2014 Subaru BRZ STi

Knurled wrote:

NOHOME wrote: You live in a different reality than some of us... Winter of 2011:

Drive a nice car in the winter? Sacrilege! I guess maybe if you're going to throw it away after a few years anyway, but I'd venture most GRMers aren't the kind to get a new car every three years because OMG TEH NEIGHBORS WHAT WILL THEY THINK

My philosophy is I want ten years out of a car and the it goes to the recyclers. Gives me plenty of time to save up the $$$ for the next one. At that point the maintenance cost pretty much matches the depreciation cost over another ten years, so might as well drive a new car.

Since I am not hung up on body appearances, (stopped washing cars after the Miata) and cars will pretty much make it though ten years without rusting out dangerously, the plan seems to work.

I do get a lot of flack at work for driving a dirty black car though

NOHOME wrote: Northern paradise!

What is this oxymoron you speak of?

We have weird curbs where I live and the only one of our vehicles that I don't have to back into the driveway and drive out very slowly is the SUV. Miata, Celica, 350z (and my buddies WRX wagon) all drag the nose if you back out of the drive no matter how slowly and when you drive out forwards you have to go real slow to avoid bashing something. We don't have sloped driveway entrances, the same rounded curb is used everywhere. I guess it is so the builders don't have to plan where they are going to put the driveway?

In reply to Knurled:

I bought my WRX new last fall just to drive it in the winter. Sort of an inverse winter beater. Parked the Mini and the Miata and drove the subie until spring. It is the nicest car I have in many ways.