OK guys, here is your chance to talk me out of it.
Please, please, please make a good point for me to consider!
Our family's Saturn was turned in earlier this summer. After my dad had passed, that had become a sort of third car for us that no one was really using, so I drove it in winters.
So now I am without a daily driver. I am considering getting a really cheap "beater" for the winter, but if the beater doesn't last, then I am really screwed.
I don't want two car payments either. That wouldn't be smart.
So I have been looking around. My mom just bought a G35x, and while she was shopping for cars, one of the cars she looked at was the Volvo S60R. The car stickers for $42K. I drove that thing, and it was the most incredible car I have ever driven. It did EVERYTHING well. The last time I was that impressed with a car when I test drove it was ------- 3 years ago when I first drove an LS1 f-body. Look how that turned out.
With the equity I have in my car, as well as some money in the bank, I can trade in the T/A and get payments very similar to what I have now. Best of all, I will have a car I can drive around daily (AWD), and is much more civil, comfortable, and refined. When I have a family, it won't be impractical either.
All "practicality" aside, the car is a seriously wicked machine. 2.5L turbo charged inline 5, DOHC with CVVT. It makes 295 ft-lbs of torque from 1950 to 5200 RPMS!!!!
It has sensors all around the suspension that report the cars movement 500 times a second to adjust the damping accordingly for effective cornering. It has up to 95% power transfer to any one wheel at any time. The car doesn't understeer either, the power is transferred to the rear wheels in cornering to produce a "slight" oversteer. It took a freeway cloverleaf on ramp at WOT at 80 mph with no problem. I could not believe it. Best of all, the engine is built for forced induction. With a boost controller and a larger turbo, I could produce some serious horsepower numbers.
I would be so so so so sad to sell my WS6
... but all things considered... can anyone talk me out of this?
Please, please, please make a good point for me to consider!
Our family's Saturn was turned in earlier this summer. After my dad had passed, that had become a sort of third car for us that no one was really using, so I drove it in winters.
So now I am without a daily driver. I am considering getting a really cheap "beater" for the winter, but if the beater doesn't last, then I am really screwed.
I don't want two car payments either. That wouldn't be smart.
So I have been looking around. My mom just bought a G35x, and while she was shopping for cars, one of the cars she looked at was the Volvo S60R. The car stickers for $42K. I drove that thing, and it was the most incredible car I have ever driven. It did EVERYTHING well. The last time I was that impressed with a car when I test drove it was ------- 3 years ago when I first drove an LS1 f-body. Look how that turned out.
With the equity I have in my car, as well as some money in the bank, I can trade in the T/A and get payments very similar to what I have now. Best of all, I will have a car I can drive around daily (AWD), and is much more civil, comfortable, and refined. When I have a family, it won't be impractical either.
All "practicality" aside, the car is a seriously wicked machine. 2.5L turbo charged inline 5, DOHC with CVVT. It makes 295 ft-lbs of torque from 1950 to 5200 RPMS!!!!
It has sensors all around the suspension that report the cars movement 500 times a second to adjust the damping accordingly for effective cornering. It has up to 95% power transfer to any one wheel at any time. The car doesn't understeer either, the power is transferred to the rear wheels in cornering to produce a "slight" oversteer. It took a freeway cloverleaf on ramp at WOT at 80 mph with no problem. I could not believe it. Best of all, the engine is built for forced induction. With a boost controller and a larger turbo, I could produce some serious horsepower numbers.I would be so so so so sad to sell my WS6
... but all things considered... can anyone talk me out of this?
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