Yesterday, while on the way to the market in my Windstar, I pulled up next to the car I really wanted.
How many of us choose a car for practical reasons, and forego our true desires? Like me? So here’s your chance to tell everyone what you’ll get next time.
A couple of stipulations;
You have to pay for it, from your own income or what may be your income in the not too distant future. No fair winning the lottery or letting mommy and daddy pay for it. In other words, it has to cost you something.
It has to be your sole means of transportation. If you have kiddies, well, that’s the way it goes.
This car must be something you would really buy. Maybe you’re actually considering buying one.
Ok, here’s mine:
I want a new Audi A6 4.2. With the optional wheels and tires, good sound system, sunroof, and most of the other goodies. The dark blue looks good.
I figure if I quit smoking and eating out so much, I can get it in about two years.
BTW; Pickups are ok, I guess. I can see someone creamin’ in their jeans over a 4wd Dodge Ram with the V10 and dualies.
Let’s go for it. Maybe we can have a rallye in a couple years.
Peace,
mangeorge
I only know two things;
I know what I need to know
And
I know what I want to know
Mangeorge, 2000
I’m not much of a practicality person. I intend to try my dambdest to always live near public transportation. When I get out of college, I want a Mazda Miata. Screw practicality. I’d go for a Lotus Elise, but you said we had to be somewhat more realistic than that. If I can manage my goal of city life for the rest of my life, I would primarily commute by bike and subway. The times I need to travel further, I want a car that I’d enjoy driving, and small, light, and topless are the things I like in cars. Maybe someday in the future, I’ll get married and raise a family, and perhaps be forced into (ack) an SUV. But life’s too short to waste my time with utilitarian vehicles.
Oh, Michelle, I am so sorry to hear that! You are ok, I trust? What a bummer Monday for you!!
My dream car is a big old 1956 chevy or something… I love those big fat old gas guzzling mostrosities. I don’t know why, but I always have. Curves, not fins.
I will not be used!! Oh, wait, I’m an appliance. Never mind…
Glad you’re OK, Michelle - cars are just heaps of metal, remember that. Heh, they’re especially like heaps of metal when you TOTAL them, of course! Sorry… couldn’t resist.
I currently drive a Peugeot 306, but I am very much in love with the new Chrysler PT Cruiser. I never thought I’d say that about an AMERICAN car… but this one is just WAY cool.
Having said that, I will be moving to London in about a year. I’ll have to sell my sleek boy-racer hatch anyway (what with them Limeys driving on the wrong side of the road and all!!), but once in London, I’d be a fool to buy an equally expensive car. It will be stolen, broken into or crashed into. So I will most probably be going back to my first love, and arguably one of the best hatchbacks ever made: the Peugeot 205.
(I understand Peugeot has a very poor reputation in the US, to the extend that Peugeot doesn’t even bother importing them anymore. Believe me, they’re actually VERY nice cars these days. In the hatchback class especially, they eat riceburners for breakfast!! Not to mention the arch enemies, VW Golfs i.e. )
Carry on. Enough testosterone for now
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Thanks to everyone. Yes, I am OK. I have a bruised knee and my arms are a little friction burned (I threw my arms up over my face when my air bag exploded), and I have one whopper of a headache, but other than that I am OK. The thing that was hurt the most (other than my car) was my ego…I was the third car in a three car wreck, so I am just dealing with that bad feeling you get when you do something wrong and it effects other people. Thankfully, the other people were very nice to me, no one yelled at me or anything like that. Everyone was just concerned for my safety because while their cars suffered damaged bumpers, my car’s entire front end was crunched in. Every time someone tried to talk to me, all I could do was cry. The cops did not give me a ticket, but you know how it goes, when you are the last car it automatically is your fault. I don’t even really know what happened. One second I was driving, the next second I heard a bang and my airbag was in my face. The people in the second car said they had to stop short because the car in front of them did, and I just must not have had time to stop. All I know is everything seemed OK to me until the very second the accident happened.
So now I have no car. The insurance company is going out to the place where the tow truck left my car to survey the damage. I’ll be lucky to get any money at all. Then I have to start looking for a new car. I will bring a male friend with me to make sure I don’t get screwed. This particular friend changes cars like most people change underwear, so he knows how to deal with things like this.
Again, thanks to all for their concern.
You know you are a vet tech when: you can eat your lunch with one hand and clean up a parvo blowout with the other.
Michelle;
I’m glad to hear you’re ok. I feel kind of funny about bringing the subject up at such a bad time for you. Hope you’re back on the road soon. Don’t let them nasty old insurance people push you around.
Sounds like the airbag may have served you well. What do you think?
Peace,
mangeorge (Practical+safe = Volvo. Argh.)
Again, Michelle, the fact that you’re unhurt is all that matters. From experience, I can tell you a little shunt happends to the best of us… (yes, there IS a thread but DAMN if I’ll post the link here!).
I’m sure things will turn out fine - keep reminding yourself that financial damage is actually no damage at all.
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Michi, glad to hear you’re OK. Sorry you’re having a rough time, I’m sure you’ll be just fine. Wish I was in Florida to “console” you ;). Sounds like that cute face of yours may have saved you a pricey ticket…damn this penis.
Anyways. I’ve mentioned it quite a few times here, I happen to be in love with a certain automobile. My Dream Car is a BMW 328Ci, metallic Midnight Blue, Sunroof, Autoshifter, Sport Package with low profile tires and 17" Aluminum wheels, and gray leather interior. I should be able to afford it if I get the type of job I’m educated for, not that this has happened just yet, nor are there any hot prospects :(. It also would work nicely w/ my bachelor lifestyle.
My dream car is a Ford 350 crew cab diesel pick up truck. Fully loaded with all the bells and whistles. I would call it Land Freighter and crush all the little cars on the road…* Muuuwwwaaaahaaaahaaaaaaaa*
That what does not kill me, postpones the inevitable.
I’d like a big ass van, the kind you can stand up in, with captain’s chairs and a built in tv/vcr. Mmmmmmm.
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I already have my “dream car” Mitsubishi Mirage - small, sporty, cheap and paid for. The only way it could be better would be if it were purple - but forest green with a gold pinstripe is a very close second (and the only purple that year for the Mirages was ugly)
mangeorge - I want to say how glad I am that you have FINALLY joined the party over here in MPSIMS! If you make it to any of the IRL meetings, I might just have to make a special trip!
I do not merely dance. I bewitch. I seduce. I enchant and I bewilder. Throw money.
(Gee, Wally must have seen me dance!)
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