General Car Conversation 2024 - part 1
#3226
Lexus Champion
Add in the fact it's all aluminum and I just simply don't care anymore lol! If it's severe weather with crazy wind then yeah I'll leave the nice cars inside and I still don't like freshly salted roads even with alum cars with every bolt coated.....rubs me the wrong way.
#3227
Lexus Fanatic
I have 2 cars. Point is, I don't want to drive a cheaper less enjoyable car to save on driving my nice car places. I bought it to drive it, not to park it in a garage. I drive it in the snow, rain, mud, wind, drive it in the city, park it on the street, park it at the airport. Its a car...if it gets damaged I'll repair ir or replace it. I don't see any point in having $120k car sitting in the garage and driving around in a beater lol
#3230
I used to care more about weather but after I got good at paint correction and ceramic washing consists of foam cannon and a leaf blower over 7 min now. I don't even touch the car anymore since near all water just falls off.
Add in the fact it's all aluminum and I just simply don't care anymore lol! If it's severe weather with crazy wind then yeah I'll leave the nice cars inside and I still don't like freshly salted roads even with alum cars with every bolt coated.....rubs me the wrong way.
Add in the fact it's all aluminum and I just simply don't care anymore lol! If it's severe weather with crazy wind then yeah I'll leave the nice cars inside and I still don't like freshly salted roads even with alum cars with every bolt coated.....rubs me the wrong way.
#3233
I have 2 cars. Point is, I don't want to drive a cheaper less enjoyable car to save on driving my nice car places. I bought it to drive it, not to park it in a garage. I drive it in the snow, rain, mud, wind, drive it in the city, park it on the street, park it at the airport. Its a car...if it gets damaged I'll repair ir or replace it. I don't see any point in having $120k car sitting in the garage and driving around in a beater lol
You may consider the Accord and F250 beaters. You don’t have to wear the dress slacks and tassel loafers everyday.
#3236
Lexus Test Driver
don't you still have the ES for that reason? oh and nice 'offroading' in the benz lol, i did that with the LS once to commemorate the return to stock ride height
#3237
Lexus Fanatic
You don’t have to wear the dress slacks and tassel loafers everyday.
Why spend all that money on a car to drive a lesser, less comfortable and enjoyable car the majority of the time? I just don't get it. its like having a nice room in your house you never use...I know people do that, my aunt and uncle used to sleep in their guest room beause their master bedroom was "too nice"...that doesn't compute for me.
Get a nice 3rd vehicle. Doesn’t have to be $120k.
I want both of the vehicles I do have to be both enjoyable, and functional...which they are. Thats why in order for me to replace one with an EV I need to be confident I can use it in the same way I use the ICE car it replaces.
#3239
Lexus Champion
My old ‘03 Yukon was a hell of a beater lol.
But it drove fine and the a/c froze you in 5 seconds.
I wish we still had it, but just no room anywhere. I wish we had the money for acreage, but right where we live. Then it really doesn’t matter.
But it drove fine and the a/c froze you in 5 seconds.
I wish we still had it, but just no room anywhere. I wish we had the money for acreage, but right where we live. Then it really doesn’t matter.
#3240
Lexus Fanatic
don't you still have the ES for that reason?
I would never have kept that old ES as a beater, I would never drive it because I want to drive my good cars.
oh and nice 'offroading' in the benz lol, i did that with the LS once to commemorate the return to stock ride height
And yes, I drive it in nasty salty weather:
Ever wonder what $2,000 worth of fireworks looks like stuffed in an S Class?
I don't have any pictures because it was so long ago, but yes our LS400 was up on top of this mountain, so was the LS430!
Last edited by SW17LS; 04-17-24 at 05:35 PM.