off topic: cars - daily driver
LMN
The lease on my Porsche Panamera runs out next month and I'm undecided as to what to get next for a daily driver.
Opinions?
I'd like something with 4 doors and is a comfortable, quiet ride as I will be driving it everyday.
I'm leaning toward a Merc S550. It will be a lease. Given I pay my leased cars with money from my job, I'd prefer the payments to be $1700 or under.
Opinions?
I'd like something with 4 doors and is a comfortable, quiet ride as I will be driving it everyday.
I'm leaning toward a Merc S550. It will be a lease. Given I pay my leased cars with money from my job, I'd prefer the payments to be $1700 or under.
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I go for small exotics myself, but only the Porsches really are usable as true daily drivers, and not being "exotic" they don't have enough bling for ME! LOL
Or why not a Rolls-Royce ? I think there may be 1 or 2 RR dealers in South FL. I ran across a real 1 percenter (OK, maybe a 2 percenter) who drove up to his aircraft hangar in a used (corr. "pre-owned")RR. He said he's never bought a new car, always pre-owned
If OP is the real deal, IMO his time would be better spent surfing upscale car dealer websites vs fishing for answers on a website where very few, if any, active posters own/lease the kind of cars OP is looking at.
Win, win!
Lexus is known for its smooth ride and it’s not as big as the S550 – or perhaps a beemer would a more appropriate choice of luxury and performance for a guy in his 20s.
@minnow - I'm not sure about that, seems most members here report making $250K or more annually, so they should have some basic knowledge of luxury cars. I mean, you can't expect someone making, say $350K/yr, to drive a POS car or take public transportation to the strip club, now can you? That would be silly!
RickyBoy? Excluding the rich part, of course.
Well, if you want opinions, here's mine:
If I were you, I'd consider getting off the fucking drugs and try to straighten up your life, and instead of being an (apparently) self obsessed addict trying to erase deep seated issues you won't deal with, why not try doing something constructive? Like helping others. Devote your money and your life to doing something that will make a difference in somebody else's life. Stop trying to feed your deflated ego by coming on here and bragging about how rich you are and how many fucked up hookers and strippers will put up with your insane shit, and become a man.
Humor me - why exactly should I be expected to "devote my money and my life to helping others". Because I was born into a rich family I have to sacrifice myself my time and money to other people? I've never understood that ridiculous assumption.
Life's not fair. We all have problems. I sure as hell have mine. I'm still going to enjoy my money and life how I see fit. Its mine.
You're right. Go buy another Porsche, score some cocaine or whatever, do a two week drug binge, and beat up some hookers. That'll work.
I could burn all my money if I wanted to. Its mine. Well, it's my parents' given to me through custodial trust accounts, but transitively it's mine.
The idiotic assumption that the wealthy are expected to be martyrs simply because they are wealthy is illogical.
Life's unfair, doesn't mean I should be penalized for being born into a rich family.
But you'll probably never get that, so never mind.
Jerkoffson, the perpetual cranky old whiner, telling other to be a man? Shit! That's nearly as funny as when RickyBoy tells others to be a man. Why don't you two lead by example.
Fuckin' hilarious?
So I become a man by giving away my money to other people? Lol so dumb.
The Merc holds only slightly more than zero interest for me. I say "slightly more than zero" because a Porsche holds exactly zero. I IF I were going to get a "vanity" car it would be a mid-80s El Camino tricked out as a lowrider. Why would a middle aged white dude want that? I spent a lot of time in New Mexico and lowriders looked REALLY fun. An El Camino I worked on would be a labor of love -- getting it working and looking good would be the point, not driving.
But I can't pull that off as a middle aged white dude. Just bought a car recently -- I considered the Camry and Prius. Did the former. Still own my older Camry, which Mrs. Zip and I use as a second car. I get no pleasure out of driving -- it is a way to get from point A to point B, period. Don't need more car than that.
But my DREAM car? That would be a '74 Gremlin. Am I joking? NO!!! Why? I had one as a teen. Bought it for $75. Only the passenger side door worked. Stalled all the time and something weird went on with the starter solenoid. BUT I LOVED THAT FUCKING CAR!
I replaced the transmission with my buddy. Two stoned dudes listening to the dead working on the car. Loads o' fun. I still remember the time we forgot a can to catch the transmission fluid and used the can we were using to store nuts we took off. Burned out three solenoid a so we decided to drill a hole into the engine compartment and ran a heavy gauge speaker wire out to it -- would press a switch inside to start. Used to tell girls it was a Led Zepplin car 'cos you "went in through the out door". If a chick doesn't find that shit funny she isn't going to fuck a dude that drives a Gremlin anyway. So it was a screening tool.
