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President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Moderator1, Nov 12, 2016.

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  1. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    I'm sure some do. It's not nearly as prevalent as it used to be, for a variety of reasons.
     
  2. typefitter

    typefitter Well-Known Member

    Shit yes I drove it. The salesman looked at my face and was already counting his commission. I'm in a fairly reckless time in my life, and I'm not sure who was more shocked when I said I needed to think about it: me or him.

    I really am driving a Honda Fit tomorrow. Hopefully there is a jar in it somewhere for my balls.
     
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  3. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Not as much. That's what phones are for.
     
  4. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    I will be getting a new car next spring to replace my 2003 Toyota Corolla. I could at this point afford a hot car or a really nice one, but there's no point here in Boston. It's bound to get dinged (I had two accidents last 10 years, each time I was stopped at a red light) and the weather eats cars up. So something OK that goes in snow is my only goal.
     
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  5. typefitter

    typefitter Well-Known Member

    This is my fear.
     
  6. typefitter

    typefitter Well-Known Member

    Enjoy your 2018 Toyota Corolla, Michael.
     
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  7. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    That makes me a bit sad. Some of my best times with friends were spent just cruising around, listening to the radio and shooting the bull. Hell, my wife and I used to do pre-kid as well. We'd go driving around looking at houses and neighborhoods.
     
  8. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

  9. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

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  10. typefitter

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  11. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    Fuck 'em. It's your life. Live it.

    You don't have to buy a ground pounding dinosaur with 700 hp. You can have a lot of fun (and a degree of practicality) with a hot hatchback or a smaller coupe. Hellcat is a full bore muscle car, which isn't my taste but I understand the appeal, and if that's what turns you on then yeah, you're going to suck down gas and pump out C02. If it isn't, look at a Civic SI while you're at the Honda dealer. Look at a VW Golf GTI. Hell, look at a two or three year old BMW 3 series.

    Whatever it is, go on and do it now, so you'll have memories later instead of regrets. I drove practical beaters forever, but when my parents passed and I came into some inheritance money, I bought a $6,500 Miata. I've never turned them loose. We've been through five of them now, because as soon as I got mine my wife realized that she didn't want to drive a fatass rolling couch of a standard American car either.

    There are lots of choices out there. Hellcat is pretty extreme, but you can get the same adrenaline rush with a lot of other choices... but if it moves you, buy a red Porsche. Midlife crisis be damned, that just means that you are at a point in your life that you can do what you want to and they are sniping out of envy.
     
  12. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    But not the doorman.

     
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