I live in the cattle pastures. Really. The area is prone to flooding as the Snoqualamie River spills over its banks, cleaning the farms, permeating the air with the Eau de Dairy. This has little to do with my point other than it is the place where the RX-7 and 280Z's go to die.
The thing about sports cars, especially convertible sports cars, is that you have to make a tremendous committment decision when making the inital purchase. You have to decide if you are going to have this car for the short term (3-5 years) or the long term (20-30 years). There is nothing inbeween. Either way you are committing to serious cash outlay.
A functional car can be written off as functional, even when style moves on. A sports car, however, unless vintage, is either new or crap. Thats it. And the less you spend initially, the sooner it needs to be replaced. The Miata (and I could be wrong on this but you be the judge), the poor man's daughters first car, has a 3-5 year shelf life max. Beyond that, it looks like the car your daddy bought you when you were in high school. Sell the car and lose the perm.
The problem is that it looks like you are hanging on to the dream Uncle Rico. You were cool when you bought it but when the cooler car came out, you lost all stock in Coolness Inc. And when 3,4,5 sometimes 15 new versions have come out and you are still driving the 89 Plymouth Laser (turbocharged)... I'm sorry. Its time to hang it up.
Talk to me.
ah the datsun 280z. dear arizonarants: can you tell me a car w/in the last 10 yrs that has launched a sports car w/ t-tops? i mean, who was the ad wizard who thot that was a good idea. (although the IROC was def. better w/ the t-top version. heh).
ReplyDeletespeaking of daddy bought cars in high school, VW has seemed to master the market on this demo in particiar to cabriolet's and jetta's. ok for high school, but in your mid/late 20s, what is it about jetta's (if not a female or rainbow lover) that screams "i'm entry level and maxing out at $28,500!"?
You're totally right there.
ReplyDeleteI've often wondered what the correlation (percentage wise) is between VW (Bug in particular) and Macintosh owners. I think, especially in the pre OS X world, the mac was somewhat counter culture itself. Standing up to and against the staus quo and thus, garnered the support of the cause heads. Save the whales, save the trees, save the folk music, save the leather for Birkenstocks, save the computer user from the big bad capitalist giant.
I love capitalism. So does Steve Jobs.