Originally Posted by Ubetit (Post 2684521)

You guys crack me up. As much as most of you say you are going to keep your car forever, you aren't. Just be honest with yourself. Most of you are young enough where your lives will be in different places in as little as 5 or 10 years from now. You'll have wives, kids and need to haul **** for the house. Some of you will get stuck driving minivans. Trust me, to some, it's happening. You'll need practical or you'll need enough money to afford practical and a toy. You'll also want a three car garage or storage for your toy that you are keeping forever. You don't want that valuable toy sitting in the rain or snow you know. That's expensive so you better make plenty of money and not all of you will. Sorry, that's also a fact.

Cars also age. It's one thing to own a 1-5 year old car and think it's going to be "fresh" like that forever. It's entirely another thing to actually own a 15-20 year old car.

Also, for those not going the kid-wife-practical route, In the future, some new great model will be out that you have to have and you'll look at your Z as a nice down payment and a hassle to own 2 toys, one now aging.

There may be one or two of you to actually keep it. The guy with the 280 for 20+ I might believe. The rest of you, nope.

Me? I learned that cars have no souls. I used to get attached. Now, out with the old and in with the new. Next up, New Corvette.

Originally Posted by Ubetit (Post 2684521)

You guys crack me up. As much as most of you say you are going to keep your car forever, you aren't.

It's one thing to own a 1-5 year old car and think it's going to be "fresh" like that forever. It's entirely another thing to actually own a 15-20 year old car.

There may be one or two of you to actually keep it. The guy with the 280 for 20+ I might believe. The rest of you, nope.

Originally Posted by DEpointfive0 (Post 2683902)

Just get a wife to drive the kids around in a van, lol

Originally Posted by Chuck33079 (Post 2684547)

See, in my opinion it's the later years of car ownership that become really enjoyable. It's paid off so you can afford to mod the **** out of it. You've worked on it so much that you know how to fix anything, and it becomes easy to take care of any problems that pop up since you've done everything a couple of times before.

Originally Posted by RonRizz (Post 2684726)

Please don't let my 1993 Toyota Corolla know what you think. She would be very disappointed. Only 104k and running like new!!
None ever said you can't keep the old and buy new. I'm hanging on to the toyota, a 1996 Saturn ls2, a 1996 outback I bought used, A 1999 Jeep cherokee, my 99 sebring just went to junk, a 2010 Malibu, and the 2011 370.
Hell, I just bought a new John deere last summer, and kept my 10 year old Yardman "Just in case".
Don't tell me I can't keep what I have forever!! Lol

Originally Posted by kenchan (Post 2684729)

is that your diy for today? lol

problem with life? call DE's wife. :D

Originally Posted by Ubetit (Post 2684758)

Well sure, hoarders keep everything. ;)

Originally Posted by Ubetit (Post 2684753)

You know what's worse than an aging car? An modded to the hilt aging car. ;)

Originally Posted by Chuck33079 (Post 2684891)

Maybe to someone who doesn't enjoy getting their hands dirty. ;) Some of us enjoy having a project.

Originally Posted by Chuck33079 (Post 2684891)

Maybe to someone who doesn't enjoy getting their hands dirty. ;) Some of us enjoy having a project.

Originally Posted by JungleZ (Post 2681870)

After my lease . $18,000 buy out... No thanks! This car was a big let down I had major plans for twin turbo fast intentions and everything but no thanks.

Originally Posted by z man (Post 2685259)

I fully agree, my Z has been a big let down to me. I expected (reliability) more than what this car has provided to me. Just getting 50,000 miles out of this car has been quite an event....this is my first and last Nissan product. Well at least, I can say I gave this brand a try.