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post #361 of 3467
9/19/12 at 4:35pm

Okay, so what you really need to do is buy her a Mustang then.
 

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post #362 of 3467
9/19/12 at 5:23pm
Why do you think we bought the BMW? I assumed that car would eventually be mine too. Even a worn-out Bimmer is much better than an econobox. My job situation just got in the way of the master plan - instead of the Hyundai, my plan was for her next car to be either another BMW, Audi A6, Volvo S60 or maybe a Hyundai Genesis. Oh well, maybe

Side note: Whoever told the woman that sits right outside my office she could sing did the rest of the world a HUGE disservice. IEMs + Pandora to the rescue!
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post #363 of 3467
9/19/12 at 8:25pm

Wait, so you're getting a BMW then.  Now the real question is what to get her for her mid life crisis right?  Or do I not have the pattern down right?

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post #364 of 3467
9/19/12 at 8:46pm
That *was* the plan - but then we had to spend all our cash during my unemployment. I'm employed now, but not at my old salary and we're still digging out of the hole we dug. So, the plan falls apart. I'm not getting the BMW from her unless it is replaced with something newer and/or better - *that* is the pattern - and that ain't gonna happen for a while. Now, if the stock options I'm getting in lieu of a better salary actually pay off someday (unlike the last 4 companies I worked for!) then we'll be back in good shape...
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post #365 of 3467
9/19/12 at 9:28pm
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For Beemers, the 1M coupe is an awesome car. I test drove one and almost bought it, would have too if it weren't marked up an extra $5k by the profiteering jerks at the dealership. wink.gif
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post #366 of 3467
9/19/12 at 10:07pm
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For Beemers, the 1M coupe is an awesome car. I test drove one and almost bought it, would have too if it weren't marked up an extra $5k by the profiteering jerks at the dealership. wink.gif

Wikipedia says there are only 740 1M coupes in the US. Why did they bring so few to the US and only make the car for about a year?? I saw the Top Gear episode on it - the thing is a serious Kraut-Rakete!!
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post #367 of 3467
9/19/12 at 11:06pm
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Wikipedia says there are only 740 1M coupes in the US. Why did they bring so few to the US and only make the car for about a year?? I saw the Top Gear episode on it - the thing is a serious Kraut-Rakete!!

I think they just made them from the extra Z4 and M3 parts laying around, seriously. They had enough for a few thousand and that was it. The good news is, the new 2013 135is is almost the same thing, minus the cosmetics. You can get the neat M stuff as addons and basically configure one yourself.
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post #368 of 3467
9/20/12 at 9:36am
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For Beemers, the 1M coupe is an awesome car. I test drove one and almost bought it, would have too if it weren't marked up an extra $5k by the profiteering jerks at the dealership. wink.gif

 

 

You should have purchased it. I can offically say that I have more fun it in that that thing than I have in my Porsche. The only downside is the reckless amounts of fun at low speeds has lead to a reckless amount of damage being done to to my wallet. The car has yet to see corner that it hasn't wanted to go sideways through, which is why I'm on my third set of tires in 6000 miles. Hucking the PS2's in the dump and throw on a set on 18" RS3 265s has turned the car from fun to epic. I loves opposite lock like the dickens....

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post #369 of 3467
9/20/12 at 10:01am

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post #370 of 3467
9/20/12 at 11:59am
You need to make her your headphone & audio buddy! Sounds like a good opportunity to get long-term loaners & hand-me-downs.
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post #371 of 3467
9/20/12 at 1:59pm
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Was about to say you've been spending too much time with purrin...

 

Does anyone else think the purrin-as-pirate images look sort of like Maddox?

