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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
"Thrill" got nothing to do with it at this point.
All I'm looking for is the least ugly, most interesting of a bad lot of faceless crossovers. None of them look worth a damn. They're all overpriced because the market is insane on them. Meanwhile I could get a !@#$ing Charger hellcat for $14K under sticker because God hates parents.
But the Traverse is the least ugly, at least until the Ascent comes out. All the rest of them are minivans (Pilot), bricks (Explorer and Atlas) or designed by assholes that think nobody wants leather and a middle bench (Highlander). Or they're just riding around on an old platform and last gen tech (4-runner...Ugh, I wish Toyota would spend a little money refreshing that thing; love 'em).
The Volvo is too nice and too expensive to bother with now that it's just going to be covered in vomit for the next 18 months. And a lease until the new '19 explorer and ascent comes out doesn't get me around the whole 'eat shit on the first year value loss' thing; a 1 yr lease might as well be setting money on fire.
So I'll just push it as long as I can and see if I can fit some narrow-ass car seats in a Sonata. Or put the convertable in the front and turn the airbag off. If my vehicle is hauling children, it's just to daycare and back.
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You're spot on (per usual), but I just can't bring myself to care.
Honestly what I need from a car is:
1. Needs to Run.
2. Needs to be comfortable.
3. Needs to not be a complete dog (Getting more and more difficult to find)
4. Needs to be easy to keep clean
After that, I'm just looking for value. Not necessarily the cheapest mile. I don't want to run junk but I'm not overpaying for a ****ing
car.
I've concluded that, yes, I'm old and boring. Accordingly, I don't care if my wife is driving the same ****ing minivan-that's-not-quite-a-minivan as 30% of the rest of the parents in my shitty little town that have a reasonable income. Certainly not to the point that I want to double my cash outflow to get better.
So I'll continue to buy a couple year old functional vehicles and try to keep getting the best value I can.