I wanted a flashy ride since I was a kid, and was finally in a place where I could afford to be the 3rd hand owner of a Japanese bargain model well into my 30s, only to be wrapped with a sense of guilt and futility. Now, when I see an actual super car on the street, the first thing that I think about is how the owner MUST have more money than brains to be driving it on poorly maintained public roads. I freak out over bumps and potholes in a $20K used car that was actually engineered to be a daily driver, I couldn't imagine the feeling in a $200K one engineered for a track.
Bump
"Well, that's going to cost the equivalent of putting a child through college to fix. "
Audis are the fucking worst about this, too, since you have to disassemble half of the front end just to do anything more involved than changing the oil on most of them.
Volkswagen delenda est and all that. Pretty much the only "luxury" brands even worth considering are Lexus and Acura, since they're still just rebadged Toyotas and Hondas. Well, except for the Lexus LS series -- those were purpose-built to last forever, and are amazing. I'd still have a heart attack if I hit a pothole in one, though. At least in a Tesla, you won't live long enough to regret it.
I feel the same way about my Ural. I got it for under 5 grand but I treat it like it's a brand new Ducati, I can't imagine actually owning an expensive liter bike and trying to ride it around on these roads lmao.
I wanted a flashy ride since I was a kid, and was finally in a place where I could afford to be the 3rd hand owner of a Japanese bargain model well into my 30s, only to be wrapped with a sense of guilt and futility. Now, when I see an actual super car on the street, the first thing that I think about is how the owner MUST have more money than brains to be driving it on poorly maintained public roads. I freak out over bumps and potholes in a $20K used car that was actually engineered to be a daily driver, I couldn't imagine the feeling in a $200K one engineered for a track.
Bump
"Well, that's going to cost the equivalent of putting a child through college to fix. "
Audis are the fucking worst about this, too, since you have to disassemble half of the front end just to do anything more involved than changing the oil on most of them.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Audi/comments/feo99h/r8_spyder_basic_service_position/
Volkswagen delenda est and all that. Pretty much the only "luxury" brands even worth considering are Lexus and Acura, since they're still just rebadged Toyotas and Hondas. Well, except for the Lexus LS series -- those were purpose-built to last forever, and are amazing. I'd still have a heart attack if I hit a pothole in one, though. At least in a Tesla, you won't live long enough to regret it.
I feel the same way about my Ural. I got it for under 5 grand but I treat it like it's a brand new Ducati, I can't imagine actually owning an expensive liter bike and trying to ride it around on these roads lmao.