Sporty's next car

[hotrodalex]

Riding your motorcycle in NYC traffic is also probably like sex for women. All you really want to do is get off and get on with your day, but instead you have to sit there doing all kinds of work while getting yelled at, getting all sweaty and ruining your hair, and wondering the entire time why you went with the "sport" model over the "luxury" one.

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[Cookie Monster]

I agree, but some cars can strike a good compromise. Sports sedans/coupes are pretty ideal for blending driving pleasure with comfort. First generation TSX 4 banger with 6MT? Comfortable, fun, surprisingly economical, with a smooth engine and some modding potential.

I still wouldn't enjoy driving that in traffic. But I'd probably enjoy being in that more in traffic than my car.


My school was the worst. Nothing worse than being stuck in traffic going up a steep hill with some other dickwad parked on your rear bumper. I just skipped on buying the $450 parking permit ( ) and either listened to music on the bus or just biked up, which was faster than driving or the bus, and woke me up by the time I got to campus.


But according to Raza, I'm not a car enthusiast since I don't enjoy sitting in stop and go traffic.

[Laconian]

I don't think any car could be *fun* in stop and go, except maybe for one that dispensed mechanical blowjobs when the car is safe and stationary.

[hotrodalex]

I don't think any car could be *fun* in stop and go, except maybe for one that dispensed mechanical blowjobs when the car is safe and stationary.

A motorcycle would be the best, actually. Just split the lanes and be on your way.

(I'd never do that, though. Don't trust cars enough to see me coming up right next to them)

[sportyaccordy]

Splitting lanes can be OK. Just have to go at a pace that matches your skills.

[Raza]

When the whole ride is bumper to bumper, essentially, what is there to enjoy? The brief rip down my block and across the park? A bad drive is a bad drive, whether you delude yourself it isn't or not.

Yeah, if you only get to drive in bumper to bumper traffic, move. 

[Raza]

But according to Raza, I'm not a car enthusiast since I don't enjoy sitting in stop and go traffic.

You said saving gas is better than driving. 

[Cookie Monster]

You said saving gas is better than driving. 

Yeah, I'd rather not waste gas on boring driving. I save my gasoline to go bombing around the back roads in the mountains instead. IMO it's way more fun to ride a bicycle or skateboard instead of sitting in traffic, and you also get to save gas and burn it all having fun on twisty roads instead. It's a win-win situation and I don't understand how you don't see it as anything else.

[Raza]

Yeah, I'd rather not waste gas on boring driving. I save my gasoline to go bombing around the back roads in the mountains instead. IMO it's way more fun to ride a bicycle or skateboard instead of sitting in traffic, and you also get to save gas and burn it all having fun on twisty roads instead. It's a win-win situation and I don't understand how you don't see it as anything else.

Different strokes, I guess.  I'd rather sit in traffic than use a skateboard, but I guess I can see how always being in bumper to bumper traffic would sour you on driving.

[Cookie Monster]

Different strokes, I guess.  I'd rather sit in traffic than use a skateboard, but I guess I can see how always being in bumper to bumper traffic would sour you on driving.

Your commute is also so far that riding a bicycle or skateboard is out of the question.

[Colonel Cadillac]

If 90% of driving is boring to you then either you need a better car or you need to move.  A great car makes even mundane driving feel special.  

+1

Mr Call_911 says the A4 is boring, but I thoroughly enjoy driving 90% of the time. Just drop her in 2nd and hit 6000 RPM and then the rest of life's problems will go away.

[sportyaccordy]

Different strokes, I guess.  I'd rather sit in traffic than use a skateboard, but I guess I can see how always being in bumper to bumper traffic would sour you on driving.

We are not sour on driving completely. I would rather drive than ride my bicycle to my parents place for example. When I lived out by my parents I didn't mind the commute both to work and into the city for school- largely because I wasn't stuck in traffic. But now the best way for me to commute is by bicycle. Not a knock on driving or my motorcycle, just my take on my situation. What works for you doesn't work for everybody.

[Colonel Cadillac]

I'm baffled how anyone with a Miata can be sour on driving. That shit cray.

[Vinsanity]

I'm baffled how anyone with a Miata can be sour on driving. That shit cray.

My old NA Miata was a wonderful car to zip around town in, but miserable in rush-hour traffic.

[MrH]

You know what they say about the statistical significance of anecdotes. And whose to say nothing will come of it. Generally if I start talking about buying something, I buy it... been the case with the bike, camera, phone etc. We are trying to leave NYC and when we do I will need a car. You dont like the thread, don't post in it... o wait, too late 

And yea this car would pretty much be a bad weather/road trip kind of car, so consumables and all that are not really that big of a deal.

Lol you want to talk statistics? Go ahead and look up some facts on an E39 M5. They're laughably bad.

[sportyaccordy]

Lol you want to talk statistics? Go ahead and look up some facts on an E39 M5. They're laughably bad.

Dude, take a walk.

[MrH]

Dude, take a walk.

Is that just slang for you don't want to deal with the reality of your make-believe car buying scenario?  Ok, just clarifying.

[850CSi]

Lol you want to talk statistics? Go ahead and look up some facts on an E39 M5. They're laughably bad.

[citation needed]

[cawimmer430]

Can I interest you in some classic 1970s American land yacht? 

Or how about a 1980s Chevrolet Citation. Those actually looked very cool. Still do. 

[sportyaccordy]

Is that just slang for you don't want to deal with the reality of your make-believe car buying scenario?  Ok, just clarifying.

What reality is there to deal with? Have I lied to anyone here? We all know I'm not buying this car soon, and I never said I was :shrug:. This is no different from those other "WWYD w/30K for a car" threads, but with a twist. Why does it bother you so much (which it clearly does)? Like I said, take a walk, its nowhere near as serious as you're trying to make it to be.

[MexicoCityM3]

Can I interest you in some classic 1970s American land yacht? 

Or how about a 1980s Chevrolet Citation. Those actually looked very cool. Still do. 

Man, it was bad enough with the 70's land-barge fetish. Now you're progressing into Citations. What's next? K-cars and Omnis?