What kind of car do you drive? Whats your career? (Medical Field)

Yes, you need to make the right choice now and understand what kind of medicine you want to give preference. I can say it’s really difficult.

Retired lawyer. Fairly heavily customized 2000 BMW M3.

Human Resources. 2015 Hyundai Sonata. Great car and 5 grand cheaper than Honda.

Young and Reckless wrote:

Im about to graduate high school in May and go off to college. I have alot of interest in a lot of careers in the medical field but I have no idea what I want to major in college. Hopefully one of you on here have one of the careers im interested. Im asking what kind of car you drive because one of my goals in the future is to drive a high performance sports car. Something like a Porshe, Corvette, or a GT500 mustang.

1998 Honda Accord. Family Practitioner here.

Young and Reckless wrote:

Your wrong about the public school thing. If I went to my home school I wouldnt be taking the bus I would walk there. I take the bus way across town to a private school which I got into on scholarship by my academics and test scores so I work to get my A's. And I already been taking college courses and Ap classes.

Holy $hit, is this the type of writing that warrants an "A" these days?

Intellectual Property and Technology lawyer

Do very, very well financially (invest well too).

35 years distant from Div 1 scholarship track career.

I never spend more than 25k on a car, and only, Dave Ramsey style, pay in cash. My current vehicle is a 2014 Buick Lacrosse hybrid - certainly not speedy but spacious and with a nice interior with some toys - and so far - reliable. Purchased the car at Carmax with 17k miles on it for 21k. This is the way I roll with cars, and I can't imagine the need for a new BMW, etc.

Sports cars are indeed fun to drive, but are limited in their utility and space the aura wears off quickly.

Two daughters are now grown and through expensive universities (definitely not a Dave Ramsey play) and they received low mileage CarMax vehicles to drive. Oldest one is a young physician now and drives a Suburu Forester.

I understand Carmax gets a premium for their cars - and perhaps not the best value. But I like them because my system with them keeps me in acceptable vehicles without breaking the bank.

I work in Strategy and Corporate Development for a Healthcare Technology and Services company. That means my role is to help grow our business by identifying strategic targets for acquisition, running the deal process from sourcing to closure, and overseeing the early stages of post-acquisition integration. I'm also a big car enthusiast. I daily drive a Porsche 911 Carrera, and have a Spec Miata race car for the track. Beyond the driving, I also love tinkering with cars. I built the race car myself and do most of the maintenance on the Porsche as well.

Doctor here, married to another doctor. In late 30s, loans paid off. Combined salary about 500. Drive a 2013 Subaru Forester, paid cash - got it new for 22500 through executive pricing program through a family friend. Wife drives a 2006 Camry.

In the town we live in I routinely see people driving new Infiniti SUVs, BMWs etc. I know these people are probably not making more then 150K a year, don’t understand how they can afford them.

Occupational therapist: 2010 Honda Insight. It's a good car for the home health coverage days.

I drive an Audi S7 or a Toyota 4Runner, depending on what's going on.

TV Broadcast industry , drive a Land Rover Discovery. I’m a fan of fake news for ratings.

Mercedes CLS550 and GLS450. Once you go German you never go back.

Oh, and I'm in Finance. Won't say more.

McFlounder wrote:

2012 GMC Yukon XLT - IS System Manager at a major semiconductor company.

*A co-worker in my office went through the same performance car phase - he had a custom Mustang, got a lot of speeding tickets then bought a Jeep Grand Cherokee for its practicality and drove it for 12 years. He just bought a Ford F150, because it is practical for him.

I have never been a "car guy" but I do like the Yukon XLT.

...about all these rides...

Why do you guys go so gaga over pickups and SUVs? OK, the example mentioned above, driving a Cherokee for 12 years, that can be argued as practical, and I guess it's OK if people keep these kinds of vehicles that long...but have always wondered why so many would pay so much and/or take on high payments for such a long time on vehicles like those...especially now that prices are going up and up...

I cannot conceive of spending that much on a car... I have a 10-yr old KIA Morning subcompact, bought lightly used almost 6 years ago (with 30k km on it) - maybe it's because I live in a big city in Asia, but no payments, half price tolls, parking and taxes, lovingly and cheaply maintained = no brainer (qualifiers - no regular commute, no kids, no crazy long drives, not young and no middle-aged sexually inadequate compensating going on) - and I would buy one again

Question - given the benefits above, and especially given how maintenance costs are so high in NA, why don't more people go lower-end if they have the choice in their circumstances (and are fine with driving a vehicle with power that falls somewhere between a lawnmower and a hamster wheel.) They don't even sell the car I have in NA

Collector wrote:

This AM I drove a 1964 Austin Healy Sprite w/ 77K one owner miles because the weather is not too bad and I'm putting it up for the winter. My 1968 GT500 is a bad color, lt blue, black interior and is the only mustang in the collection right now. There is also a Falcon Futura and a Taurus SHO in the garage. Daily driver is a 2004 Expedition.

'Retired' from the car rental industry.

A Healy guy!!!! Alright! My pops had a '58 and '56 when I was a kid. Sold them for 40s Ford wooden station wagons.

OP:

...I work in experiential automotive marketing (auto shows, large public events with vehicles on display). I have several cars between my wife and I:

-Suburban (my wife's daily)

-20 year old GMC Sierra (great truck!200k+ Miles and in great shape!)

-Scion xB

-Winnebago

-Old 50's truck

A little help. I don't live in a big city in Asia. I live outside of suburbia in Colorado. We get snow, sometimes feet of snow. I have to be able to get to and from work in snow storms and occasionally "rescue" my wife and mother. There are fires (more on that later). There are no bus/public transportation options for me. I do outdoor things with my wife and 3 hunting dogs. To get everything / everyone in requires a large vehicle. We have had several large grass/brush fires near our place - and needed to be ready to evacuate. Loaded up dogs and people into the Yukon and were ready to leave. We drove the Yukon till the wheels fell off or actually, stopped turning (front differential went out) and put 205k miles on it. When it died, we bought a 2016 Ford Explorer XL(?) smaller than the Yukon, but still big and has 4WD. It is nearly perfect for our lifestyle. We'll probably get a commuter vehicle, like a Subaru Crosstrek - better fuel economy but still able to handle the snow. There are a lot of people with SUVs and big trucks that really dont need or use them for their intended purpose. The same goes for sports cars ... it might be great that they can cruise at 120MPH, but how practical is that when stuck in traffic?

Science professor at a public university. I, too, drive a Yaris. Would rather spend my money on travel and other fun.

Hays N. Berg wrote:

Pontiac Aztek

high school chemistry teacher

Didn't you get a black Chrysler 300 recently?

I'm an electrical engineer in the silicon valley. Drive a 2013 Nissan Xterra Pro4X. Bought it used in 2014 and have mod'd it for off-road travel. Not into rock crawling but using it to get places others can't get too easily. I also use it for my daily 8 mile commute. Wife's a photographer (one of the reasons we travel all over the backroads of the West in that Xterra). She drives a 2003 Lexus LS430. Bought it brand new in 2003 for $60K+. She's still very happy with it and will likely drive it another 5 to 10 years. I do all of the maintenance on my cars so that is not such a big expense for us. I enjoy it. Oh, paid cash for both cars.

My ride is a 1968 BART (light gray).

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