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Originally Posted by McLovin
Wow, I’m there with you.
I thought I’d NEVER tire of cars. They’ve been my passion since I was 10.
As a kid I had many car related motivational life goals. Get a 911 by 25. Ferrari before 40. Etc.
In the 80s I read every page of Road & Track and Car and Driver, cover to cover, over and over (I still have most of them)...
...And I’m not into cars in general. Part of it is my 2 loves, BMW and Porsche, have abandoned me. They make nothing I’m interested in or would want to own and almost certainly never will again.
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I own an air cooled 911 that’s been with me since ‘2004.
Love it.
I own a 996, a 997.2C4S, and now a 2015 991.1GTS with a manual transmission and painted in the most beautiful Sapphire blue metallic color. It is such an amazing car. So tight, and so right in every way. I LOVE that car, and every time I drive the older 911 I am utterly reminded of how far Porsche has moved the game on in every respect, to include reliability. The older 911, while charming and fun in a nostalgic sense, cannot compare in any way to my GTS.
What I’m trying to convey is that we can still love the amazing cars of today without the burden of needing to constantly fiddle with them. To me, that’s a huge part of the appeal. I’ve worked on my babies (my 911’s and other vehicles) most of my life. I’m over it. But that doesn’t mean I’m over owning and enjoying what the newest sports offer. Far from it. Still a car guy through and through. I just don’t feel the need to wrench on them anymore.