[Porsche-O-Phile]

Agreed. Too much government regulation and too much incestual merging/combining in the auto industry have made design pretty homogenous and boring these days. I could probably name two dozen cars that fundamentally all look the same with only minor styling variations and which come overwhelmingly in one of four or five shades of "practical show-no-dirt gray/metallic". Blah.

Like the man said, appliances. They're intended to be discarded after four or five years in order to keep people hooked on payments in perpetuity.

Get a good, soulful, fun, enjoyable and distinctive car, drive it for 20 years sans payments. Repeat as necessary every 15-20 years. Works for me.

I really like not making payments to banks. I mean I really, REALLY, R-E-A-L-L-Y like not making payments to banks, especially for something that would bore the crap out of me after about 37 seconds.