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AA5B@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What about the stereotype of buying a flashy car? Arguably that’s the one I fell I not: spending far more on a car than I ever have to get something flashy and different, and purely thinking of me for what felt like the first time in my life.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I bought a roadster … which turned out to be probably the best financial decision of my life. $11K (used, obviously) and I drove it for nine years and then resold it for $5K. The thing about roadsters is that they’re thoroughly impractical, so dudes buy them and then keep them in a garage for a decade or two and then sell them for next to nothing. I have no friends so I don’t even need the one passenger seat let alone a back seat.
AA5B@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I came really close to doing that as a younger adult. At one point it was almost a club, so many co-workers had an older mg. Unfortunately they are no longer as plentiful or cheap.
Now I’m tempted from time to time but would never spend the time to care for it myself, which is one of the reasons to get an older vehicle.
At the moment I have the practical needs that both my kids are driving but sharing one car and can’t yet afford their own. This is the first summer that coordination will be a challenge. I took a Quick Look into long term rentals and short term leases and they’re just too expensive. I don’t want to buy them a car that will just sit and rot for 10 months they’re in college. I am so tempted to get myself another fun car. Maybe a project or classic. For the summer I’d have one more vehicle to share for the family. If there was an issue with my main car, I’d have an option. And if it’s a fun car for me I don’t mind having it the ten months of the year they’re in school
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Z3 master race.
AA5B@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Can older ones be had in reasonable condition for reasonable price? I never looked into those on the assumption they cost more and are not very common.
While I liked mg’s when I was younger, more recently I was a fan of Miata’s.