitive dragracers rebuild a LOT of stuff, a LOT of times.
If you take anything from this post...please, PLEASE keep racing to the track. Time and time again I have seen way too many younger adults act a fool on the streets and get themselves killed, or even worse, someone else. I for one could never forgive myself if I killed an innocent family on the road. Be responsible and do whats right.
Even in less serious circumstances, you typically do less damage by sliding over cones on a closed course than by sliding into trees, curbs, fences, parked cars, etc. on public roads. The law, your insurance, your finances, the general public, etc. really appreciate this. If you want thrills on wheels or bragging rights, take a bike to a legal offroad track or trail. You could loft 20ft doubles, blast corners sideways, or just putter down steep canyons with a view...without Johnny Law or John Q. Lawsuit-Happy Public raising an issue.
#32
RE: Honda or Muscle car
Not to start anything but if you read what 210Stang said he only got 3 to 5grand to Spend?? and this is going to be he's 1st Car so lets just all be Practical.. what im trying to say is if you got lots of $$$$$ its realy easy to get a Fast Civic or a Fast Muscle car but i if your living on a week by week paycheck thats a hard thing to do... so what im saying is Get a good decent Car and work on it and just get what you really like and wanted dont go by what others said get the one that can make you Happy.
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