Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-207.201.199.142-20170807202048/@comment-26829117-20170808150224

So this is an interesting thread. User:HeadFool it was me that used to bang on about keeping 1000 reserve because that was the minimum you needed to ensure you never missed a sale (I missed a sale on the TOYOTA TS040 Hybrid (2014) which was my last car to buy for ages).

My advice is to prioritise spending on winning new cars and on sales for cars you don't think will come up in LTS or flashbacks soon. Only spend gold on progressing in career or other activities if it really is spare gold. Once you have all the cars then you only have to worry about the new ones each update which means more spare gold for career completion.

If you take a look at the summary table at the end of my Gold, Gold and More Gold blog then you can see the cost each release for winning the cars. I would recommend having at least 1000 reserve just to guarantee non new car cost issues.

Each standard release (6 weeks) you will get roughly the following rewards:
 * 210 - 5 daily ads
 * 330 - daily bonus (165 if not elite)
 * 200 - estimated SE/TLS rewards for winning cars

So you can see that some of the cost of winning new cars is covered each update by the standard rewards. The rest you have to top up by farming.