Elroy Jetson said...
Get off the treadmill.
Instead of buying a new car to impress people you don't like it sounds like that $40 000 would be better spent on a Caravan. Wifey would be stoked with a nice neat nearly new 2nd hand one. Most of them have the feeling of a 4 star hotel room. Plush as. If you wanted to inflate your ego you could even strut smugly passed the poor people camping in tents during a rain shower.
You've been talking about moving to the coast and travelling around in a combi sometime in the future.
Is the 40K inheritance money? It would be well spent if it brings you closer to the dream of living on the coast.
Well you could easily be living on the coast with wifey for a weekend by the end of this month. Then you could go again three weeks after.
There's no downside. When leaving the city the caravan has the F-You factor and you'll still be able to drink 5 bottles of wine and log onto seabreeze to start these multi-page threads.
Stop diddle dandling around the edges and jump in.
You are absolutely right. I think I found my car, doesn't tick all the boxes but it will solve my MLC. Been looking at cars endlessly today, I'm lucky I didn't crash. I would love to rock home in this tomorrow, but I don't have the guts.
The 40K is just money that I'm prepared to spend on a car, it's been sitting in the bank for a long time doing nothing. Procrastination is another issue I have.
http://www.carsales.com.au/private/details/maserati-3200gt-1999-12522456