People's Reaction to Your New FR-S

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Quentin

My mom was really impressed with it. :/


Sent from Tandy 400

Mine as well and she is 80 years old! She still finds excuses to have me drive her places.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Hmmmmm wonder how they could confuse the two????

haha... those 2 jagoffs?

[SquadRogue]

Nice wheels, nice car, people looking at the car in awe and wondering what the hell is it

[Liquidsnake]

Kids walking with their parents do love the car. They think its a spaceship.

[billyk]

Anyone else over 40 get this:

"Hey, nice mid-life crisis car"

[Hydaral]

Originally Posted by billyk

Anyone else over 40 get this:

"Hey, nice mid-life crisis car"

The guy I work with (26yo) said "looks like a mid-life crisis car" when he saw it, I'm 36.

[billyk]

Originally Posted by Hydaral

I'm 36.

I feel better now.

[Quentin]

Originally Posted by billyk

Anyone else over 40 get this:



"Hey, nice mid-life crisis car"

I'm 32, but I embrace the midlife crisis aspect... because it was. I clearly remember the drive where I hatched my plan to get the FR-S. By the time I made it into the next town, I'd figured out how to shuffle the fleet around in a way that would work for my wife. I traded my trusty 4Runner for a RAV4 for her, bought out my company car (Prius v) lease, sold the v 10 months later, took delivery of my new company car... my 2015 FR-S.


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[billyk]

Originally Posted by Quentin

I'm 32, but I embrace the midlife crisis aspect... because it was. I clearly remember the drive where I hatched my plan to get the FR-S. By the time I made it into the next town, I'd figured out how to shuffle the fleet around in a way that would work for my wife. I traded my trusty 4Runner for a RAV4 for her, bought out my company car (Prius v) lease, sold the v 10 months later, took delivery of my new company car... my 2015 FR-S.


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Cool story - good planning! Not getting the crisis part, nor the mid-life part.

To me, mid-life crises need to involve overweight, balding dudes in their 40's that are about to implode from the pressures of a nagging wife, horrific kids, too many bills, high-blood pressure and a boring-ass career number-crunching in a cubicle.

[Quentin]

Originally Posted by billyk

Cool story - good planning! Not getting the crisis part, nor the mid-life part.



To me, mid-life crises need to involve overweight, balding dudes in their 40's that are about to implode from the pressures of a nagging wife, horrific kids, too many bills, high-blood pressure and a boring-ass career number-crunching in a cubicle.

Balding: check (I keep it buzzed, though)
Number-crunching career: check (engineer in automotive... it is a lot of number crunching for feasibility studies and project planning)

Healthy, good wife, good kid, no bill stress, though.

I guess you get to a point in your life where you need a release from being responsible about everything all the time. Buying a relatively stupid car that makes me smile every day gives me that release.


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[CB750F]

I'm 53, not fat, not bald, good wife, good kids.... embrace the crisis, you'll like it!

[agent47]

All the guys at work give me a hard time because it's not a v8 or a "real" sports car. The only thing they understand is straight line speed.

[Quentin]

Originally Posted by agent47

All the guys at work give me a hard time because it's not a v8 or a "real" sports car. The only thing they understand is straight line speed.

Find a twisty road and make them wet their pants. There are several roads around here where the car's cornering ability frightens me at 7/10th.


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[agent47]

Originally Posted by Quentin

Find a twisty road and make them wet their pants. There are several roads around here where the car's cornering ability frightens me at 7/10th.


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Yea I agree, I've been pushing it a little around on/off ramps and it is simply amazing. I can't wait to take a trip to the hill country around san antonio/austin texas where there are some really good twisty roads.

I knew going in that I would get crap for buying it but I really don't care. It's exactly what I wanted in a car. Twice the gas mileage of my truck is nice too.