Originally posted by Jigster:
Blah. I like cars older than me 
[ 06-29-2001: Message edited by: Jigster ]
Same here Jig, er, used too...then a funny thing happened one day last year, a friend came over to borrow my F250 truck (which I am keeping) and dropped his '92 525 BMW off with me for the week-end. I never even gave a BMW a 2nd look on the road, could care less about them...then I drove it. The first day, the quality of the car and the way it handled slapped me in the face, and, to add insult to injury, the 2nd day of driving it, I looked down and saw 180,000 miles on it, here I was thinking all along the car had maybe 20 or 30k on it.
Recently, wife and I discussed holding off on a new Ford F350 diesel due to gas prices(old truck is now 10 yrs with 140,000 miles on it), and the fact that commuting 60 miles a day with the aforementioned would not be practical, so, a car was more practical. Then the last 5 weeks I started trying out every car there was, Audi's, BMW's, even a C205 Mercedes (thanks, nice car, but too much fluff for my taste)....then, I drove a 330Ci...and never looked back...this is NOT an expensive car, its the lowest price Beamer that the product line has, but the quality is still there, so is the 'get-up-and-go' (0-60 in 5.9 seconds) and my mid-life crisis is fulfilled with the 2 door coupe.
Sorry, I had to tell someone about it! It's technically my first new car, the last two the wife drove until they were both old, then I got her 'hand-me-downs'....but, its a good thing, cause now I got my own!
