Need Some Honest Opinions

Honest opinions please.

Here is my dilemma. I just picked up a brand new car last month. Its a small 4 banger gas sipper, gets about 40MPG. Now, Ive been without a Tacoma for over a year now and Ive been getting along fine without one. So, after driving the new car around for less than a month Im regretting my decision. So your probably saying, "Why didn't your dumbass just buy a new Taco in the first place?" Well gas here is about $4.30 a gallon. and a 40MPG car is way more easy on the wallet then a 19MPG Taco.

Im kicking around the idea of selling my brand new and getting a new Tacoma. Ill know Im gonna lose at least $1700 if I sell the car.

You guys think its worth it? Or do I just keep the car and see what the 2016 Tacoma will bring? Keep in mind my monthly budget will only let me have one vehicle.

 

stick with the car and if you ever feel the need to be in a taco go down to the dealer and go take a drive around town test driving it. lol

I hear ya though…4.39 a gallon and I doubt if it will go down.

 

Chances are you could sell your car and in 6 months think dang....I wish I had a small car that got good gas mileage. If you don't need a truck I would stick with the car until your financial situation changes.

 

^^^^^^ what he said.

 

I'm with everyone else on here man. Stick with your car for now and save up...later down the road if you need a Taco then see what's on the market and make a move.

I had a little yaris up until last year before I got my taco. It was an awesome gas saver, but then I needed something safer and that had little more power and room.

I saved up for a while to get my Taco. But if you don't need one right now I'd stick with the gas saver.

 

^ That is what I was thinking. If you can just chill and deal with it for a couple of years, maybe even could keep the small car depending and get a Tacoma. I know it must be hard because Tacomas are awesome and you feel left out and probably want one to start modding and being cool like us. But that makes financial sense. With all the driving and exploring around I do, I end up spending close to another car payment on gas.

 

Keep the car, save money. One should never put themselves in a situation where they're a slave to car payments or expenses. Cutting the budget that close is just stressful anyway.

It's always important to honestly define your needs, wants and realities.

 

Screw that, if you want the truck, get the truck. We've all made bad choices, lesson learned, move on...

 

What they said, except for what ^^^^^ he said

 

I think if he had the money he wouldn't have bought a new car that got fucktons of MPGs because of gas cost, which is a constant consumable to drive. If he couldn't afford or wouldn't justify buying a new car that got crappy mileage, why get one anyway and then be hurting for it? $1700 he'll lose on his other new car is a lot of gas money for a car that gets 40 MPG, and maybe 6k miles worth of gas in a Tacoma.

Spent the money already, I'd not add insult to injury if your wallet is strapped so hard to begin with, throwing away $2k AND getting less gas mileage with a more expensive car makes no sense if you're in the situation to buy a cheap gas sipper to begin with over gas prices which are always fluctuating.

If gas went from $4.39 to $6.39 it'd be different, but 30 cents a gallon of fluctuation over a year causes you to buy a commuter car? That's $3 extra per fill up!

 

I'd say sit down and really think your options through. Do you NEED a truck ? Do you haul anything around ? Or if you need a truck..can you borrow someone's to move what needs to be moved ? Do you off road ( or..would you if you had the truck ? )? Do you tow anything that needs a truck ( I see people that pull jetskis and snowmobile trailers with a car ).Those would be the variables to consider if you're really thinking about it. If money is tight,then getting the new truck might not be a good idea. You'd lose on the car,have a higher payment and less gas mileage,and I'm guessing higher insurance as well.

My $.02 .

 

In comparison, yes, but I was more pointing out that with the car he just bought (assuming it's a normal-ish 10 gallon fuel ups with a 12 gallon tank) that he can drive for a year and the difference from his cheap tank to his expensive tank is going to be $3 +/- in cost. Not so much with a Tacoma that he can't afford to fill up or doesn't want to pay to fill up.

If my financial picture pushed me to buy a brand new car to get better MPGs then I likely can't afford a gas chugging truck even if that's what I'd rather drive. Since he already bought the new car, he'd be smarter to keep it instead of flipping it at a loss and save the extra cash and put it in the bank, then later on if he wants to sell after he's made some payments and gotten ahead financially then he'll have a bigger bank account, less financial risk to sell/trade in his new car, and that's a win/win instead of an instant lose/lose/lose

 

^^^^what he said.

 

He's on a Tacoma forum asking if he should trade in his commuter for a truck. He wants to hear yes, but his wallet answered his question when he signed the papers on whatever his 40MPG car is, right?

 

Exactly

 

Thanks for everyone's insight. A lot of good pointers.
I guess the buyers remorse is kicking in.

 

If you can afford it and you're miserable then get rid of it. If you can't afford to, then you can't afford to. Keep it a couple years and save your coin and reapproach later on, then you'll hopefully be ahead on the financing side and can trade in with positive equity or sell it and get something you really want.

 

^^^agree. If you can't afford it right now man save up for later down the road the wait will be worth it.

 

^^^ What did he say, if what he said was ^^^what he said?

I like what he said ^

 

It's only logical to get something that would be good on gas they way prices are nowadays but I can understand that you're not happy driving what you have now instead of what you really wanted. Think about your decisions carefully, run the numbers, do the math. If your budget allows for it, get what you can afford that you are happy with as you will be the one making the payments.