fuuuuuuck no. That Salesman was just trying to get you to buy a more expensive car. Buy any car you want, age is but a number.

Best friend’s wife:
“I’m not a car person, but I think I want to have sex with your car.”

if he has any CC debt, pay that off first, its almost certainly at a higher interest rate than the car loan. then if his car loan is the highest remaining interest rate of all his debts dump the remainder of his cash into that.

The issue isn’t 10 gears. The issue is shit programming. You could make a 100 gear transmission glorious with the right programming. Or it could be an absolute shit pile.

It’s complete BS. I was getting compliments on my visually stock e46 ZHP right up to the day I sold it in 2022.