tough decision
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At any point, did you consider other alternatives.... like investing the cash?
Few would regard a designer watch or a car mod as an investment nor particularly useful.
Fun - perhaps, useful - no, indulgent - absolutely
Few would regard a designer watch or a car mod as an investment nor particularly useful.
Fun - perhaps, useful - no, indulgent - absolutely
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i have a replica cartier 
... 20 bucks... its pretty nice actually...
I can't believe anybody in this world would spend more that 200 bucks on a watch... its a friggin watch... I woulda gone with the forced induction
oh man that watch is going to be boring. I just hope at the end of the day you can sit down and say... man, this watch is way more fun than going turbo.
... 20 bucks... its pretty nice actually... I can't believe anybody in this world would spend more that 200 bucks on a watch... its a friggin watch... I woulda gone with the forced induction
oh man that watch is going to be boring.
I just hope at the end of the day you can sit down and say... man, this watch is way more fun than going turbo.
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Originally Posted by jal3lee,Sep 6 2007, 05:24 PM
3wow this post is becoming more than I expected..
I never said that I couldn't afford to get the FI also, i just wanted to buy/invest in something for myself and I chose the watch after thinking about which i would put more use into. i don't go to the track and I don't race the car. i wear a watch everyday, i hate using a cell phone and keep it in my bag or pocket so i chose a watch instead of turbo..
for 5grand, would i be able to get a complete turbo with install and tuning? from what i have read, it doesn't sound like it. plus, my s is my daily driver, so I decided that until i get a beater, i didn't want to put the stress on the engine.
I don't understand why buying a nice (yes it is overly expensive) watch makes me someone that cares about how i look. of course i bought the watch because i like how it looks, BUT I DIDN'T BUY IT BECAUSE IT MAKES ME LOOK GOOD - god knows it would take more than a watch to do that!!
vader - its a collector's item, just like your vader costume would be.
I never said that I couldn't afford to get the FI also, i just wanted to buy/invest in something for myself and I chose the watch after thinking about which i would put more use into. i don't go to the track and I don't race the car. i wear a watch everyday, i hate using a cell phone and keep it in my bag or pocket so i chose a watch instead of turbo..
for 5grand, would i be able to get a complete turbo with install and tuning? from what i have read, it doesn't sound like it. plus, my s is my daily driver, so I decided that until i get a beater, i didn't want to put the stress on the engine.
I don't understand why buying a nice (yes it is overly expensive) watch makes me someone that cares about how i look. of course i bought the watch because i like how it looks, BUT I DIDN'T BUY IT BECAUSE IT MAKES ME LOOK GOOD - god knows it would take more than a watch to do that!!
vader - its a collector's item, just like your vader costume would be.
You phrased your decision as a choice between spending $5k on FI or a watch. If you have enough money, then the decisions are completely separate. But since you're looking at it as either-or, and complaining that the turbo would be more than $5k to boot, I can only assume that the money is playing a part in your decision.
Expensive watches are owned by two types of people: rich people, and people wishing to appear rich. We've already established that you are not rich, because if you were you'd already have FI and a watch. You've just claimed that you didn't buy the watch to show off, so the only conclusion is: this watch isn't for you.
There's actually a third catagory of watch owners: gullible people. They've been fooled by advertizing to think that just because something is exquisitly engineered and crafted that it somehow hides the fact that it is as obsolete as a Babbage difference engine. These are the same people who buy diamonds because De Beers tells them that they are rare. Perhaps you have been hypnotized by it's beauty...snap out of it! Resist the dark forces of marketing!