Talk:The Gauntlet (Season 13)/@comment-33063766-20180120080647/@comment-28169398-20180120180804

AyD3nRN you can think of skips as going towards the purchase price of the car.

If you win the car with no skips, then your discount is 100% on the purchase price.

If you win the car, but pay 65 in skips, then you have reduced your effective discount on the purchase price to 90%. 130 in skips, 80% and so on (based on the 650  undiscounted purchase price of the 2016).

I agree that I would always prefer to do upgrades, but this a single, bonus series car. I can appreciate why people might not want to put upgrades on it. What I would say is that I would always look at the series completion PR and that would be the cap. If the car isn't the top car in the series, then that calculus becomes a bit more difficult. Personally I would like to have all the cars, and am willing to trade upgrades for Special Event wins, but that is me. Skips always feel like defeat, but again, that is me.