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Originally Posted by JoeC
I don't understand why you need to test drive something if you are not prepared to buy it. If a car comes up for sale and you're ready to buy it, go test drive it. If you don't like it, move on.
You must have an astounding amount of free time if you're test driving the "mundane cars" that you might be in the market for in a few years.
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The reason is that I don't want to test drive a particular car for buying, I want to test drive a car to device which car I like. For example, if in 5 years I want to replace the BRZ with something more fun and decide I want to check out a Series 2 Elise, a 987 Cayman and a MR2 Spyder, these cars would be 15 to 25 years old. Say I see an Elise for sale, test drive it and like it, how do I know I won't like the MR2 better? Or the Cayman? So I decide to wait until I can get a test drive on them as well. While I'm waiting the Elise is sold. I would much rather know what I'll want and then wait for a good car to show up.
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Originally Posted by WolfpackS2k
^^I would join online forums that specialize in those cars, to learn more about them, but more importantly (in context of this topic) to start interacting with people that own those vehicles. By doing that you can probably build enough trust with charitable individuals that live near you. At least enough to look over a car in detail and ride shotgun. All likelihood enough trust to have some let you drive their cars.
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That's a great suggestion, but does involve a lot of effort, especially if I'm interested in multiple cars. I've actually saw a few posts like that in the past in enthusiast forums and the responses were fairly supportive. Thanks!