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Old 08-23-2018, 11:19 PM   #21 (permalink)
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If you can afford a used Porsche and the aforementioned maintenance - especially a Boxster or Cayman - I could think of worse things to buy.
Sure. But you know, a sports car is more of an impulsive buy than a rational one, so a mistake doesn't seem so unlikely to happen.


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Old 08-23-2018, 11:40 PM   #22 (permalink)
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Sure. But you know, a sports car is more of an impulsive buy than a rational one, so a mistake doesn't seem so unlikely to happen.




Some of the best mechanics I ever met were independent ones.
Enthusiasts take a lot of time to buy their cars. It might be more accurate to say that sports cars are emotional buys rather than logical buys, and I regard both as rational.

Independents can very often be the best! It's hard to know, though, except by choosing one and seeing by dumb luck how it goes. So far I have been lucky in being able to take care of most of my maintenance, but there's a timing belt lurking for the Hondizzle, so I'll have to make a choice at some point.
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How many sports cars are bought during mid-life crises? How much planning is generally done during that period?
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How many sports cars are bought during mid-life crises? How much planning is generally done during that period?
When mine comes, I'll let you know
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How many sports cars are bought during mid-life crises?
At least in a poor country such as mine, I'm sure the overwhelming majority of the high-end sports cars are bought during mid-life crises. Viagra was presumably cheaper...


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Sure, without some good financial planning it would be somewhat harder to have the stability required to invest in such expensive hobbies.
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I wonder why warp drive goes offline so often, and why transporter technology seems to be so shoddy in the 23rd century?

In fact, why can't a lost crewman be re constituted from transporter records?
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I stand corrected. Temperamental technology is a plot device.

Someone posted the meme in #1 again and somebody said that Anderson had recently broken his leg, and was suffering from medication side effects.

There were some good MacGyver and Stargate references.
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I usually say the problem with Volkswagen is its owners who seem to expect the newer ones to stand to abuse and neglect much like a Beetle or a Dasher would do. Well, considering that Volkswagen still has a strong foothold in my POS of a home country with its harsh road and environmental conditions, it may not be so unreliable at all.
Another issue for VW and German cars in general is that the manufacturers expect owners to follow the maintenance schedule religiously. The Germans also spec European oils and fluids that are more expensive than the common fluids used in US and Asian brands.

Then a VW owner goes to the quick lube and gets the oil changed with cheap bulk conventional 10W-30 and wonders why the turbo fails.
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Another issue for VW and German cars in general is that the manufacturers expect owners to follow the maintenance schedule religiously. The Germans also spec European oils and fluids that are more expensive than the common fluids used in US and Asian brands.
Earlier VWs were seen as more dumb-proof and some buyers of newer models are still influenced by family traditions, but even no-frills models catering to the Latin America such as the Gol have had some trouble with oil specs in recent years.


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Then a VW owner goes to the quick lube and gets the oil changed with cheap bulk conventional 10W-30 and wonders why the turbo fails.
No wonder some Brazilian-made models which are available locally with TSI engines are available on some regional export markets only with the 1.6 MSI naturally-aspirated engine, such as the current-generation Polo, the T-Cross and the Virtus.

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