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My wife also hates minivans and wagons - but that doesn't mean she wants me to have a corvette...
I have gotten the sh!tty end of the stick in every car purchase we have made since we got together. Before we were married, I was driving an RX-7. My next car was a Mazda B2200 pickup because our first house was a fixer and I spent every weekend doing runs to Home Depot. My wife's next car was a Nissan Maxima (5 speed SE version - that was a fun car), and I continued to drive the pick-up until the block cracked and the clutch was gone. Then she got a another Nissan Maxima SE (automatic, but still fun) and I got her old Maxima (which was now a wore out POS). Then she got an Infinity I30 (just like the Maxima, only with very nice leather seats), and I got her old Maxima (which was now a wore out POS - seeing a trend here?). Then she got a BMW 530 (great car), and I got her old Infinity (you guessed it - it was a wore out POS). The only reason I got the Hyundai was that the I30 had 185K miles and the transmission was shot and could no longer be trusted to do 130 miles a day.
Isn't it time for me to get a car *I* want?? Every car I have been handed has already lived a hard life of wife, kids & dog - and then I drove it into the ground and said a prayer over its dead rotting corpse.
But I'm not bitter...
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Get that Renault mini-van then, you know, the one with the F1 engine. See what she says about that - and if it's too expensive, I'm sure Magick could pay to rent it for you for a weekend JUST FOR THE REACTION VIDEO LOLS and no other reason.

And yeah I hear what you're saying otherwise - I vote you get something outrageous like the TERRAFIRMINATOR and see what she says...and I mean as a rental, I think Hertz still rents H2s; just rent that for a weekend, bring it home like Friday night, and see what she does - and then tell her you flipped it doing 90 on the freeway on Monday and want something less ridiculous but still acceptable for your driving. Might or might not work...tongue.gif
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Today I learned to never judge a book by it's cover. My client's wife who is comfortably on the wrong side of a  deuce and a half (which happens to be our secret call sign for her) manage to walk myself and a coworker into the ground today. I thought it was a joke when some of my friend started playing "Eye of the tiger" as we walked out of the house; little did I know, they were serious. I have no idea how this women is so close to weighing in at 3 bills. We had to cover somewhere around 15 miles in the 9 hours she sent shopping at the Mall of Dubai, the Wafi Mall, and Mall of the Emirates. If US soldiers could clear a room like the this women can clear a shoe store, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars would have be over in 3 months with 0 combat deaths. She racked up $127,000 bill without batting a eye.

As may coworker put it "that was my Ranger School...... and I went to Ranger School". I agreed.

I laughed, I cried, and then I laughed more.
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post #372 of 3467
9/20/12 at 2:03pm
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Busy week. I got in the WES and set it up, and I'm instantly smitten with it. It looks and sounds fantastic. Since I have it and the GES here for the time being, I'm going to do a little comparo between the two.


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You should have purchased it. I can offically say that I have more fun it in that that thing than I have in my Porsche. The only downside is the reckless amounts of fun at low speeds has lead to a reckless amount of damage being done to to my wallet. The car has yet to see corner that it hasn't wanted to go sideways through, which is why I'm on my third set of tires in 6000 miles. Hucking the PS2's in the dump and throw on a set on 18" RS3 265s has turned the car from fun to epic. I loves opposite lock like the dickens....

I ended up getting an E60 M5, which was a great but substantially flawed car. I traded that in for a new Carrera S, which is more fun but also flawed, there are times when I need a bigger car to haul around 4 adults or decent amount of stuff. What I'm going to do is keep the Porsche and get a nice, low-mileage `07 Caddie CTS-V sedan. I loved the one I had and wish I hadn't traded it.
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post #373 of 3467
9/20/12 at 5:51pm
He drives a caddie...

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post #374 of 3467
9/20/12 at 11:21pm
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A boss always drives a Caddie.


My wife is going, "OMG, the car will be here tomorrow". She's as excited as a little kid and it's really cute.
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post #375 of 3467
9/20/12 at 11:24pm
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A boss always drives a Caddie.

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My wife is going, "OMG, the car will be here tomorrow". She's as excited as a little kid and it's really cute.

Does it have online tracking? Have you hooked her up with a web browser and a hotkey refresh? very_evil_smiley.gif

Also, pics of the unloading would be neato. Especially if it's on some big burly car transporter with a lift and all that, you know, like NASCAR; not just some guy's RAM3500 with a fifth wheel.
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