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you said "improvement over your last car (gas-wise)" which is vague.If you had said "same financial improvement to keep up the exact need for the car" or something of the sort I can see how it might be as you state. We need to look at the original article to see what was meant

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Felix, thanks, "Maybe people don't give this answer because they have some kind of reality bias?"

That's basically what I was trying to say with my "Stupid Math Tricks" comment. When you are applying math to the real world, and you start getting zero or infinities for an answer, the more rational conclusion is that you've made some sort of mistake, not that everybody else is making one.

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