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Originally Posted by GenXer
Briefly for a year, before it was wrecked, I went and bought a new C7 Corvette Z51 Stingray. It wasn't the most expensive Corvette you can buy but it was up there just around $70K
It was the most enjoyable and most horrifying experience in anything I've owned.
In that year, it had to be hand wash since it didn't actually fit most car washes, even touchless one. I always worried about dings and scratches, bird drops and tree sap, etc.
It goes like a bat out of hell but I would get anxious from the Fast and Furious crowd trying to out race me at every turn.
I ruined a set of tires at 500 miles showing off by burning rubbers for no good reason.
I was afraid to take it to work and always parked far away.
In winter time, it sits in the garage, covered up wasting payment and insurance.
It was near impossible to drive fast without getting legal attention.
Anyone else experienced sports car angst and never got to really enjoy their ride?
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This is pretty much every car I own and I will tell you why. My very first car, which was a hand me down, was an 86 Peugeot 505 wagon. The car had like 50-60k miles. It was not fast at all, though it was fairly comfortable. That's the best I could say about it. The paint was faded and peeling after 6 years. Pretty much everything mechanical except the transmission fell apart on it. It was a truly terrible car.
After 2 years of not really driving, my parents very generously bought me a 93 (in '96) VW Fox. To me, that car was a high-end, high-precision piece of driving equipment. That paint was good. It had a manual transmission. Working A/C, glove box, and fuel gauge. Over the 4 yrs I owned it, it always worked. Because the paint was nice, I always kept it clean as I really hated the terrible Peugeot paint. I wasn't super cautious where I parked (as I didn't always have a choice), but I was aware of my surroundings and would be deliberate in where I parked when I could.
Time went on and I got to a point where I could buy my own cars. I haven't owned anything legit awesome, but I liked everything I bought. Starting with an 06 GTI and then moving to: 08 Crossfire w/ manual, '12 Mustang GT, '11 m3, and most recently an '18 Jeep SRT, I have always taken great care to keep the cars clean, adhere to various maintenance intervals, and part far, far away.
The only difference is that I drove most of the cars in the winter, at least to some degree since I had nothing else. So in the end, I am not someone who reserves good care of his cars to nice cars.