Happyrock has great post on what our cars say or don’t say about us. Personal finance bloggers are sometimes obsessed about cars or rather obsessed about not being obsessed with cars. I’ve decided to share a picture of what my car looks like. However I’ve decided to have a little fun with it. I’ve done a little research and have included the cars of some of the other personal finance bloggers. Most of these pictures are generic pictures I obtained from the web that may not be reflective what the actual cars look like. I tried to match actual color when I could.

Featured are Flexo from Consumerism commentary, Mapgirl, 2millionBlog, Blueprint For Financial Succes, FiveCentNickel, and HappyRock. I would’ve like have included more personal finance bloggers, but these are folks I could quickly determine what they drove. Continue on to see who drives what.

Going clockwise from the top left corner are:
AskDong, Dong - 1999 Honda Accord
FiveCentNickel - 2005 Hond CR-V
Consumerism Commentary, Flexo - 2004 Civix LX
HappyRock - 1994 Nissan Sentra (undetermined age) - I’m also guessing Sentra since he doesn’t explicitly say so.
Blueprint for Financial Prosperity - Toyota Celica 2004 2003
and in the center is Mapgirl - 2001 Altima SE. MyMoneyBlog drives 2002 Grand Prix which I forgot to include in the gallery so far. I’ve used actual pictures from the respective web site for Flexo, HappyRock, and 2Million.

Other Bloggers I’ve since added.

Interestingly, but not surprisingly not a single American Car only one three American cars. Personal finance bloggers are concerned about their finances for this reason Japanese cars often make more sense. Japanese cars tend to be more reliable. Japanese cars are generally more fuel efficient. Japanese cars have better resale values (especially Hondas which are popular on the list). These cars represent on the most part a very practical set of cars. Nothing flashy (though that picture I dug up for the Yellow Celica looks pretty flashy….). A car is for transportation. Status is inconsequential. What a car definitely is not is an investment. Spending more money on car is just a sure way to lose more money quickly as the car depreciates, let alone accounting for insurance costs.

If you’re a blogger and want to add your car to the list, post a comment or email me.