Quote Originally Posted by Hosakawa Tito View Post
The fact that he's payed for it himself with money he worked & had the discipline to save toward the purchase, instead of it being a gift, pretty much assures that he'll take care of his baby or pay the consequences.
It's not just the financial responsibility. It's the experience you get from taking care of an old car that you just don't get from a new car. My first car was a '86 corona station wagon, 2 years my senior. Unfortunately it only lasted about 2 years because they are the perfect burnout car, upside of that being that I got plenty of experience in fixing it. My cousin had an old concrete landing stip on his property and we used to test our car's capabilities on it. I surprised everyone, including myself, by getting my beast up to 200km/h, smoked it in first and second, and even chirped in third. It even got up to 100km/h just in second.

Plus a new car doesn't have any character. How can you fall in love with such a shiny new contraption like his car? I miss my beast