Coffee Brake: Why I Will (Probably) Never Buy A New Car Again

by DT Editor-in-Chief Vince: I guess at the heart of the matter, I might be cheapskate.  It isn't that I'm hoarding my cash with a plan to retire to Fiji when I'm 40. Not at all, I'd miss my wife and kids.  My reasons for not wanting to buy a new car go beyond a simple desire to not hemorrhage greenbacks.  It is more about the subtlety of value.  Let me give a simple analogy -- it is tempting to head to your local magazine rack and pick up a copy of Road and Driver for $4.95 -- but you can get a dozen shipped to your home for $10 over the course of a year...and that is money in the bank.

New Car Tuesday: 2015 Mini Cooper S

We've done a few "new" car reviews over the years on DT and I've been struggling to find a regular feature for the Tuesday 10:30am PST spot...so welcome to New Car Tuesday.  The thing I don't want to do is just parrot the opinions of other folks around the web, so my promise is that any new car review will be based on an experience driving a new car.  These won't be press cars (ha!), so they will be cars driven at the dealer lot or from friends.  First up, is the 2015 Mini Cooper S hardtop starting at $24,100 available at your local Mini dealer.