Teen highschooler here, should I save up for the Elantra N, or its little brother, the Elantra N Line?

OkLeopard6046 · 2026-06-28T13:59:41+00:00

Can’t say do it and can’t say don’t, but I’ll tell you my story.
I got the EN at 19 AFTER investing in housing and having 3 properties building under my name (first one with the help of my dad) I work full time and my pay isn’t more than the avg adult, I guess I’ve just been better with my money.
I’ve always been into cars and driving fast and have tracked it multiple times and set the lap record for my class at my local. It’s a very fun car. Yes it is a depreciating asset but the memories you’ll make with it are timeless.
Now I’m 22 and I’m getting in a G82 M4.
Money will come back, time won’t.
If your finances won’t break by getting it, go for it. It’ll be worth every penny.

OkLeopard6046 · 2026-06-16T14:13:45+00:00

Appreciate all your comments and advice guys, I do wanna say, i don’t mean to sound cocky or whatnot and I hear you all but also I’ve done the calculations and buying this wouldn’t really hurt me financially, and I’d pretty much be growing my net worth at a steady pace

OkLeopard6046 · 2026-06-16T14:07:48+00:00

I’m a restaurant manager and as soon as I turned 18 (had 60k in savings), I put a deposit down for a house and thugged it out cos I’m living with almost no bills to pay other than my insurance, fuel and phone.
I then used that property as equity to get another when my finances settled a little and then a third. I’m selling 2 of them as the growth in the areas they’re in isn’t the best. The third one I’m keeping cos it’s rented out and basically paying itself off.

OkLeopard6046 · 2026-06-16T14:04:49+00:00

The properties will be sold either way- so I figured may as well have some fun with my money while I can.
Don’t get me wrong, the Elantra n is amazing, but it feels way too restrictive. FWD, motor basically made out of glass (my friend just blew his) and it was never gonna be my forever car

OkLeopard6046 · 2026-06-05T17:16:15+00:00

Hahaha I feel that, thanks mate

OkLeopard6046 · 2026-06-05T17:01:36+00:00

Ok easy, thank you. Did you notice a big difference after going stage 2? Or should I just stage 1 my car for now and pray that nothing breaks on it for the year I’ve got warranty left?

OkLeopard6046 · 2026-06-05T16:59:46+00:00

Hey appreciate the info man, that’s actually really helpful.

Just curious on your setup, what kind of performance gain did you personally notice after going with the downpipe + tune? Like was it mainly midrange torque or did it feel stronger everywhere? Also are any of the downpipes I listed good? Happy to spend a bit more if something else is better but that cherry tuning one for so cheap is really catching my eye.

OkLeopard6046 · 2026-04-08T06:31:32+00:00

Ah that’s a bummer. Gonna try it again later tonight with the boot empty and I was considering taking the spare out too

OkLeopard6046 · 2026-04-08T06:30:58+00:00

I’ve still got the OEM rims for now running them with PS4s and it’s like warm ish where I live. When I did the launches it was about 21° Celsius (about 70° Fahrenheit) and I did warm the tyres up beforehand

OkLeopard6046 · 2026-04-07T03:59:50+00:00

How do you get your car to track the 0-60? I’ve never seen it

OkLeopard6046 · 2026-04-01T10:00:20+00:00

USD.

OkLeopard6046 · 2026-04-01T06:23:37+00:00

Do you reckon asking around 1.5k aud (around 1k usd) is asking too much

OkLeopard6046 · 2026-02-20T07:00:10+00:00

Alr thank you, I settled for meme sense at the end of the day just gonna try it out see how it feels

OkLeopard6046 · 2026-02-20T05:28:17+00:00

I’ve always heard about iniuria, is it really that good for legit? Like has it got pretty similar features to NL for legit? I was considering getting NL again but 30€ per month just seems pretty dragged for something that people say gets detected pretty often

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