<prompt> Human: My ultimate financial goal is to buy a house. In order to do this i need to save for a 20 down payment, an emergency fund and additional feesmaintenance costs of the house. Im a long way away but thats the goal.I have currently 8,000 in savings. I could pay off a large chunk of the auto loan now or just keep slowly paying it off since the interest is so low. My current plan is to continue with the minimum payments and save everything I can. I figure by the time the loan is paid off I would have accumulated enough savings for the house.What is everyones opinion? Thanks.Assistant: Based on my loan amortization spreadsheet, that means youll pay about 500 in interest.We have a car loan at 2.1 that were paying only the minimum on mostly because the bank is asinine and makes you write a whole separate check that you have to mail - yes mail, that is the only way they accept payment - in separately. The way I figure it, sure were paying about 800 in interest over the life of the loan, but we were able to save up for a down payment and we probably earned more through our brokerage account putting what would have been the extra payment 150 a month for about a year and a half so far for the car. Others may have different opinions :.Human: Ive been paying the minimum since I purchased the new vehicle in 2011. The original loan amount was 22,000. I only paid the minimum because I was aggressively paying off college loans until up to about 3-4 months ago. I managed to knock out all of my 35,000 debt.  <response>: Congrats! 