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03-31-2014 12:29 PM |
Prescription Filled!!!
It's hard to believe sometimes but I am in that mid-life crisis time warp. I have owned 40+ cars (I think,.... lost track somewhere) and this car is by far the best of all worlds. I've been there done that with the family cars, pick-ups, mini vans, mid class luxury, motorcycles and old school muscle.
I remember when I saw the first FR-S commercial years ago and thinking wow, it would be really cool to have that car. I think I saw the commercial twice and never saw it again. So I completely forgot about it. As an insurance claims adjuster I inspect over 1000 cars a year for accident damages and etc.... And it wasn't until I think this past December, I was inspecting a 10 Series that had been key scratched on every panel and every light lens. (What a shame). It wasn't til I pulled up to the shop and saw it sitting there that I realized what I was going to see. It was as if the car looked at me and said "hey, remember me?" I thought, they made this thing for real. WOW...... I sat in the drivers seat to get some info for my report and just couldn't believe the emotions that we're running thru me. It was visually pleasing at every turn. And I hadn't even heard it run. So over the last 90+ days I have literally watched 100's of YouTube videos and reading every review I could get my eyes on and much to my surprise no one had any real negative issues with this car. And I thought, that's unusual. There is always a hand full of haters. But I couldn't seem to find any real ones. Seems those who tried to hate, always ended up giving credit where it was due in the end.
So I went and drove one....... Big mistake. I didnt want to get out of it. Wanted just to drop the sales guy off and say see ya later. After that I couldn't go what seemed like 10 min without drooling in my mind about owning one. I could make that car pull hard at every shift, much like the Harley V-Rod I sold just months prior. It put that crazy grin on my face all over again. So, I looked at our cars and said something has to go. The '08 Ram Mega Cab drew the short stick. It cost over $100 to fill that baby up and it got MAYBE 14mpg. Kids are grown with their own cars and I have another truck anyway. Friday nite we washed her up and drove to carmax. They offered 11k. Thought it was a decent deal and figured we'd go on Saturday and sell her off. Instead we were 2 blocks from Toyota and said what the heck, let's see what they will offer us. (It's paid off anyway). When they offered 13k it was a no brainer. Biggest down payment I ever made in my life. I just paid for half the car with my trade.
So of course we spent pretty much the entire weekend cruising.
I have always said I would never own a "super" car because you can't do with them what they are really intended to do - legally. You have to be well over the speed limit to get your monies worth, in my humble opinion. The FR-S is truly a drivers car.
I can now say that Scion wrote the perfect prescription to cure the mid-life crisis. My prescription was filled on March 28th at 10pm with a 2014 Firestorm FR-S -6spd manual with BeSpoke/Nav.
Well that's MY story...... Wait I think I hear my wife calling, guess I get to make another trip to the store, hummm what will I forget this time. LOL
More stories to come.....
(Heck of a first post - couldn't help it)
Glad to be a part of the group.
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