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Originally Posted by Capt Spaulding
No, you don't. What matters is what you feel, not what other people see.
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I couldn't agree more!!! Buy a car for what
you think about it, not to impress other people.
Too many people care more about what strangers will think of their car than what they themselves do. Like a friend of mine, who is constantly 'moving up' to the highest 'number' BMW he can afford (which usually means high miles and marginal condition) because he thinks it says he's 'successful'. Likewise, too many people obsess with the 'numbers' of a car, 0-60, 1/4 mile, etc., for some kind of sad bragging rights at the bar or gym.
Who cares?
The only 'arriving' in a car for me is when I get to my destination and turn the engine off. I'm in my 60's, and couldn't care less if some people I care nothing about might think that it's 'inapropriate' for me to be driving such a 'young person's' car, or that I should be driving some more 'age appropriate' car. Who cares what people who don't matter in your life think?
The only thing that matters to me is how a car
feels for me to drive. I don't care about the 'numbers', but if I enjoy going down the road and rowing through the gears. That's all that should count.
Life is short and hard enough as it is. Just focus on making yourself happy and don't worry about impressing other people.