I could lease a hellcat for 2 years

"Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs" (yowen)
09/10/2014 at 16:25 • Filed to: None

If I were to trade in my SHO right now, this is roughly what it would cost me to lease a hellcat, lolzzz:

No way that I'm doing this though... I'd be back to square one at the end of 24 months. It would be a VERY fun 24 months, if I make it through 2 winters alive, here in Michigan.

DISCUSSION (39)

Alex B > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
09/10/2014 at 16:30

DO IT!

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
09/10/2014 at 16:30

see don't worry about square one, youd be dead and wrapped around a tree well before that.

Brian Silvestro > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
09/10/2014 at 16:31

Fuck. Yes.

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
09/10/2014 at 16:34

I love how signing a hellcat lease, provided it is your only means of transportation, is equal to signing away your life, literally.

But! At $67 a month I could afford another car payment for like a $10k-ish winter beater :D I'd still be very sad at the end of 2 years though >_<

ly2v8-Brian > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
09/10/2014 at 16:34

Why are you here and not getting one NOW!

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
09/10/2014 at 16:36

yeah you would, very very sad, or your family would be very very sad because you'd be dead.

Tohru > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
09/10/2014 at 16:44

A $10k car is not a fucking winter beater, unless you're Bill Gates. A winter beater is a sub-$2k car, usually a sub-$1k car.

Andrew T. Maness > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
09/10/2014 at 16:46

I'm going to have my S4 avant appraised at a Dodge dealer tomorrow...

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > Tohru
09/10/2014 at 16:48

Moving from a Taurus SHO a 10k car is by comparison a beater. But perhaps not by definition.

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > Andrew T. Maness
09/10/2014 at 16:50

For 4 years of tire shredding:

Kinja'd!!!

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
09/10/2014 at 16:50

For 4 years of tire shredding it's this much, still not bad:

Kinja'd!!!

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
09/10/2014 at 16:52

Oh man. Sometimes I wish we didn't live in Michigan. am I rite?

Tohru > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
09/10/2014 at 16:57

The most expensive vehicle I've owned was $6500 - the cheapest just $250. When you buy a running and driving car for scrap value, *that's* a winter beater.

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
09/10/2014 at 16:57

Haha yeah, I was just in St Louis and it didn't look half-bad down there ^_^, but Michigan has kept me around this long... B)

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > Tohru
09/10/2014 at 17:00

To some extent having a car for the sole purpose of driving it in winter makes it your winter beater, as it's a car bought for the purpose of preserving your nicer car.

But I can see how $10k is a bit steep for it to be considered as such. <$5k though? I think that's still acceptable beater territory.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
09/10/2014 at 17:00

I'm never leaving the automotive ad industry so....here I am!

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
09/10/2014 at 17:03

Haha, makes sense! You should step into a time capsule and make an ad for the Montego :D

I'm in supply chain mgmt/purchasing/logistics, so I can work ANYWHERE. It could potentially take me to automotive, I am currently in automation, so it wouldn't be a stretch, at all.

Andrew T. Maness > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
09/10/2014 at 17:04

Yeah, I've been on the configurator a couple times since it went up. I'm just thinking that maybe it'd be the best worst decision I've ever made.

Would be pretty rad to be the first Jalop to have one, especially since I'm only 28. I imagine it'd generate the angriest of angry comments in the history of Oppo.

Tohru > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
09/10/2014 at 17:43

A winter beater is something where it's cheap enough that you don't feel bad when the rust gets worse or if it gets dented. I sure don't make the money where I can feel that way even towards a $5k car.

These are winter beaters to me:

$1300 '04 CVPI - http://detroit.craigslist.org/okl/cto/462748…

$1000 '02 Cavalier - http://detroit.craigslist.org/okl/cto/466193…

$1300 Volvo 240 DL - http://detroit.craigslist.org/wyn/cto/466182…

ihm96 > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
09/10/2014 at 18:16

How do you like being in that field? I'm asking because I'm a college freshman in a business school with no idea of what major or job I plan on having in 4 years

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > ihm96
09/10/2014 at 18:48

dude, check out advertising it's awesome

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
09/10/2014 at 18:49

I wish I could that would be all kinds of cool, remind me tomorrow there's some crazy old ads of the Montego I can post, even matching color scheme!

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > ihm96
09/10/2014 at 18:52

I'm liking the field, there's a lot of different ways to go with it. Also, very importantly, I can't stress this enough, you will NOT have a hard time finding a job provided you have a decent GPA (above 3.0) and you've done at least one internship. At my school we had 100% job or grad school placement (mostly job).

