EvilKyote

Get the car and live it it!!! it has reclining seats! ther you go! and you will have the advantage that if you don't like your neighbours, just drive elsewhere!

timbo2000

I went for the car 3 years ago. No regrets! I have a flexible mortgage so I make overpayments - hence the car will be paid for well before I have to worry about racking up loads of interest.

Besides, the payments I make now are actually less than before I bought it - it's like having a scoob for free!

pblakeway

You can live in your car, but you cant drive your house

kevin stanton

pay off the mortgage, then the money that would have paid that every month would now pay the sti8 car loan.
sorted.

David_Wallis

House.

jadcoz

i would have to say get the sti! reasoning? simple..... get the sti , have a fantastic 1 or 2 years , then you can you had one of the fastest cars on the market that few could rival , then maybe see a little sense and let the scooby go , ok fine you have lost a few thousand on your purchase but hey - if logic and money came into it this web site would be like an iraqi palace - beautiful to look at but not a sole in site!

wrightylee

I've just come back from a cross country blast in my STI8 with a bloody great big smile - it's one amazing bit of kit. Sod the mortgage, just buy the flippin car!

chrisp

Funny thing is you southerns pay 300K for a telephone box these days. You can buy half a county up here with thats sort of money and its full of friendly northern folk .

Seriously if you pay off your mortgage what will happen then. Trust me your missus will want a bigger house or a foreign holiday home .

Echo

I'd get rid of the mortgage and take out a loan for the car with full redundancy protection etc :-)

Mike

Stevie

Unless of course the interest rate on your mortgage is lower than the car finance(and it ought to be), at which point financing the car is going to cost you more money!! Not taking depreciation into account, purely interest rates.

DJB

Just to break the trend, I say get the car.

Ok in purely financial terms you'll save a fortune by paying off the mortgage early but so what. What are you going to do with the money after the mortgage is paid off - maybe buy an STi8?
You could be run over by a bus tomorrow - live a little, get it now.

D.

[Edited by DJB - 4/9/2003 10:42:59 PM]

Dave T-S

Since we seem to be running a parallel "my mortgage is bigger than yours" thread here, ours is £300,000 plus....

I might not be paying it off for a while yet

[Edited by Dave T-S - 4/11/2003 1:35:20 PM]