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Originally Posted by naticedog04
Bottom line... If u cant turn around and look at ur car while walking away and say, "damn, she's sexy, or damn i still love her", you've done something wrong...
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Not necessarily. I felt the same way about this:
But then I needed to get a small, practical car for commuting. And made the mistake of buying this:
And found out that handling and corner speed are way more important than outright power, even with the added bonus of beauty and classic status. The pretty pony ended up sitting in the garage while I spent my weekends autocrossing and my week days enjoying my back roads commute like I'd never done before.
One thing I learned with both of these cars, and germane, I think, to the conversation, is this: Engineering involves compromises. You trade gains in performance or light weight with losses in reliability or longevity or your bank balance. All cars are the product of engineering decisions, based on the desires of the target customer. So any time you deviate in one area, you may very well raise issues in other areas. I think the OP's post documents this quite nicely. It's just part of the game.