I would really recommend talking to some well liked professors in the supply chain department at your school, that's how I got excited to major in it.

ihm96 > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
09/10/2014 at 19:45

I shall check it out. What kind of stuff does it entail? Do I need to be artistic and such because I most certainly am not that. (Should I start watching Mad Men and assume thats enough?)

ihm96 > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
09/10/2014 at 19:46

I will definitely look into that. Thanks for the help. What do you do in your current job, if you don't mind me asking?

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > ihm96
09/10/2014 at 19:49

haha, it doesn't quite work that way amymore lol

Advertising has tons of jobs in it. Look into account management (not sales, but interacting with clients).

We can chat more about it tomorrow.

ihm96 > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
09/10/2014 at 19:51

I know it doesn't I just wanted to make a joke haha. And it sounds interesting I'll definitely give it a look. At present I'm just taking intro classes so Bus 001 and Econ 001, that type of stuff and I have really no idea of what major I should choose so you guys are being very helpful!

ihm96 > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
09/10/2014 at 19:55

One question. Would advertising fall under Marketing, or should I be looking under a different category to find that type of major?

AthomSfere > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
09/10/2014 at 20:53

Hmm... Although with the way Dodges depreciate:

Trade in your Hellcat for another Hellcat fresh off lease. Payment goes up another $67 a month but now you own the second one ;)

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > ihm96
09/10/2014 at 20:57

I am currently in purchasing, it probably makes up about 50% of my job. The rest is arranging trucks for shipment of our product, dealing with RMA's and meeting with potential vendors.

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > AthomSfere
09/11/2014 at 08:17

Hahaha, good idea :D Even though it's kind of fucked up to put a $20k down payment/trade-in on a lease lol.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > ihm96
09/11/2014 at 09:08

The best plan is to get into a legit Advertising Major. I graduated from Michigan State which has one of the top 5 Adv programs in the country, which, thankfully they had a good program because I was originally there for the Marketing major. Advertising fell under the college of Communication Arts, not business though.

Where do you go to school?

ihm96 > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
09/11/2014 at 10:55

I'm a freshman at Lehigh and I'm in the college of business and economics and am still undecided on a major

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > ihm96
09/11/2014 at 10:59

Oh Lehigh, I thought about applying there, wanted something huge though lol.

A quick search tells me you'd have to go Marketing or Business Management there.

Though Penn State has an ADV program, though I doubt you'd want to transfer. If you're not going the creative route (art, digital, or writing), Marketing or Business Management may work out just find for you to get into an ad agency.

ihm96 > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
09/11/2014 at 11:09

Lehigh wasn't my first choice but I think it was a pretty awesome decision. They party like a top state school, but with great academics and its not too huge so you actually see people you know often which I like

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > ihm96
09/11/2014 at 11:30

I came from a pretty huge high school in NJ so I wanted good academics and a giant school. I also wanted sports I could watch on TV and go to a giant stadium.

my top 3 were Michigan State, Penn State, and UMass (obviously UMass was a step down in sports lol).

PSU and UMass wanted me to swim for them, and so did almost every small/private school in eastern Pennsylvania. As I was looking for Marketing, MSU's program was ranked in the top 20 in the country and PSU was back in the 40s. When I got into MSU it was a clear cut decision because of the Academics.

And after all that I switched to Advertising anyhow, which worked out, like I said - top 5 program.

My bit of advice I can really give you is to take it into your own hands. If you're interested in something GO AFTER IT. Took me longer than it should have to figure that out while at MSU. I got my own internship (school wasn't helping much, though in 05/06 there weren't a lot to be had due to economy) as a Sophomore and had another one within weeks of graduating. Those two internships got me in the door at Chevy's ad agency only 4 months after graduation.

I read something recently that was a perfect description of how to balance priorities in college. it was this:

Sleep more than you study, study more than you party, party as much as you possibly can.

Figure out that formula, and it'll all work out

William Byrd > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
09/11/2014 at 13:48

Do it. Write about it. You could be the next Doug DeMuro!

ihm96 > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
09/11/2014 at 14:51

Thats a good formula haha. I also applied to Penn State, and I got in, but didn't get in to their honors college so in the end I decided that Lehigh was the better fit for me socially and also academically. Plus Lehigh seems to have a very good alumni network which helps a lot of grads or students get internships and jobs. Oh, and the fact that the man behing the mustang went here is also kinda cool. Thanks for all the advice man

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > ihm96
09/11/2014 at 15:03

Anytime man, good luck.

Feel free to ask questions whenever you need to.