You should get a car to enjoy your commute. No reason you can’t buy a older mustang gt and use that as your commuter. Gas would be more but drive would nicer. Don’t need to go crazy... base gt. Won’t be the corvette but would be fun
Yeah, always an option but that just moves me back into the "4 cars, 2 car garage" inconvenience which I`m not sure I`m willing to deal with anymore. If I decided I could deal w/ it would have to go `all in` on a new Mustang and have the PPF applied to the whole thing in hopes of preserving the paint. Problem is, if previous history is any indication, what seems like a good idea in the Spring/summer turns out to be a PIA once winter hits...and I end up selling and taking a hit. Happened when I bought a new 2008 Mustang GT and sold 18 months later...and then again when I bought a new 2013 Mustang GT in Spring 2013 and sold/traded in October 2015 cuz I was tired of shuffling cars around.
But I did find a really good storage option for the Vette this coming Winter, could do the same for another fun car but then summer becomes a PIA shuffling cars around to get the `good stuff` outta the garage and keep the `commuters` off the grass as parking on the grass for extended periods of time is NOT good for cars. Learned that the hard, expensive way.
I`m more of a Mustang person as opposed to Corvette so while it won`t be a Corvette, I`d actually rather drive a Mustang.
I’m with ya Kurt. Every time I try to justify a more fun thrilling car I talk myself out of it. There is the side of me that says “life’s too short and get what you want”. Then the other side that says “I just don’t see how it makes any sense”
Exactly the argument I have. And I can`t be confident that the short term thrill of it all will carry over long-term which gets kinda expensive when you`ve had enough and decide to dump a relatively new car.
BudgetPlan1,
I hear what you are saying, especially after seeing those types of cars. On a way lower level, a few years ago I bought a perfectly good (new) 2014, then traded that in your a end of year, but new Porsche Macan S, which was great but I quickly found out it was not the ideal car for my NYC commute. Traded that in for the new Audi A4, which was the first non SUV that I had in over 20 years. Well, after a few months of that, realizing that the A4 was too low for ease of entry and a bit too small, I saw the Audi Allroad (station wagon) sooooooo I traded the 6 month old A4 for the 2017 Allroad. That`s buying/trading 4 cars within a year and that`s simply crazy at any age, let alone at 65 years old and I ain`t rich either.
The Allroad is my best car yet and I intend on keeping that car for at as long as it is in great working order. Doesn`t mean I don`t enjoy checking out newer cars, but after losing thousands in new car depreciation, I`m not looking to make that impulsive mistake again.
I`m certainly not in the rarified air of the exotics group, operating at a much lower level. I`ve lost a bit of $$ in the past with these kinda impulsive decisions as well.
If there was a truly `dual purpose` car that would be fun and could also be used as a daily, would solve some of my issues nicely but haven`t found one yet. The Infinity Q60 RED AWD is my current top pick (400hp, AWD...possibly reasonably fun) but then I hear the exhaust of a good `ol American V8 and the stupid side of my brain starts coming up with all these crazy ideas. Have also looked in to Cadillac ATS-V, Dodge Charger Scat Pack (rear wheel drive probably makes this a no-go for winter commuting) but can`t really narrow down anything that is visceral fun yet appropriate for year round use. I gave that a try with an AWD Subaru WRX in 10/2015 but that lasted only 18 months before the compromises with that somewhat stripped down `fun` car became too much for my old bones to live with.
Kinda funny that I`m apparently a bit transparent in my scheming; was sitting on the couch Sunday morning, trying to think of a solution and my wife says "Your thinking of something, aren`t you...I`ve seen that look before..." and then nicely offered to `share` her Corvette but my daily commute would just eat that thing alive.
I guess this isn`t really a problem in the great scheme of things and if I really wanted to solve it I`d quit my job and move to Arizona where the whole winter/summer car dichotomy is a non-issue. But getting in her Vette over the weekend, punching the start button and hearing the exhaust is intoxicating. Maybe I just need to `sober up` and return to being somewhat practical.
On another note, the Vette with the Automatic transmission, paddle shifters and psuedo-manual Sport modes would likely mean that I could give up my personal need for manual tranny (which wife refuses to drive except in emergency) in `my` fun cars. That`s a bit of a compromise, no?
