New Car - Head or Heart?

[PurpleGorilla]

You've got very expensive taste for a socialist monkey.

It's easy spending other people's money [emoji18]

[NotAllThere]

Heart.

Very soon my kids will all be financially independent, and we'll wave bye bye to the Volvo XC70 (which is a decent practical car, but a bit dull).

[PurpleGorilla]

Indeed cars are like girlfriends would you rather be in a hot sexy one, stripped bare / champagne and fun, but high maintenance but smiles most days, or a comfy cheap cake eater that does a job

Plenty of room and very comfy.

[emoji33]

[AtW]

Very soon my kids will all be financially independent, and we'll wave bye bye to the Volvo XC70 (which is a decent practical car, but a bit dull).

Aygo?

[ChimpMaster]

If you want luxury and power, try the BMW M6 or M5. Get a fully loaded one, say 4 or 5 years old with low mileage, and enjoy that 0-60 in 4.2 seconds.

[stek]

I've test driven both a Tesla S and the Maser QP, the Tesla is everything better, but it's fooking boring, and expensive, but I was comparing new tech vs old to see if I could go with it. Still love the noise of a proper petrol engine, well, a tuned one not a 1.1 ltr Pug 206 engine...

Being the age I am, still look on a car as a luxury, perhaps I'd better start thinking of one as a device, like an iPad. Otherwise I'll start spunking money on a yestertech pipe dream.

Eff me, I am finally my Dad now.....

[greenlake]

Not driven for a long time, sold my car a while back, now I'm looking at jumping back in, dunno whether go for sensible, or second mid life crisis....

The Ladybird Book of the Mid-Life Crisis - Amazon

[NotAllThere]

Aygo?

Kids have a C1 - essentially the same. Quite fun to drive, but I prefer slightly higher HP.

[TestMangler]

The Ladybird Book of the Mid-Life Crisis - Amazon

With a Rover 3500 and a Hillman Hunter on the cover

[stek]

With a Rover 3500 and a Hillman Hunter on the cover

And a Capri, a Mustang and sticking my neck out here, an Oldsmobile Toronado....

Maybe a Cadillac Eldorado tho - same car, different bits and badges....