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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #3346 on: July 03, 2025, 10:56:59 AM »
your wife disagrees
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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #3347 on: July 03, 2025, 11:04:24 AM »
Yeah, she loathes RVs but that is entirely due to her French experiences, which are very different from ours.

She also says she'd be cleaning and cooking and taking care of me if we had one, not on vacation, so instead, we stay in rented condos ...


... where she, um, cleans, and cooks, and takes care of me.
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« Reply #3348 on: July 03, 2025, 11:08:24 AM »
RVs can go places rentals aren't.  I can park directly on the beach at Padre Island National Seashore, 5 miles down, and have a half-mile of beach all to myself. Ain't no condo or hotel can reproduce that. 

It's also nice knowing that my bed and sheets are my own, and no strangers have ever... soiled... them.

But there are plenty of times we rent a hotel room or VRBO as well.  I can't get my RV to Playa del Carmen.  Well, not safely, anyway.

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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #3349 on: July 03, 2025, 11:10:53 AM »


Is this where I put this?
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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #3350 on: July 03, 2025, 11:11:38 AM »
Yeah, we have quite a few fans of Mustangs here, especially convertibles.
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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #3351 on: July 03, 2025, 11:13:53 AM »
absolutely
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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #3352 on: July 03, 2025, 11:21:36 AM »
Took the boy out last weekend test driving cars, and we drove this one. 


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« Reply #3353 on: July 03, 2025, 11:58:05 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on July 03, 2025, 11:21:36 AM
Took the boy out last weekend test driving cars, and we drove this one.



It better have been a manual transmission!
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« Reply #3354 on: July 03, 2025, 12:17:25 PM »
Quote from: brisco_0317 on July 03, 2025, 11:58:05 AM
It better have been a manual transmission!
Heh I wish!  It's just the turbo4, not the V8.  Still, if we can fine one with the paddle shifters, that'll be enough. He doesn't know how to drive manual and we don't have one for him to practice on, anyway.
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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #3355 on: July 03, 2025, 12:22:31 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on July 03, 2025, 12:17:25 PM
Heh I wish!  It's just the turbo4, not the V8.  Still, if we can fine one with the paddle shifters, that'll be enough. He doesn't know how to drive manual and we don't have one for him to practice on, anyway.

I wonder how common manual transmissions are anymore....or available.  The last and only stick I drove was a 1997 model.  Back then, and it seemed for a good while afterward as far as I knew, you had the option in many makes/models to have either the manual or automatic.  I'm hearing now that a lot of models don't even offer the manual.  

I also wonder if covid fallout permanently changed the supply and options of vehicles in that respect, and others.  I know dealerships don't have as many cars on their lots as they used to, at least not around here, and a lot of the cars they move are ordered and not bought off the lot.  

Just seems like a lot of stuff has changed as far as options.  
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« Reply #3356 on: July 03, 2025, 12:26:04 PM »
The sport(y) cars we're looking at all have options for manual transmissions.  My son says he really wants one, mostly because of watching F&F movies where they always seem to be able to downshift over and over again and go way faster each time.  I told him... don't believe everything you see in the movies.  Or on TikTok.

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« Reply #3357 on: July 03, 2025, 12:28:18 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on July 03, 2025, 12:17:25 PM
Heh I wish!  It's just the turbo4, not the V8.  Still, if we can fine one with the paddle shifters, that'll be enough. He doesn't know how to drive manual and we don't have one for him to practice on, anyway.

Mine is a GT500 Shelby Cobra.  The first time I left it with a valet, I learned that none of the valets could drive stick and I was shocked. 

My 13 year old daughter keeps joking with me that she’ll learn how to drive stick on my Mustang - no, that’s the last car you want to learn with lol. 
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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #3358 on: July 03, 2025, 12:30:27 PM »
Quote from: MikeDeTiger on July 03, 2025, 12:22:31 PM
I wonder how common manual transmissions are anymore....or available.  The last and only stick I drove was a 1997 model.  Back then, and it seemed for a good while afterward as far as I knew, you had the option in many makes/models to have either the manual or automatic.  I'm hearing now that a lot of models don't even offer the manual. 

I also wonder if covid fallout permanently changed the supply and options of vehicles in that respect, and others.  I know dealerships don't have as many cars on their lots as they used to, at least not around here, and a lot of the cars they move are ordered and not bought off the lot. 

Just seems like a lot of stuff has changed as far as options. 

They are getting harder and harder to find and if you want one, you will likely have to order it.  I work in the industry, COVID had nothing to do with it.
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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #3359 on: July 03, 2025, 12:42:42 PM »
Quote from: brisco_0317 on July 03, 2025, 12:28:18 PM
Mine is a GT500 Shelby Cobra.  The first time I left it with a valet, I learned that none of the valets could drive stick and I was shocked.

My 13 year old daughter keeps joking with me that she’ll learn how to drive stick on my Mustang - no, that’s the last car you want to learn with lol.
Yeah I saw your pic.  Color me jealous!  Lots of Mustang fans around here and I'm among the ringleaders. :)

All the oldtimers are well aware my dreamcar is a 65 convertible.  Doesn't need to be fancy, just mostly put together and in working order.  I want a driver not a showcar.  This would do:




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