What does that piece of crap car mean to me? Youth. Fun. Friendship. Good memories. Cruising to the "hippy hole" in the Jemez (a hot springs where you'd mostly get naked and smoke dope).
And you CANNOT get that for the $100K you'd spend on an S550 (or whatever you lease it for). That piece of crap AMC kicks ass compared Mercedes, Porsche, Lamborghini, etc.
AMC -- BORN TO BE FREE!!!
Or get the 707HP charger, lots of hp under the hood. You get high torque on that too. You can throw superchargers or turbos if you need to raise it higher.
I've got a friend who drives a Porsche for which he paid $135,000. Last winter he had it shipped to Miami so he could hustle young chicks in South Beach. Not bad for a 68 year old.
Porsches (and the like) are actually pretty frequent in South Beach. Actually a lot of tourists rent them for a few days to cruise South Beach – so often times when one sees someone in a flashy car (Porsche; Ferrari; Lamborghini; etc) in South Beach; one does not know if it’s owned or rented (and often times many assume is rented since they are a fairly regular sight).
When I lived in Ocean Club on Key Biscayne, though, someone in the building had a Carrera GT. That was a very rare cool Porsche. My work parking lot has a matte black lambo aventador. That's another show stopping car.
I'm looking for a comfortable daily driver, though, not an uncomfortable exotic. When I want to go somewhere and stop traffic I take my Dodge Viper ACR. Its a rare combination of snake skin green with black racing stripes and black wheels. The ferrari 612 is an impressive car too but much more understated.
OK, steve, name them. While you're at it please provide links plus a numerical tabulation of active Tuscl members and DB members that you draw your conclusions from.
Are you sober now, or has the "buzz" worn off ? I can only recall 3 credible posters (shadowcat, ranukam, and dink0) who posted their annual income. The former was low 6 figures, the later 2 mid-high 5 figures. I recall farmerart mentioning rough figures for his salary/Canadian pension,plus selling his original company for a tidy sum (which would enable him to buy a 6-figure car with nary a belch.) He even told the story of his brief fling with a Ferrari, (or something similar, but then sensibly ditched it for current F150 ride. There are some business owners on site like rickdugan who never mention hard numbers for income, nor what car they drive. I can only assume they drive a nice car, but not an outlandishly expensive one whose sticker price will buy a lot of houses in flyover country. Again, please name the credible Tuscl posters (hint- those who have actually contributed credible reviews) who have stated that they make north of $250K
Surely, you jest. (No, I'm not calling you Shirley). You've got to know that there is a vast range of good vehicles that can be had for between the $114K sticker price for MB550, and, say $8K (a decent midsize car that isn't a POS). Getting popcorn out for LMN posts on test drives......
Dude, are you that fucking clueless? Really?
It has nothing to do with your money. NOTHING. It's about getting control of your life, and stop being a fucking 6 year old brat who does whatever the fuck he wants and has no self discipline whatsoever. Don't you get it?
It's about becoming a different person. A human being. A man. Someone who realizes the world does not revolve around YOU. There are other people in this world, and maybe instead of being a little brat you can fucking contribute to the world in a meaningful way. And maybe when you do that you'll find that all the fucking little problems you're trying to hide from with drugs will dissolve away, because you're life has a greater meaning.
It's NOT about your fucking money. That's the problem. It has nothing to do with you. But you can't fathom that can you?
Grow the fuck up. Man up, and gain a little self respect. If that's possible.
@minnow - So you're saying the posters in this thread are not credible??
https://www.tuscl.net/postread.php?PID=2…
Yeah, I'm a grumpy old fart in that respect. Gone are the days when you had really cool, DIFFERENT looking cars. But nowadays if you asked me to pick out a Cadillac, a Mercedes, a Toyota, and a whatever else in a lineup I'd have a really tough time. They all look the same, IMO. After years of conforming to engineering requirements for fuel efficiency and safety designs and all the other stuff they've been optimizing for decades, the uniqueness is pretty much gone.
A Mustang used to be incredibly unique, as was a Corvette, and a big old Cadillac, and muscle cars were muscle cars with big old cheater slicks...
Maybe I'm just clueless when it comes to cars, but it seems like there's only a 2.3% difference between cars nowadays. Maybe that's enough for some guys, but not for me.