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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
I thought we were talking about fun cars we might like to own just for the fun of driving them, and you said you had a Mustang for that purpose, and I said, to each his own, but I never thought Mustangs were much fun to drive. If I'm going to get a second car as a summer toy (whether it's $12k or $50k or more) I at least want it to be appreciably more fun than my daily driver. And to me, that one's not. That was my point.
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Okay, that's fine but it wasn't the conversation we were having. I like talking about dream cars, too. Here's mine FWIW:
But there was a conversation going on with an aside about affordable summer toys. So your budget of $50K makes no sense in that context.
And if you don't think Mustangs are fun to drive - particularly from a cost:fun ratio, which is the segment in which they fight - then I think you're going to have to back that up a little if you really want to talk cars. I get not wanting one. They're a bit "banger" if you care about how you're perceived in that way, but on the other hand they
never fail to put a smile on somebody's face who likes driving cars.
I had an '87 fox and that thing was hilarious. Smoke shows sound like the lamest way to spend five seconds and a liter of gas until you do one. I'd take people for rides in that car, do a smoke show and have them laughing their heads off. It sounds like you're in the middle of a thundercloud when you're car is just sitting there with smoke billowing out of the tires, the thing's vibrating like mad and yet your not going anywhere. Again, I know it sounds stupid and looks stupid to a lot of people on the outside, but that is a type of fun that can't be had in a CX5 or whatever crossover it is that you have.
If you didn't have fun driving a Mustang, it was because you were not driving it the right way. If you just toodled around then yeah, they're not that special. It's never fun moderately accelerating from a green light, rounding a merge in a tame way, etc. no matter what you're driving. The fun in a Mustang is
using that light ass end, RWD and horsepower/gearing to do things that regular cars can't.
And that fun is available at a price that is accessible to a very high percentage of people compared to a lot of the cars we've been seeing over the past few pages in this thread, including your RS6 and your FX. I'm sure cruising on a yaht is super fun, but I doubt I'll ever do it. Ripping around on a jetski is also fun, and I do that every summer. When something fun is accessible to a broader range of people, there is value in that.
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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Doesn't really require a page of back and forth; if you like driving your Mustang then more power to you. Was just a comment in a thread about cars that I don't really like the way that one drives. I drove a civic for a couple years and that's not a good comparable, but in principle that's sort of what I'm getting at; I never got much more out of the experience than "well, this is a car". Not, "this is a fun performance-oriented machine".
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I just picture you with a deadpan face rowing through the gears in my car, fishtailing around corners, top down, kids saying "nice car" (16 year olds love Mustangs and it's fun to see them get excited), dudes asking you to "light 'em up" at a light and then smiling when you do.
Sorry man, you can not like them all you want and I get that (they handle like ####, they sound a bit obnoxious, plastics are cheap, they're a bit rattly and I could go on), but saying they're not fun is where you completely lose me.