03wrx

What would actually make you entitiled for a 'staff' discount, if you are not an employee ? Is having a mate work at Ford enough or a family member ? To me staff means you are an employee.

that looks excellent, but the ford badge ruins it.

Being completely logical and not emotional, if your priority is to drop your home loan, then I would sell the FG. Rather than paying the bank each month on car repayments, you can put this into the home loan. Regarding a car, I wouldnt buy a another xr6t, but a much cheaper car you can pay cash for. I would contemplate another xr6t once your home loan is way down. Im not sure of the logic people are saying to hold onto it for 2-4 years. The more Km's its done and the older it is, the less it will be worth. Also in the meantime, you will be paying interest on the car, and greater interest on the home, which both suck peoples savings. this is especially true for people who are on a fixed income. if you own the Fg outright, then sell it, get the cash and dump it into the home loan. once again buy a cheap/ economical car and wait until the mortgage is very low, and then purchase your toy. It really is not a time to take risks. Once unemployment gets up a bit, many people will stop spending on luxury items.

Just on the side. A mate of mine did what you are thinking of doing. Went from 'endless' fuel to a novated lease on a much nicer car and factored in fuel. He was miles off with the fuel estimate. The fuel costs plus the lease repayments just sucked up his savings. he ended up selling the nicer car after 12 months, and went back to how it was before. With your calculations, maybe take a worst case figure of approx 30L/ 100km (approx 30% more than the xr6t), and do your sums with a higher than normal price for fuel.

Go to the LS1 forum. The editor of motor posted on the site letting forum members know that they did a review on the W427. I don't know about them being biased, because they gave the editor a serious bagging about how crap they thought the magazine was. Especially regarding one of the journo's, I think his name was morbidity?

I just posted on your thread on rexnet I am currently in a 250awkw 03 wrx. I wouldn't be buying any car that I have not driven, and would be better to hold on for a bit longer. I am a bit tired of the lack of torque in the rex. I have a feeling the F6 in auto will fix this problem. The tests I have read so far on the F6 have been auto and non have knocked it.