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Old 02-28-2021, 08:25 PM   #558
VarmintCong
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Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Peabody, MA
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2017 Civic Sport
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it’s nothing new at all. Old school dudes in the 50’s and 60’s had the work car or DD, then had their I don’t know, Gran Torino in the garage for Sunday driving. That car they kept for a generation, handed down to their kid, etc. Today the lexicon is new-new. For me, I’ll never understand DD’ing some 30k or over. It’s just dumb economically. If you have one car well it can’t do it all, sorry. You are going to lose there. And you are also racking up all the miles on it so it won’t last the test of time. Plenty are happy about this, new-new is a way of life to them. New car every 2-3 years, new phone every year, I mean geez do they keep anything any longer? Wife be all “this furniture is 3 years old it’s time for new-new!” No thought or consideration for their super consuming lifestyle, the land fills, nor anything else. YOLO DUDE!

Mathematically, or financially it worked out for me to have multiple vehicles. One donkey, the DD, low cost, compact, fuel efficient commuter to do all the mundane driving in. Having owned some nice cars, IMO, commuting in bumper to bumper in Honda Fit or a Ferrari is no different, the driving just flat out sucks. Your expensive sports car or performance car costs so much now it doesn’t make any sense to drive that every day. Buy an Impreza, a Civic, a Fit, Corolla, something cheap, fuel efficient, and reliable. Rack the F out of the miles on that thing. Then your expensive car or truck, will last you 3X, 4X or 5X as long. Swap the cheap thing out every 5-7 years when the miles are high. Don’t swap out the thing that is 30k, 40k, 50k, etc. Keep that mf’er for 10, 15 or 20 years. The math checks out. Plus you have redundancy so your life doesn’t skip a beat. You are heading to work, your DD won’t start or has a problem. No big deal. Grab the fob to the weekender and you won’t even be late to work. Don’t need to rent a car, or deal with drama. Just have the DD fixed and you don’t skip a beat.

What has changed is people want one vehicle to do EVERYTHING. Well for many enthusiasts that is never going to work. You’ll get big compromises there. I would love to have a M2C, and I prefer to buy brand new. I can afford to go to BMW tomorrow and buy one. But it would be my only car. I ask myself, you want daily something like that? Or would you want to keep it long term and make it my Gran Torino like the muscle guys did decades ago? Having a truck or wagon or something to drive every day while their Chevelle or tricked out Charger sits pristine in the garage to drive on the weekends, all sparking clean and underneath a car cover. Me, I’d rather have multiple vehicles that cost less, that do different things and functions than one vehicle. I’m going to end up with 3. A super efficient compact DD hatch. A compact truck. And a performance/sports vehicle. It takes patience, dedication but neither my truck nor my DD has a ton of miles on them because the mileage is split. Truck will last 20 years. DD, 10-15, and my performance car (new BRZ, STI, or rumored hot hatch from Booby/Toyo) will last me the rest of my life. If you cut out new-new, you can have a whole fleet. I realized this in 2009. Now I have 6 vehicles and about to add a 7th. One at a time.
I agree in theory but our driveway is so short we'd have to park a 3rd car on the street which I don't want to do. So my Si sedan serves as work and fun car, it's as nice a car as I'd want to subject to 25k miles a year and annual salt baths.
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