As a kid, growing up in my house playtime for us was in the garage learning of tales of timing combination, the awesome power of V8 engines which at the time, were present mostly in American Cars. Our Dad was a trained and practicing Automobile Engr. As such, our knowledge of Cars was vast and practical in every word.
Now, I’ll ask, how many of us while growing up dreamt of driving/ owning cars with wings that could fly (back to the future) or propellers with which could submerge in water (the spy who loved me) or engines so powerful that made the ground shake when started? But today, global warming, High Fuel prices and the almighty “global recession” has left us living our dreams short. For most, we basically drive cars that are as interesting as toast machines.
Please get me correctly, I don’t expect you go out and buy a car made in Mars: no, no, no ,no. what I’m saying is if you loved the Citreon CX pallass (it had Pneumatic suspension which lowered once the car was parked) go out now and look for the C5 and buy it. Period. If you loved the pointed star from Stuttgart, buy one. I can’t understand why on earth someone will for the sake of wanting to buy a new car will go on and buy a QQ??? Buy a Golf instead!!!!!! A used golf has more value than a brand new QQ!!!!!
I have a friend who drives a jeep liberty, full optioned and all the works, to beat traffic home, we’d take the “Jeep” route (the beach line that goes from oniru all the way to Alpha beach. It’s as close as you’ll ever come to driving the Rubicon trail in Nigeria. It’s a massive adrenaline rush). And so on a faithful day,on our way home, we hit a ditch, punctured the radiator. Total repair costs were over 350,000. Once repaired, I said, I now understand why people buy Toyota’s. I bet you can’t guess what she said, “life is short do not dilute your dreams”. The liberty offered her an off road driving experience the likes no Japanese 4x4 in that class could. At that point, I realized even I was guilty of cutting short my dreams.
So there it is, I charge you. Be brave, be bold be different and even if it costs you a fortune be sure to buy the car you’d seen in your dreams!!!!!