Was the M4 the only car you had considered? There's not many 4 seat sports coupes on the market in that general price range.

 

Euro Delivery is fukn great, and I'm sure with Joey's job the flights would be covered, but the 5 weeks wait for the car to get here AFTER you've already driven it at 100+MPH on the autobahn is absolutely brutal.


All aftermarket stuff is piggyback at this point.

 

I really wanted a 991 cab but it was just too much money........one day plus with a 2 year old it just isn't as practical as the M

 

that's just your opinion man [/lebowsky]

Weekdays, I drive the Lexus, S200, or ride my bicycle to work. I enjoy my expensive car on weekend. I don't think I'm missing anything. I would hate to let my car sit out in the hot sun or getting dinged by people who consider cars an appliance and not really care if theirs get dinged up.

think what you want. I am just saying I understand where the OP is coming from. It's his hard-earned money. If he wants to take it out only on nice day, we should not condemn the guy.

 

this is why we got S2000 here on this forum. Some of us have another fun car reserved for weekends.
Lexus is just DD.

 

Ok, my cars were bought with easy found money so I shouldn't comment... Sports cars are for... sport, and getting dinged and worn is par for the course. If it were a Rolls or an antique, I would understand the sparingly driven attitude more.

From my perspective, it's hard enough to put enough miles on the Lotus, so any opportunity I can get be it Stop and Shop or what-have-you I will take.

 

taken to PM as I don't want to hijack Joey's thread.

 

depends on what your looking for. If you can only have 1 car, than something nice has to be your DD & weekend car. If you have the luxury (money & space) than it sometimes makes sense to have a cheaper DD. I have a volt everyday mainly b.c i drive 70 miles/day in literally 10-15 mph traffic. Ive done that in faster/funner cars and it was horrible. The volt is quiet, cheap, & comfortable. I don't give a shit when it gets dinged up (which happens on a minimum bi-weekly basis in NYC). I have like 5 dents in it that I haven't even bothered to get fixed.

depends totally where you live. Joey lives/drives in Jersey's shitty ass traffic. He lives his car at the airport often. A extra cheap POS makes sense

 

Damn. If I had known you were selling it I would have made a strong offer. It was am awesome car.

 

Haha. No, it says, "your opinion and input is secondary to my own desires" or that ,"it's my money so I can do what I want with it, thanks for being a spectator to my life choices and a warm place for me to put my ding dong a few times a week." :-)

Every relationship has its own stride, but my relationship with my wife, by design, is definitely a partnership. And my opinion on this has nothing to do with how much we earn, and I should also point out that I am definitely in the camp of people who speaks of our household income as "our money." There's none of that, "You just stay at home and I actually earn a living," bullshit in my marriage. My wife earned a very good living but we chose to have her do something more important than practice law; raise our daughter. I'm not about to punish her for a choice we made together, nor am I willing to marginalize her by sending signals that my opinion is more important than hers.

I get it, there are engrained gender roles that create very real and, in my opinion, acceptable double standards, so I don't want to give the impression that I'm advocating some women's lib, we're all equal agenda here. Clearly that's not the case. It's just that I don't think that taking a paternalistic approach to marriage is helpful for the marriage. It's plenty helpful at making guys feel like a big shot and showing your buddies what a big swinging dick you have, but I didn't get married to have a readymade contestant for all matters of debate or a platform to make me feel like I'm a big deal. I got married to have a partnership with someone whom I consider to be my equal. Once I found such a woman, I yanked that shit off the market quick, fast, and in a hurry.

But if the Russians invade tomorrow or something like that, sure, I'll be all like, "Woman, make me some stew before I go crush some skulls." It's about finding the right balance.


Also, I am in no way insinuating that Joey Balls is engaging in any of the negative stuff I described above. I wouldn't do what he's doing regarding the car, but I don't want my above soapbox speech to be misinterpreted as an accusation against him.