What's more important to you?

I quite enjoy owning different cars with different levels of performance, different handling characteristics, etc. I even quite enjoy buying/selling cars.

In 7 years of driving, the longest I've owned a car is 2 years and the shortest is around 5 months. I've had the current Mk2 Focus for a year now but I'm afraid it's going next month to make room for something a little more... German.
 
Joshy said:
I honestly do struggle to see (m)any of the disadvantages of changing your car often.
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Be pretty annoying to pay say £350 for a service or fit a set of tyres at £600 then get rid of it a month later because you are 'bored'. If you dont keep something long term you dont get the most of out investing in looking after it properly.

Getting bored easily always reminds me of being a kid with a short attention span :p

Buy right, keep for ages. buy wrong, change constantly.

I plan to keep my next car for 5 years. I'm pretty sure I'll acheive that, too.
 
I've got an attitude similar to Fox's.
My previous car lasted me 8 years. It was getting pretty long in the tooth towards the end, but was a perfect car for what I needed at the time.

Had my current car for 18 months or so now and plan to keep it a good few years yet. Would have to spend a serious amount of money to get a better all rounder than what I have, so will more than likely keep it until it starts to break.
 
Haircut said:
Would have to spend a serious amount of money to get a better all rounder than what I have, so will more than likely keep it until it starts to break.
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I think this is the other side. I guess if you buy cars that are exceptionally good at what they do it becomes more and more difficult to replace them easily without either spending a huge amount of money or getting an inferior car. So in many ways you are forced to keep them for longer.
 
[TW]Fox;18440147 said:
I think this is the other side. I guess if you buy cars that are exceptionally good at what they do it becomes more and more difficult to replace them easily without either spending a huge amount of money or getting an inferior car. So in many ways you are forced to keep them for longer.
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Yep, I've currently got an early E92 335i SE.
Have thought recently about swapping it for a facelift M-Sport model, but that would set me back another few grand for not much gain.

The next step for me will possibly be an F10 535i (or maybe a Porsche 911 of some sort depending on what's happening with my life at the time!) and either way it's going to cost me a decent amount, so figure I'll stick with what I have for a bit.
It also means the car fund for next time gets more added to it :p
 
I'd love an F10 535i - it is my favourite real world car.

I can't afford one :(

Well, not without doing something completely stupid like spending half of my salary on finance :p
 
[TW]Fox;18440354 said:
I'd love an F10 535i - it is my favourite real world car.

I can't afford one :(

Well, not without doing something completely stupid like spending half of my salary on finance :p
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DO IT :p
 
[TW]Fox;18440147 said:
I think this is the other side. I guess if you buy cars that are exceptionally good at what they do it becomes more and more difficult to replace them easily without either spending a huge amount of money or getting an inferior car. So in many ways you are forced to keep them for longer.
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This is all well and good if you have a firm idea of what you want in a car. Problem is that what I want from a car can go from absolute polar opposites pretty much forcing me to change cars, but I always end up compromising in one area or another because as far as I'm aware, you can't buy a car that is exceptionally good at everything for what I want for anywhere near my sort of budget :(.
 
I actually saw a car yesterday that fufilled that "most likely the kind of car I'd keep for 10 years" kind of thing.

Still mulling if I want to take out a small loan to cover the difference, though. Hmm.
 
This is something Ive been thinking about recently. I've changed my car far too many times just because Ive got bored. It was quite fun at the start but 10 years later it is getting quite tiresome.

I'd love to be able to buy a car and keep it for more than a few months but I just get itchy feet and sell up and move on. Maybe if I spent some decent money on a 'nice' car I would feel more content and keep it longer? Who knows?
 
That's what I'm trying to weigh up - would I get as much enjoyment out of the expensive car as I would the cheap one, that I could mess around with and then just ditch when I'm done with it for something else. Tricky balancing act!
 
Really well looked after C4 Corvette, 6-speed L98, facelift, coilover conversion, tuned, it's red with black leather. It's just one of those 'right' examples, just bang on the money.

It's either that or a BMW M5, for a laugh (E34), with 160,000 miles on it at the moment :D

I am not sure what to do. Just a question of what kind of use or enjoyment I'd get out of it, for the money, really, I guess.
 
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