Anybody here ever buy a vehicle based on their Driver`s Training?
In hindsight, after my wife and I did Driving Schools in the `90s (following a fender-bender...realized we could be much better drivers so !off to school! for a few summers), I should`ve bought cars like the Schools used and set `em up like the cars we drove there; but noooo I had to have something "better"
Finally learned my lesson and after being trained in Caprices I stuck with those until I got *really* trained in Crown Vics. Now I`m all about that car, leaving my "much better" sedans sit in the garage most of the time. That`s part of why I like the OBS Tahoe, I was trained in an OBS Suburban and know what the vehicle will do in ways I would *not* know in a "better" SUV (sold both the "better" ones with no regrets). Probably wouldn`t matter since "better vehicles" (presumably) do things better, but I like knowing the Real World Limits of the vehicle-driver combo and being confident that I`ll instantly do the right thing with "unconscious competence" in an emergent situation. (I`m a firm believer in the Two Second Rule.)
Heh heh, I`ve reached for a column shifter that wasn`t there in the Audis a few times...I`ve just become programmed that way. Gotta watch that, took me forever to *lose* the automatic Threshold Braking, used to do that instinctively in those emergent situations due to training in pre-ABS cars and it cost me when learning ABS cars (drove the VDI staff nuts my first tour). Under stress we revert to our Training.
Also, thinking back to those [silly cars] I had for so long, I simply cannot enjoy a truly High Performance Car on the street. My Porsches, the Mallett...I simply didn`t enjoy driving them around at 4/10 and by the time I was remotely having fun I was in "car impounded, driver in custody" territory and an impounded car isn`t gonna be Autopian by the time ya get it back. (Also, I spent enough years, yeah...years...with a suspended license that I simply won`t risk a serious traffic offense.)
minerigger- Yeah, I oughta DIY my research (if not the wrenching
) for the Tahoe the same as I do for the Crown Vic, but eh... one of these days I`ll just admit that my vehicles are basically just appliances to me any more, and I wanna have others do all that [stuff]; the Detailing is more than enough for Yours Truly.
But yeah, one thing I really like about both those vehicle is that I *understand* them, know how stuff works..no inscrutable black box systems like the Audis have.
Lonnie said:
To me, the economics (AKA, personal income and expenses) of an individual will play THE biggest factor in what vehicle they will drive and why
Different experience here, I see/know a scad of people who can`t *IMO* really afford what they drive. Seems like everybody with a Credit Rating is driving an exotic these days. But I guess I define "what can be afforded" differently from most people..
It will be interesting to see how the Ford cars parts supply lasts now that they cut all of there cars except for the Mustang and an electric vehicle...
Yeah, that basically took other Fords right off my list. Too bad as I have a Ford dealer with a great service dept. (though they`re a long ways away).
